Monday International Sports News

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‘A’ team’s 3-dayer heading
towards draw
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka
The rain-affected second three-day match between
visiting Bangladesh A team and English county side Warwickshire is heading for a draw on the third and last day at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Sunday.
The first three-day match between touring Bangladesh A team and England Under-19 team also ended in a draw on Tuesday due to rain at the Hazelgrave Ground in Loughborough.
Replying to Bangladesh’s first innings total 252 for all,
Warwickshire resumed the first innings with overnight 144 for 4 in 42 overs and scored 342 for 9 in 86.2 overs when last report came in.
Nazmul Hossain claimed five wickets for 90 runs, while Rubel grabbed three for 76 runs.
Earlier, on Saturday, the second string Bangladesh team were all out for 252 in 71.5 overs in the first innings with two half century by captain Junaid Siddiqui (50) and wicket keeper Dhiman Ghosh (not out 50).
Naeem Islam (30), Rajin saleh (29), Raquibul Hasan (28) and Tamim Iqbal (27) were the other major contributors for Bangladesh A team.
N Tahir picked up three Bangladesh wickets for 49 runs while Miler, Gronewald and Daggett took two wickets each.


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Big win for Bangladesh
Staff correspondent
Bangladesh U-21 hockey team thrashed Oman 7-1 in their second Group B match in the 6th Men’s Junior Asia Cup Hockey in Hyderabad on Sunday. Bangladesh dominated the scene leading by 3-1 goals in the first half.
Captain Russell Mahmud Jimmy struck twice in the 17th and 63rd minutes, substitute Hasan Jubaer also found the net on two occasions on 50 and 56 minutes, while Rimon Kumar Ghosh, Krishna Kumar and Asaduzzaman Chandan scored one goal each for Bangladesh. Basim Rajab scored the consolation goal for the losers.
Bangladesh suffered a humiliating 0-8 goal defeat against strong South Korea in the inaugural match on Friday. The team will play their third and last match against Pakistan today.


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Open Squash
Staff Correspondent
Swapan Parvez of Bashundhara Group became champion in the premier league of the Delta Life Open Squash with a 3-1 victory over Bhola Lal Chowhan at the Dhaka Club squash court on Sunday.
Brig Gen Kamaluzzaman of Army Club became champion in the above-50 division with a straight 3-0 sets victory over Iftekhar Uddin Nawshad of Dhaka Club.
Youth and sports secretary Golam Mostafa Talukdar distributed the prizes among the winners as the chief guest.


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CA undecided on unwilling players
Cricinfo
Cricket Australia is yet to consider the position of players who refuse to tour Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. James Sutherland, the CA chief executive, said the board was currently interested in understanding the security issues and concerns and about whether the tournament will go ahead. ‘Then we get down to the decision for us as to whether we’re comfortable,’ Sutherland told the Age.
Australia have till August 15 to name their final squad for the Champions Trophy and Sutherland expects to have a better picture of the situation by then. ‘We have a high level of confidence in the consultants that have been engaged to work with ICC and the authorities in Pakistan. Now it is a matter of getting a better understanding in the coming couple of weeks from those consultants of how successful that implementation has been.’ Andrew Symonds, the Australian allrounder, has expressed his reservations over touring Pakistan, a country that in the past year has had a state of emergency imposed on it, suffered the assassination of a former prime minister, followed by riots and bomb attacks on two of its cities. But other players, including Shane Watson and Nathan Hauritz, have said they will be happy to play anywhere as long as they get to represent Australia.


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Corporate Soccer Cup
Staff Correspondent
United Leasing were the first team to seal a semi-final spot in the Cup group of the Ascent 5-A-Side Corporate Indoor Soccer Cup with a 3-0 victory over Rahimafrooz at the STM Hall at Uttara on Sunday.
In the Plate group, Apollo Hospitals also confirmed their final four berth with a facile 5-2 win over Aqua Paints.
In the other group matches on Sunday, Bitopi drew 2-2 with HSBC, Vision Group registered a 4-2 victory over IDLC and Banglalink thrashed Union Group 6-0.