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DHAKA, Sept. 14 (NsNewsWire) — A Bangladeshi national cricket team player has been temporarily suspended from cricketing activities for allegedly assaulting his housemaid, reports Xinhua. Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus told reporters on Sunday that “fast bowler Shahadat Hossain will remain suspended until housemaid torture accusations brought against him and his wife are resolved.” […]
Read MoreMELBOURNE, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) — Debutants Andrew Fekete and Cameron Bancroft are surprise selections in the Australian cricket team’s 15-man Test squad which is due to tour Bangladesh next month. Fekete, a 30-year-old Tasmanian fast bowler, has played just 30 first-class matches in his career, but impressed during the 2014/ 15 domestic season when he […]
Read MoreYANGON, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — Myanmar will take part in the 6th Asian Senior Chess Championship to be hosted by Iran from Sept.24 to Oct.2, according to Myanmar Chess Federation on Tuesday. Myint Han who has secured two international master norms and Myo Naing who has won two grand master norms in previous championships will […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Usain Bolt is back! The Jamaican, whose appearance in Beijing even was in doubt months before the world championships, stormed to defend his 100 meters title in 9.79 seconds on Sunday at Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest where he turned into an athletics phenomenon with two world-record Olympic wins in the […]
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Bangladesh to host the Australians for two Tests in October, the first series between the two nations since 2006, reports http://www.cricket.com.au Australia will head to Bangladesh in October for their first Test series against the Tigers in over nine years. The Bangladesh Cricket Board and Cricket Australia announced today that the Aussies will play a […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Aug. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenk, Russia’s four-time figure skating Olympic medalist, said here Friday that he believes Beijing will make a great Olympic Games in 2022. In the wake of Beijing’s win on Friday in the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Plushenk, who is in Beijing to cheer for the city’s […]
Read MoreBy Sportswriters Cao Jianjie and Lin HaoKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics to the city that hosted an “exceptional” Games in 2008 and promises to do even better this time. Beijing beat Almaty by 44 votes to 40, with one IOC member abstaining, to become […]
Read MoreBEIJING, July 30 (NsNewsWire) — Expectations are high in China as the vote on the 2022 Winter Olympics Games nears. “Good luck for Beijing, and I will pray for you,” said Li Maocuo, two days before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decides to give the host right to Beijing, or Almaty, Kazakhstan. The 22-year-old Li, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Xinhua) — The Beijing 2022 delegation has underlined the bid’s full alignment with the principles of the Olympic Agenda 2020 and stressed sustainability as one of the key pillars of the Games plans. Since the very inception of the bid, Beijing 2022 made its priority to design a Games that would […]
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