Dhaka, July 18 (UNB)- Thakurgaon District will play Rangpur District in the final match of the JFA U-14 National Women’s Football Championship’2019 at Bir Sherestha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Friday.

The final match will begin at 3:15 pm.
  
Thakurgaon reached to the final eliminating Mymensingh in penalty shootout (3-2) as the first semifinal between the two teams was locked 1-1 goals in the regulation time this afternoon.

Shathi Akter scored for Thakurgaon in the 36th minute while Ranjana leveled the margin for Mymesingh in the 44th minute (1-1). 

In penalty shootout, Ranjana, Jahanara, Israt scored for Thakurgaon while Hafsa and Jarina Manda netted for Mymensingh.

In day’s second semifinal match, Rangpur District defeated Magura District by 1-0 goal at the same venue. 

Liza Begum scored the match-winner for Rangpur in the 9th minute (1-0). 

Dhaka, July 18 (UNB) - Anju Jain, the coach of Bangladesh national women cricket team, is excited about Bangladesh emerging women team’s most-awaited tour to South Africa. The team will fly for South Africa on July 20.

“It’s really good to have tours of emerging team. It’ll help us find out our bench strength. We’ll play the Asia Cup soon. So this tour is very important for the players we have in the squad,” Anju told the media on Thursday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. 

In the emerging team, 4-5 girls got the chance for the first or second time. According to the coach, this tour will be a good opportunity for the new girls to prove their mettle for the national team. 

“We’ve finished a camp in Rajshahi and we also had an eye in the premier league, and we also had an eye in the premier league. Before finalising the 14-member, we’d shortlisted 28 girls. I hope they’ll do well in South Africa,” she further added. 

Bangladesh emerging team will play three ODIs and as many as T20 matches against their South African counterparts.

The ODIs will take place on July 23, 25 and 28 while the T20s will be held on July 28, August 1 and 4.

Dhaka, July 18 (UB) - The five-match one day series between hosts Bangladesh A team and touring Afghanistan begins on Friday (July 19) at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the port city of Chattogram.

The first three one-day matches will be held in Chattogram on July 19, 21 and 24 while the last two matches are scheduled to be held at BKSP ground in Savar on July 27 and 29.

Meanwhile, four national players -- Rubel Hossain, Anamul Haque, Sabbir Rahman and Mohammad Mithun -- are set to feature in the first unofficial ODI.

These four cricketers are the part of the national team which will fly for Sri Lanka on July 20 to play a three-match ODI series. 

Apart from Anamul, the other three were the part of Bangladesh team during their World Cup campaign but failed to make the XI in most of the matches. So it was important for them to have some match practice before touring to Sri Lanka. 

Anamul has been playing for A team from the start of the series against Afghanistan A. The right-handed top-order batsman struck a century in the first four-day game in Khulna, which might have prompted the selectors to consider him for the Sri Lanka tour in the absence of Liton Das. 

Before the ODI series, Bangladesh A lost two-match four-day series against Afghanistan as they managed to win the first game by a big margin of seven wickets and drew the last match in Chattogram.

Although the 2nd string Bangladesh team settled for a draw against visiting Afghanistan in the rain-interrupted 2nd four-day match in Chattogram , they lost the two-match four-day unofficial Test series 0-1.  

Earlier, Bangladesh A team suffered a seven-wicket defeat against the touring side in the first four-day unofficial Test at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna.

Dhaka, July 18 (UNB)- Bangladesh National Hockey team conceded a 1-3 goals defeat to the hosts and upper-ranked team Thailand in their last Pool A match of AHF Men's Asian Indoor Hockey 2019 at the Thai city of Chonburi on Thursday.

Thanop Kampanthong scored two goals and Warun Boonpea scored one for Thailand while Mainul Islam Koushik scored the consolation goal for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh now at the 4th place in 5-team Pool A point table securing 3 points from their four matches.

Bangladesh Squad: Rasel Mahmud Jimi, Mainul Islam Koushik, Fazle Rabbi Hossain, Ashim Gope (GK), Imran Hasan Pintu, Ashraful Islam, Farhad Ahmed Shitul (C), Khorshedur Rahman, Sarwar Hossain,  Roman Sarkar, Milon Hossain, Abu Sayed Nippon (GK).

Dhaka, July 18 (UNB) – The 23r round of the 13-team Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football will begin on Friday after recess of two days.

Dhaka Mohammedan will play NoFeL Sporting Club at 4 pm while Brothers Union will play against Muktijoddha SKC at 7 pm at Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) on the day.

After the 22nd round matches, Bashundhara Kings dominating the league as the only unbeaten team securing 58 points from 20 matches while defending champions Dhaka Abahani Limited followed them distantly with 51 points from 21 encounters.

Brother Union Club and Team BJMC are still in the relegation zone. Brothers Union collected 16 points from 20 matches while Team BJMC earned only 8 points from 21 matches.

Standings of BPL Football after 22nd round matches (Tabulating under match played, win, draw, loss, goal for, goal against, goal difference and points):

Team                             MP   W        D         L          F          A         D         P

Bashundhara Kings        20           19       1          0          50       11       +39     58

Dhaka Abahani                    21      17       0          4          50       24       +26     51      

Sheikh Russel                         20     13       3          4          31       16       +15     42      

Saif SC                                       20   12       5          3          33       17       +16     41                  

Arambagh                  21     8          3          10       22       26       -4        27      

Sheikh Jamal                          21     6          6          9          26       31       -5        24      

Chattagram Abahani         20       5          8          7          19       20       -1        23      

Muktijoddha SKC   20       5          7          8          22       28       -6        22      

Mohammedan Dhaka       20       5          5          10       24       34       -10      20      

Rahmatgonj MFS   20       4          7          9          25       41       -16      19      

NoFeL SC                     20    4          4          12       19       34       -15      16      

Brothers Union                   20       4          4          12       22       42       -20      16      

Team BJMC                21     1          5          15       12       31       -19      8