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UNB, Dhaka

Bangladesh suffered a humiliating 0-10 defeat against former World Cup and Olympic champions Pakistan in a place-deciding match of the 7th Men's Asia Cup Hockey Championship in Chennai on Saturday.

Pakistan will now play China today (Sunday) for the 5th position.

In the day's match, Pakistan dominated the first half 4-0 in a one-sided affair.

Waqas Shariff opened the scoring for Pakistan in the 8th minute while Yasir Islam, Tariq Aziz and Muhammad Imran made it 4-0 at the break. In the second half, Abbas Haider and Muhammad Arshad both struck twice while Muhammad Imran and Tariq Aziz scored one goal apiece to complete the winners' tally.

In the group phase, Bangladesh was placed 4th in the six-team Pool B after conceding a humiliating 0-8 goals defeat against Korea while Pakistan was placed third in Pool A after a 3-3 draw with Malaysia on Thursday.

Earlier, Bangladesh beat Thailand 13-0 and Sri Lanka 3-2 and lost to both India and China by 0-6 goals.

Meanwhile, in the other classification matches, China thrashed Hong Kong by 6-1 goals while Singapore outplayed Thailand by 4-0 goals.

UNB, Dhaka

Mahbub of Sheikh Russel KC emerged champion in the men's singles and Rumi of Abahani Limited clinched the women's singles title of the Sam Open Table Tennis Tournament winning their respective final on Saturday.

Mahbub beat Hamlet of Biman by 4-2 sets while Rumi crushed teammate Jayati by 4-0 sets in the finals played at the NSC Wooden Floor Gymnasium.

In the boys group (under-14), Palash of Palollic became champion defeating teammate Antu by 4-2 sets.

Information Secretary Didarul Anwar was present at the concluding ceremony as chief guest and distributed the prizes.

Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation president Mohammad Abu Solaiman Chowdhury was also present on the occasion.

AFP, Johannesburg

Pakistan have asked for rookie all- rounder Sohail Tanvir to replace Shoaib Akhtar for the Twenty20 world championships starting here on Tuesday.

Pace spearhead Akhtar, returning to the Pakistani team after missing the World Cup in March due to injury, was ordered back home after a bust-up with new-ball partner Mohammad Asif at practice here on Thursday.

Pakistan have picked 22-year-old Tanvir as Akhtar's replacement and have applied to the International Cricket Council for approval, team sources told AFP on Saturday.

Tanvir, who hails from Rawalpindi, has yet to play an international match but has taken 65 wickets in 19 first-class games over the last three years.

A left-arm seamer and left-handed batsman, Tanvir also has a first-class century to his credit and is regarded as one of Pakistan's most promising juniors.

Pakistan, drawn in group D of the preliminary league, open their campaign on Wednesday against Scotland in Durban before meeting arch-rivals India on Friday at the same venue.

UNB, Dhaka

The Muslim Institute beat Mirpur XI by 2-1 goals in a match of the Metropolis 3rd Division Football League at the Outer Stadium here on Saturday.

Mizanur Rahman scored both the goals for the winners in the 12th and 42nd minutes while Santosh neted the lone goal for the losers in the 49th minute.

In the day's other match at the Bir Shreshtha Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Stadium in Kamalapur, Lalbag SC played to a goal-less draw with Rahmatganj SC.

Alam Hossain of Rahmatganj SC received the marching order for commiting a serious foul.

UNB, Dhaka

Sports reporter of Dainik Sangram Aminul Haider Chowdhury Malu died of cardiac arrest on Friday night at his Fakirerpool residence in the city. He was 68.

Malu, a veteran sports journalist and life member of Bangladesh Sports Writers Association, was rushed to the Islami Bank Hospital when he fell sick Friday evening. Later, he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where atending physicians declared him dead.

The body of Malu, a lifelong bachelor, was taken to his village home at Gopalpur in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district on Friday night

He was buried at the family graveyard on Saturday morning after the namaz-e-janaza.

UNB, Dhaka

Bangladesh Sports Writers Association (BSWA) observed the 4th anniversary of its Welfare Fund at the conference room of the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) on Friday.

Welfare Fund chairman Selim Nazrul Haque presided over the function while member secretary Rana Hasan, BSWA president Sarwar Hossain and general secretary Aminul Haque Mallick spoke on the occasion.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) ad-hoc executive commitee member Ahmed Sajjadul Alam Bobby, CEO Mahmudur Rahman, former vice president Aziz Al Kaiser Tito, ex-general secretary Mahbub Anam, former joint secretary Reazuddin Al Mamoon, ex-member Khandaker Jamiluddin were, among others, present

BCB CEO Mahmudur Rahman, on behalf of the Board, handed over a cheque of Tk 200,000 as donation to the BSWA Welfare Fund at the function.