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Bangladesh National Cricket team lost to Kenyan National Cricket team by six wickets in their practice Twenty20 match at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Sunday.

Sent in to bat first, Bangladesh scored 116 off 16.3 overs.

In reply, Kenya reached the winning target making 117 for the loss of four wickets when they had just one ball to spare.

Opener Tamim Iqbal notched up the day's highest of 56 facing 73 deliveries. He hit eight boundaries and an over boundary.

Aftab Ahmed and Nadif Chowdhury were the other batsmen for Bangladesh who could reach double-digit figures scoring 17 and 12 runs respectively.

N Odhiambo of Kenya grabbed three wickets giving away 37 runs while LN Onyango, TM Odoyo, RL Bhunda chipped in with two wickets each for 19, 21 and 24 runs respectively.

Later, SteveTikolo cracked a windy 36 off 25 balls including five fours.

Besides, O Odoya, O Obuyo, T Mishra and TM Odoyo added 21, 16, 16 and 13 runs respectively to the Kenyan total.

Mohammad Ashraful bagged a pair of wickets in lieu of 19 runs while Farhad Reza and Syed Russel took one wicket each for 19 and 22 runs respectively.

UNB, Dhaka

The open trial for the under-19 national football team will begin on Friday at Kamalapur Bir Shreshtha Sheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Stadium.

The trial will be held in order to build the under-19 national football team ahead of the 2nd Indo- Bangla Games to be held in December.

The participants, born after January 1, 1989, asked to bring their two passport-size photographs with them on the day at 8am.

Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) trainer Mahbub Hossain Roxy will conduct the trial.

The BFF will only bear the trial expenses of those who will be finally selected.

UNB, Dhaka

In-form opener Nazimuddin played a spectacular knock to steer Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory over Scotland with four overs left in a warm-up match ahead of the Twenty20 World Championship at centurion in Pretoria Saturday.

Chasing a target of 146, Nazimuddin hammered an unbeaten 74 off 42 balls with nine fours and three sixes as the Bengal Tigers eased to the victory scoring 148 for 4 wickets in just 16 overs.

Earlier, coin-favoured Scotland bated first to post a handsome 145 for 8 in the allocated 20 overs with number three NS Poonia contributing 54 runs off 43 balls that featured four fours and two sixes.

Sports Reporter

Bangladesh National Hockey team finished third in the 7th Asia Cup Hockey Tournament when they came from behind and earned a 3-1 victory over Hong Kong team in a place-deciding match at Chennai in India on Sunday.

The first half was locked 1-1.

Ali Arif of Hong Kong put his team ahead using a penalty corner in the 25th minute of the first half.

Russel Mahmud of Bangladesh equalised the margin by a field goal in the 35th minute of the play.

After the breather Zahid Bin Talib of Bangladesh broke the deadlock by a field goal in the 46th minute of the game.

Russel Mahmud sealed the fate of the match (3-1) utilising a penalty corner in the 59th minute of the clash.

Russel Mahmud of Bangladesh was adjudged the Man of the Match for his outstanding performance.

UNB, Dhaka

The month-long residential training camp for the ensuing 2nd Indo-Bangla Games begins in the country today (Monday) starting with 318 selected participants from eight disciplines.

The disciplines are football, kabaddi, volleyball, swimming, athletics, shooting, basketball and kho kho.

The 2nd Indo-Bangla Games will be held in Dhaka in December.

Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) will bear the entire cost of the training camp.

Football, swimming and athletics camps will be held at the BKSP in Savar while the camps for other disciplines will be held in Dhaka.

Earlier, in the First Indo-Bangla Games in Kolkata last year, the competition was held in the same eight disciplines.

UNB, Dhaka

Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF) has selected 25 players for the initial training camp of the Indo-Bangla Games beginning today (Monday).

The selected players have been requested to report to the Volleyball Stadium at 3:00pm today.

The selected players are Imran Hossain, Prakash Chakrabarty, Mohammad Yunus Ali, Mohammad Abdul Matin, Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Kamal Mia, Mohammad Babul Akhter, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam and Mohammad Mafizur Rahman (Bangladesh Army), Ramesh Chandra Ghosh, Masudul Huq, Saiduzzaman, Mohammad Salehin, Biplob Duta (Bangladesh Air Force), Al Mamun Sheikh, Mohammad Shahjahan Ali, Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, Mohammad Nazrul Islam (Bangladesh Navy), Haider Ali, Atiqur Rahman (Bangladesh Rifles), Abul Kalam Azad, Mohammad Abdus Satar, Mohammad Jasim Uddin (Bangladesh Police), Mohammad Monir Hossain (Water Development Board), Mohammad Mamun (Power Development Board) and Sakibul Islam (Azad SC).

AP, London

Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood guided England to a seven-wicket win over India at Lord's on Saturday and a 4-3 win in the one-day international series.

The two hit an unbeaten 114 in a fourth-wicket stand that rescued England from a terrible start and passed the 187-run target set by India with 82 balls remaining.

The series had been tied 3-3 ahead of this final match after India won the last two games, when England allrounder Andrew Flintoff was sidelined with injury.

Flintoff played Saturday, a day after having a painkilling injection in his ankle, and took 3-45 and a catch. His final wicket was that of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the India No. 7 who topscored with 50.

England paceman Dimitri Mascarenhas also impressed in his seventh one-day match, taking his best ever figures of 3-23 in his 10 overs.

England's new-look openers of Mathew Prior and Luke Wright had a poor start in reply - dismissed without a run between them off the bowling of Rudra Pratap Singh.

Ian Bell was run out by Sachin Tendulkar for 36 when Pietersen called for a risky single. That ended a third-wicket stand of 63 in 14 overs when England moved from 11-2 to 74-3.

Collingwood joined Pietersen at the crease and the two guided England to victory.

Pietersen hit his 16th one-day 50 in his 61st game with a boundary through cover and finished unbeaten on 71. Collingwood reached his 17th one-day 50 soon after, with two runs off Piyush Chawla and was not out 64.

Wright, who made 50 in his debut match on Wednesday, was caught and bowled by Rudra Pratap Singh when he pulled a sharp bouncer in England's second over. Two balls later, Prior edged to wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni off the same bowler.

India won the toss and chose to bat at Lord's, before quickly regreting the decision. Flintoff and James Anderson combined to dismiss India's first four batsmen for 59 runs.