Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Prothistan (BKSP)green team and Bangladesh Police Archery Club emerged champions in the recurve and compound event of Bangladesh League held on Thursday at Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master Stadium in Tongi.
BKSP Green team secured 12 points after winning six out of seven matches to emerge champion in recurve division while Army Archery Club finished runners-up with ten points after winning five out of seven matches.
While Bangladesh Police Archery Club secured 12 points after winning six out of seven matches to emerge compound division champions while Border Guard Bangladesh finished runners-up with 12 points after winning six out of seven matches. Bangladesh Police Archery Club have become champions by virtue of securing better league points.
The national booters had their first training session today (Saturday) at Malaysia under the supervision of head coach Javier Cabrera.
The national booters participated in a team meeting, gym and swimming session at Team Hotel in the morning. They also held a one and half hour practice session at the Mini Shah Alam Stadium in Malaysia in the afternoon. All the players and officials of the team are well and fit and there is no injury problem in the team, according to a message received here from Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday afternoon.
Earlier, Bangladesh national football team reached Malaysia from Indonesia Thursday last to participate in the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 qualifiers scheduled to be held from June 8-14 in Malaysia.
Bangladesh which was placed at group E along with Bahrain Turkmenistan and Malaysia in the AFC Asian Cup, will play the first match against Bahrain on June 8, face against Turkmenistan on June 11 and meet host Malaysia on June 14.
Ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan was named as the Test captain of Bangladesh as it was expected.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon made the announcement today, while confirming Liton Das as vice-captain for the longer version format.
The announcement came two days after Mominul Haque decided to quit the Test captaincy following a lean batting streak that extended to seven straight single digit figures.
He could just reach double digit mark thrice in the last 15 innings, which gave the critics an opportunity to raise their voice high against him.
“A total of three players were in contention to be the captain of Test side,” Papon said after the board’s executive committee’s meeting held today at BCB’s headquarters at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.
“At first, we decided to announce a vice-captain alongside Test captain. So after an elaborate discussion, we have decided to appoint Shakib as the captain for this format. Liton Das will act as his deputy.”
Shakib will start leading the side for the third time from the upcoming West Indies series. Coincidentally in the last two times, he also began his captaincy career against West Indies.
Shakib firstly was appointed as the captain during Bangladesh’s tour in West Indies in 2009 after Mashrafe Bin Mortaza was injured on the first day of the first Test. That remains Mashrafe’s last Test.
Under Shakib’s captaincy, Bangladesh won that series to make a history as that was the Tigers’ first series victory on foreign soil.
Following a disastrous Zimbabwe tour in 2011, Shakib was stripped off the captaincy but back to being the captain again in 2018 when Mushfiqur Rahim stepped down.
At this phase, Shakib led the side till 2019 before being banned by ICC for two years for his failure to report the corrupt approaches from the bookies.
In those two terms, Shakib led the side in 14 matches and won just three while lost 11.
The board however was in dilemma to give him the captaincy since he was not quite regular in Test format of late. But Shakib ensured that from now on, he will play the longer version format as regular basis.
According to most of the board members, Shakib is the best option to lead the side in Test cricket if he plays this format regularly.
Mominul led the side in 17 matches and won three including a memorable Test win against New Zealand on Black Caps den earlier this year. Under his captaincy, Bangladesh lost 12 matches and drew two. But of late he was unable to motivate the side because of his serious bad patch.
Mominul was given Test captaincy in 2019 after Shakib Al Hasan was banned from the cricket.
SEOUL, June 2: Neymar scored two calmly taken penalties as Brazil fired a World Cup warning with a 5-1 thrashing of South Korea in Seoul on Thursday.
The Paris Saint-Germain forward scored his 72nd and 73rd goals for his country to close on Pele’s record of 77 for Brazil.
Neymar also upstaged South Korean captain Son Heung-min, the joint Premier League Golden Boot winner, who was kept quiet by a rampant Brazil at a packed Seoul World Cup Stadium.
Neymar’s status for the match had been up in the air after he suffered a right foot injury during training on Wednesday, but he was the star of the show on a night when Richarlison, Philippe Coutinho and Gabriel Jesus all scored.
Brazil, ranked number one in the FIFA rankings, fielded a strong side and looked dangerous almost from the opening seconds with a header by Thiago Silva wiped out by an offside call.
Brazil took advantage of poor South Korean defending to take the lead on seven minutes.
Alex Sandro was left open as he charged into the left side of the box and he set up Fred for a shot from close range. The Manchester United midfielder misfired, but the ball took a fortuitous bounce to Richarlison, whose scrappy effort deflected in off goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu.
Bordeaux forward Hwang Ui-jo levelled the score for the hosts on the half-hour mark, turning and firing it in off the left post with a smart finish.
But that goal came against the run of play and Brazil went ahead again on 42 minutes.
South Korean defender Lee Yong was called for a foul on Sandro inside the box and after a video review Neymar stepped up, calmly putting his penalty to the left of goalkeeper Kim.