Dhaka: The newly SAFF-winning women's football team received good news in the first meeting of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF). Sabina Khatun & gong was awarded a large sum of money by the BFF. It was announced at the end of the meeting today, Saturday, that the SAFF champion Bangladesh women’s team would be awarded Tk. 1.5 crore.

There were 28 agendas in the first meeting of the new BFF committee. However, everyone's eyes were on what reward the BFF would announce for the SAFF winners.

The Football Federation is awarding Tk. 1.5 crore to the Bangladesh women's football team for winning the SAFF championship for the second consecutive time. This decision was taken after the first meeting of the newly elected executive committee.

BFF's Media Committee Chairman Amirul Islam Babu made this announcement to the media after the meeting. He said, "The SAFF champion women's team will be awarded Tk. 1.5 crore on behalf of the BFF." We will present it to them very soon through a program.’

This money will be divided among all the members and the support staff in addition to the participating footballers. Amirul Islam Babu said, ‘Every member who was with this team will receive this BFF award. We will collect Tk. 1.5 crore soon. As soon as it is collected, we will give it to the women’s football team.’

After becoming champions, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a financial reward of Tk. 20 lakh. Then, Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan announced the payment of Tk. 1 crore on behalf of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

On October 30, the Bangladesh women’s team defeated the host Nepal team 2-1 in the final in Kathmandu.

Dhaka: 2 wickets for 120 runs. From there, they were all out for 143 runs. What can you say about that? Falling off a steep mountain! That's exactly what happened in Bangladesh's innings. And that was the death of dreams. That was a big loss. In response to Afghanistan's 235 runs, Bangladesh was bundled out for just 143 runs. The match was lost by 92 runs.

With this win in Sharjah, Afghanistan took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The second match of the series is on November 9, at the same ground.

In response to Afghanistan's 235 runs, Bangladesh did not start well. Opener Tanjid Hasan failed. He was the first victim of off-spinner Mohammad Ghazanfar. That Ghazanfar later destroyed the rest of Bangladesh's innings. Bangladesh's long batting line-up was cut short by the spin of Rashid Khan and Ghazanfar. Bangladesh could not give any answer to Afghanistan's spin in this match.

After losing opener Tanjid Hasan, Captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto and other opener Soumyo Sarkar pulled the team ahead in the second wicket partnership. Soumya Sarkar suffered from his old 'illness'. He was set out on the wicket. Soumya scored 33 runs in 45 balls. The way Mehedi Hasan Miraj was batting after getting promoted in the batting order, Afghanistan's 235 runs did not seem very far away. Captain Shanto's bat also showed signs of big runs. This pair showed the solution. The problem started here. As soon as this pair broke for 120 runs, the rest of Bangladesh's innings seemed to end in a flash!

From 120 for 2 wickets, Bangladesh suddenly went all out for 143 runs. The negative result is that Bangladesh added only 23 runs after losing the last 8 wickets. And the main architects of this destruction were young off-spinner Ghazanfar and experienced Rashid Khan. Ghazanfar bowled the best bowling of his career in this match. This youngster was the man of the match with 6 wickets for 26 runs in 6.3 overs. At the other end, Rashid Khan was also unplayable by then. He took 2 wickets for 28 runs in 8 overs.

After Nazmul Hossain Shanto returned to Mohammad Nabi for 47 runs off 68 balls, the entire Bangladesh innings seemed to end in the blink of an eye. The way Shanto got out while playing a harmless sweep of Nabi was easily called suicide.

Following the captain's path, it seemed that the rest of the team allowed themselves to be choked by Afghanistan's spin guillotine one by one!

Bangladesh has lost many matches in ODIs. But despite being in a good position, such a terrible batting collapse! This surprise will haunt the team for a long time!

Short score: 235 (in 49.3 overs, Hasmatullah Shahidi 52, Nabi 84, Sediqullah Atal 21, Naib 22, Taskin 4/53, Mustafiz 4/58) Bangladesh: 143/10 (in 34.3 overs, Soumya 33, Shanto 47, Miraj 28, Ghazanfar 6/26, Rashid Khan 2/28). Result: Afghanistan won by 92 runs. Man of the Match: Ghazanfar.

Shakib Al Hasan has completed almost 17 years of his career. However, he never faced any question about the bowling action in his entire career. Coming to the end of his career, questions arose about his bowling, said the popular cricket website Cricinfo.

The 37-year-old Shakib played a match for Surrey before the India series. Not a single ball action was called 'No' in the match. However, after the match, two umpires expressed their doubts.

Shakib played against Somerset in Surrey in September. As a result, he returned to the county after 13 years. The then world-class all-rounder played for Worcestershire in the county in 2011.

In that match he took 9 wickets in two innings. He bowled 63 overs comfortably. Immediately after this, there were many questions about his low bowling in the Chennai Test against India. Rumors were also spread at that time whether he was playing with an injury or not.

However, his bowling in that match on the soil of England was found suspicious by two umpires, Steve O'Nessie and David Milnes. As a result, he now has to go through the test of the England and Wales Cricket Board.

According to Cricinfo, Shakib is in talks to take a bowling test at an approved venue. Shakib's test is expected to be held in the next couple of weeks.

This is the first time Shakib has to take this test in his almost two decades long career. In the last two decades, Shakib has played 447 matches in international cricket, during which he has taken 712 international wickets across three formats. Out of which he picked up 246 wickets in 71 Tests.

This year's Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will start three days later on December 30. This is the first BPL after the country's political upheaval. Therefore, the Cricket Board (BCB) will not lack in efforts to keep it colorful. The final of the 7-team tournament is on February 7, 2025.

Chief adviser Nobel laureate Professor Dr. Mohammad Yunus is directly involved in the planning and design of this season.

The BCB is preparing an action plan around this BPL, which has been going on for more than a month. This time they want to give a different dimension to this franchise cricket. Chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus is also involved in the entire arrangement. This was said by BCB Director Nazmul Abedin Fahim.

Fahim spoke about the BPL in a video published on the social media page of the Bangladesh Cricket Board. He said, "We are trying to take this year's BPL to a different level. The Chief adviser, Professor Yunus, is himself involved in it, this is great news for us. Our sports adviser is very closely involved with the BPL.’

Fahim also said, ‘The power of the BPL is that there are not many occasions in our country that everyone is involved with. BPL is one such occasion.’

The BCB wants to make this year’s BPL festive. The BCB director said, ‘We want to spread the BPL all over the country. Not just sports, it can play a role in many other areas beyond sports. I can say this much, every district and upazila will organize various activities among the people, it can be organizing sports, organizing fairs, cultural activities; as long as the BPL continues, all the common people will be associated with the BPL. There will be branding efforts, it will be broadcast all over the world, you will see that a new Bangladesh has been born.’

At the same time, it has been learned that various events including concerts will be held as part of the BPL promotion.