On its journey across the globe, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Trophy made a stopover at the iconic Padma Multipurpose Bridge today.
Apart from an official photo session, there was however no programme as the trophy, which arrived at the early hour today, is on three-day visit in Bangladesh.
The trophy will visit Bangladesh home of cricket Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium tomorrow. It will be on display at SBNCS, Mirpur from 9am to 12pm for National Team, Women Team, current and former cricketers, cricket officials and organisers and members of the media.
The very next day on August 9 (Wednesday), the trophy will be at Bashundhra City Shopping Mall, Panthapath, Dhaka from 11am to 8pm for the general people.
GM Ziaur Rahman finished eleventh place in the 32nd Open International Chess Tournament of Cavala that concluded today (Friday) at Kavala of Greece, said a press release.
GM Ziaur Rahman earned 6.5 points out of nine games and tie for the seventh place, but he finished eleventh position after the tie-breaking system.
Besides, FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia became 24th with six points.
The eight or penultimate round games were held on Thursday last with FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia won against FM Nikhil Dixit of India and GM Ziaur Rahman split point with IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of India.
GM Ziaur Rahman and FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia secured
four points each after the sixth round games in the 32nd Open International
Chess Tournament of Cavala which is now being held at Kavala of Greece.
The sixth round games were held on Tuesday last night with GM Ziaur Rahman
won against WGM Antolak of Poland and FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia split point with
FM Seemann Jakub of Poland.
The recurve men and women qualification round
of World Archery Championship held in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday.
In the recurve men section, Ramkrishno Saha of Bangladesh finished 31st
scoring 658, Mohammad Hakim Ahmed Rubel finished 75th scoring 644 and Md
Sagar Islam finished 113th scoring 628 among the 167 archers.
In the women section, promising archer Diya Siddique finished 63rd among
the 140 archers after scoring 618.
In the recurve men team event, the Bangladesh archery team featuring
Ramkrishno Saha, Mohammad Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Md Sagor Islam finished 35th
among the forty seven teams after scoring 1930 while in the recurve mixed
team event Bangladesh archery team comprising Ramkrishno Saham and Diya
Siddique finished 27th among the fifty seven teams after scoring 1276.
Bangladesh National archery team comprises six archers (four men and two
women) are participating in seven events of the championship.
Earlier on Sunday last, a nine-member Bangladesh archery team left Dhaka for
Germany to participate in the World Archery Championship 2023 to be held in
Berlin from July 31 to August 6.
Bangladesh National Archery team comprises one manager, one head coach, one
coach and six archers (four men and two women) and it will compete in
seven events.
Participating events of Bangladesh are recurve men team, recurve men
singles, recurve women singles, recurve mixed doubles, compound men
singles, compound women singles and compound mixed doubles.