DHAKA: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday received the government`s clearance to send the national team to Bangladesh for the Asia Cup and ICC World Twenty20. "Pakistan will be going to Bangladesh for these two important events," a senior PCB official told PTI.Pakistan had

DHAKA: The Indian football team will play an international friendly match against Bangladesh on March 5 in Goa of India.The match, which will be India`s first international friendly of the year, is slated to be played at the Nehru Stadium at Fatorda, in Margao.March 5 is a FIFA friendly

DHAKA: Sri Lanka won the first Twenty20 match beating Bangladesh by only two runs in Chittagong on Tuesday.  Bangladesh scored 166 runs for seven after the stipulated over at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.  Earlier the visitors scored 168 runs for seven in the 20-over match. MDKJ Perera

DHAKA: Sri Lanka scored 62 runs for two after the over-7 in their first Twenty20 match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Tuesday.  Mashrafe Mortaza bagged the vital wicket of Dilshan while Shakib got the wicket of Chandimal. Winning the toss, Bangladesh earlier invited

DHAKA: World’s number one all-rounder Shakib al Hasan has been retained by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 2.8 crore at IPL 2014 auctions in Bangalore Wednesday.His base price has been fixed for Rs 1 crore.Earlier, Shakib played two seasons for Kolkaka Knight Riders on 2011 and 2012 and

DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to play its first T20 against Sri Lanka t the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Wednesday afternoon. The first match of the shortest format of the game will begin at 5:00pm.The two-match series will also be a battle between the top-ranked T20 team Sri

DHAKA: The Indian Primer League (IPL) 2014 will either be jointly hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bangladesh and India or will be shifted entirely to South Africa.The IPL franchise owners and related officials got into an emergency meeting on Tuesday evening in Bangalore to

DHAKA: A ban on India’s Olympic Association (IOA) has been lifted, allowing the country to return to the Olympic fold, officials say.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended India for electing officials accused of corruption in 2012, in breach of the Olympic charter.But on

DHAKA: State Minister for Ministry of Youth and Sports Biren Sikder visited Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium of Chittagong ahead of the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup.He visited the stadium, which is one of the main venues of the T20 World Cup, in the morning and also practice ground the

DHAKA: Six prominent "Indian capped" players, including one who is part of the current team, are likely to face the heat for their alleged roles in fixing scandal. This after their names cropping up in the report filed before the Supreme Court by a committee probing the IPL betting and

DHAKA: The BCB president, Nazmul Hassan, has said that he has signed members` participation agreements (MPA) for four tours with the BCCI, which includes Bangladesh`s maiden Test tour to India in 2016. The other significant agreement, although in principle, has been with Cricket Australia

DHAKA: Tamim Iqbal has resigned as Bangladesh`s vice-captain to focus more on his batting. He informed the BCB through a letter to Akram Khan, the chairman of the cricket operations committee.The board had appointed him as Mushfiqur Rahim`s deputy for the series against Sri Lanka four

DHAKA: Mashrafe Mortaza was named Bangladesh`s captain for the two Twenty20s against Sri Lanka. He will lead in place of Mushfiqur Rahim, who sustained a finger injury during the second Test.BCB president Nazmul Hassan spoke to a few directors of the board from Singapore to come to the

DHAKA: The 10th Hosaf President Cup Golf Tournament began at Savar Golf Club on Saturday morning.The General Officer Commanding of the ninth infantry Major General Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, also Senior Vice-President of the golf club, inaugurated the two-week long tournament.Moreover,

DHAKA: The ICC Board has gained the necessary votes to approve the proposed changes relating to the governance, competition and financial models of the organization, according to a press release issued after its meeting in Singapore. Sri Lanka Cricket and the PCB were the only two Full

DHAKA: Although the pitch wasn’t quite straightforward but the top order of Bangladesh has stood up and added to the tumult of runs in the second innings against Sri Lanka at Zahur Ahmed Stadium of Chittagong Saturday.The match was drawn as Tigers managed to score 271 runs losing three

DHAKA: The 22nd Winter Olympics opened with a spectacular ceremony in the Russian resort city of Sochi. Athletes from 87 nations paraded before 40,000 people in the Fisht Stadium before president Vladimir Putin declared the Games open, reports BBC. The Olympic flame was lit by Russian

CHITTAGONG: The players of Sri Lanka desire to win the second test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong after beating the first one at Dhaka.The opener batsman of Sri Lanka cricket team Kaushal Silva who made a maiden century against Bangladesh team at Dhaka test match hopes that

DHAKA: Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will leave at the end of this season.The 32-year-old Serbia defender, whose contract expires in the summer, made his United debut in 2006.He told United`s website:  "I`m not considering staying in England as the only club I ever wanted to

DHAKA: A 28-year-old man in eastern India suspected of siphoning off a million rupees ($16,000) from the bank account of retired cricketing star V V S Laxman has been arrested by local police.Laxman, who retired from international cricket in 2012, lodged a police complaint at the weekend