Players

Cricket coaches in Mymensingh struggling to make ends meet since pandemic

Continuing to brave the blows delivered by the Covid-19 pandemic that has lasted over two years, cricket coaching academies in Mymensingh are still struggling to impart their expertise.

Australia board threatens players with unemployment

Australia's cricket board has warned players will not be given alternative contracts if they fail to agree to a new collective bargaining agreement in an escalation of a protracted and increasingly bitter pay dispute.

Football: Argentine games suspended as players strike

Footballers in Argentina pushed ahead with a strike on Friday over unpaid wages, forcing the year's first league games to be suspended despite a $22 million government payout, officials said.

Cricket: Hayden, Boon inducted into Australia Hall of Fame

Test greats David Boon, Matthew Hayden and the late Betty Wilson will be inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame this week, Cricket Australia said on Sunday.

Cricket: Jimmy Adams appointed new West Indies director

West Indies turned to former batsman Jimmy Adams to help rebuild the side as he was named their new director of cricket on Tuesday after signing a three-year deal.

Athar still not with women's team

Bangladesh's women's team is set to begin their five-match ODI series against South Africa in Cox's Bazar tomorrow and yet it's still not confirmed as to whether the team's chief selector and the tour manager, Athar Ali Khan, will be present in Bangladesh to observe the tour.

National Handball / Big win for Faridpur

Faridpur registered a massive 20-9 goal win over Bagerhat in the Exim Bank 26th National Men's Handball Championship at the Shaheed captain Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium yesterday.

Taijul, Hom in for T20Is

Tanbir Haydar is the only player from the ODI squad who has not found a place in the Bangladesh team for the first T20I against New Zealand, set to take place in Napier on January 3.

Pilot in footballers' crash in Colombia 'was not trained properly'

The pilot in the plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia on a Bolivian charter including footballers from Brazil had not flown enough hours to pilot commercial flights, a copilot's attorney said Saturday.

June 6, 2016
June 6, 2016

Chandan, Nazirul suspended

Mohammedan defender Asaduzzaman Khan Chandan and Wari Club official Nazirul Islam were each handed one-match suspensions for separate incidents of unruly behaviour during their respective clubs' Premier Division Hockey League encounters recently.

May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016

All-clear for Usha's Pakistani players

Usha Krira Chakra retreat from their plan of appeal to the league committee of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation to halt the ongoing Premier Division League after getting clearance from the Special Branch (SB) of Police for bringing five Pakistani players.

May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016

League promises excitement

The participation of Abahani, Mohammedan SC, Usha KC, Dhaka Mariner Youngs Club and all the other established clubs helped produce a healthy and competitive Club Cup after 45 months. Now those clubs are all lining up for another battle in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Hockey League.

December 19, 2015
December 19, 2015

Fixed price for Shakib, Tamim of Bangladesh at PSL draft

Bangladesh’s ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and his teammates Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mustafizur Rahman and others will be selected at a fixed price at the player draft of Pakistan Super League (PSL) on December 21 and 22.

October 31, 2015
October 31, 2015

Unique auction for two new IPL teams

The blueprint for the sale of two new franchises and 50-plus players in IPL 2015 - including those from Chennai and Rajasthan - is ready, waiting to receive the required ratification at the BCCI's Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month.

October 17, 2015
October 17, 2015

'ICL powerless', Cairns told Adams

Chris Cairns allegedly told the New Zealand players that he attempted to recruit to his match-fixing operation that the Indian Cricket League (ICL) was powerless to stop their actions.

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