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As soon as Abdullah Hel Baki pulled his trigger on the 51st shot, he knew he had done quite a bit of damage to his chances of

The celebrations did not seem to end after the Bangladesh under-23 football team defeated Qatar 1-0 in their final group stage encounter of the Asian Games at the Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium in Jakarta yesterday.

The 18th Asian Games got off to a glorious start in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta yesterday amid national pride, calls for international camaraderie and a bit of theatrics, with the country's president Joko Widodo at the centre of the action.

Most of the teams representing Bangladesh for the Asian Games in Indonesia are already in either Jakarta or Palembang, the two different host cities on two separate islands, as the multisport event opens today.

The curtain on the 18th Asian Games, the world's second-largest multisport event, will rise at the iconic Gelora Bung Karo Stadium in Jakarta today.

The Bangladesh under-23 football team kept their hopes of securing qualification for the second round of the Asian Games alive with a 1-1 draw against Thailand in their second Group B match at the Pakansari Stadium yesterday.

The Bangladesh Olympic football team will look to bounce back from a 3-0 defeat to Uzbekistan when they take on their Thai counterparts in their second match of Group B of the Asian Games today.

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The Bangladesh under-23 football team opened their Asian Games campaign with a 3-0 defeat against their Uzbekistan counterparts at the Pakansari Stadium in Bogor, Indonesia yesterday.

With the 18th Asian Games on the doorstep, co-hosts Jakarta is gearing up for the second-largest multi-sport event after the

It was Bangalore 2016 all over again, this time in Guyana, as Bangladesh snatched a three-run defeat from the jaws of victory in the second one-day international against the West Indies yesterday.

With the first round of fixtures and about one third of the games done and dusted, it is perhaps time to have a look at what transpired over the last 15 days and what it means in the greater context of the sport.

Shamsunnahar was not the centre of attention when the SAFF Under-15 Women's Championship got underway in Dhaka a week ago.

Akhter Hossain fell in love with tennis at a very early age, playing for fun at the Jamalpur Officers' Club. He was playing both cricket

For someone whose first vivid memory of football was the Italia 90 and whose lasting impression from that World Cup was Salvatore Schillaci's euphoric goal-scoring celebrations, it is hard to take in the fact that Italy will not be part of next year's World Cup in Russia.

Thirty two years is a long time. It's a long time for a game to go through a sea-change and get a new world order in place.

Former England forward Gary Lineker once ruefully retorted that 'football is a simple game, 22 men chase a ball around for 90 minutes

On the penultimate night of the Football For Friendship (F4F) programme in Saint Petersburg, Russia, there was a sudden

Golam Rabbi had never been out of the country before. The class-VI student from Narayanganj had, in fact, never stayed out of his

The 4th Roll Ball World Cup in Dhaka has so far been a big congregation of countries; and though this congregation has come as a