Sachin Tendulkar completed 30,000 runs in international career and he slammed his 43rd century during the India-Sri Lanka first Test. Sachin slammed 43rd century in his fight to save the first Test against Sri Lanka in the final day.
England county cricket team Worcestershire have signed Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan as their overseas player for 2010 season. But the 22-year-old, rated the world's best one day all-rounder according to the ICC ranking list, will not be available until mid-July.
Commonwealth gold medallist shooter Asif Hossain Khan is soul-searching after a poor performance in the South Asian Games' preparation that eventually forced him out of the Asian Air Gun Championship squad.
Needing six runs off the last ball, Biman's last batsman Talha Jubair stepped out but could manage only a boundary as title aspirants Mohammedan survived the scare to post an exciting one-run victory to keep their winning run intact in the Premier Division Cricket League yesterday.
FIFA handed Argentina coach Diego Maradona a two-month ban from all soccer activities on Sunday for his expletive-filled rants after his team qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Maradona will miss Argentina's exhibition against the Czech Republic scheduled for Dec. 16, but he avoided sanctions that would have kept him from coaching at next year's World Cup in South Africa. He also was fined $24,250.
Mohammad Ashraful smashed a century to steal the show of six-sixes-in-an-over by Naeem Islam and steer Mohammedan to a crucial three-wicket victory over Gazi Tanks in the Dhaka Premier League on Friday. In another match, an unbeaten innings of 90 by all-rounder Mohammad Rafique helped Abahani overcome a batting collapse to record, what looked very comfortable in the end, a 92-run win over CSS.
All-rounder Naeem Islam achieved a rare feat when he struck six sixes in an over in the Dhaka Premier League on Friday to set a unique record in Bangladesh’s domestic cricket. Naeem, who was playing for Gazi Tanks, presented the nightmare to Mohammedan leg-spinner Marshall Ayub in the 49th over of the innings hitting all the sixes over the square leg or mid-wicket boundaries.
The Bangladesh cricket team will have a busy schedule next year as revealed by the home schedules released by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday. The season will start with the tri-nation tournament involving India and Sri Lanka in January.
Bangla-desh has thanked co-hosts India and Sri Lanka for allowing them to play all their six group matches of the World Cup 2011 at home. ‘We are really grateful to them [India and Sri Lanka]. Without their co-operation it would not have been possible,’ AHM Mustafa Kamal, the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Bangladesh Football Federation has sacked Brazilian Edson Silva Dido as the head coach of the national football team. Dido has been replaced by Shahidur Rahman Shantoo, with Saiful Bari Tito being his deputy. Satyajit Das Rupu will helm the team as manager. The BFF at an emergency meeting of the executive committee made the decision. The team picked up by Dido has been dissolved as well and the training camp has been suspended.
