Spain’s win at Euro 2012 – their third consecutive major tournament win – has sparked off all kinds of comparisons in the bar room debate over the best international team of all time. Of course, such conversations have a strong subjective component, but it is hard to formulate arguments against the facts – and a [...]
To be as driven to succeed as this England side are under the stewardship of Andy Flower is quite an advantage in a NatWest Series which essentially means very little and where desire has to come from within. That is enough for England to start as strong favourites in the final match against Australia at [...]
Independent research that may have swayed the ICC’s executive board into approving mandatory use of the DRS was not shown at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur, despite being pivotal in convincing both the cricket committee and the chief executives’ committee of the technology’s accuracy. Wally Edwards, the Cricket Australia chairman, has revealed that the research [...]
Sri Lanka took a significant step in their attempt to thwart Pakistan from levelling this rain-affected series, through a combination of dogged batting on a testing pitch, a fair amount of luck, and aggression. Pakistan contributed much to that luck through sloppy fielding, when an urgent quest for wickets was the need of the hour [...]
Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after undergoing surgery on the severe eye injury he sustained on the opening day against Somerset. Boucher admitted he faces an “uncertain recovery” after his three-hour operation on Monday evening. Boucher had to leave the field at the end of the 46th over of Somerset’s innings on Monday [...]
The health and lives of construction workers in the capital are endangered by the failure of developers to comply with the Bangladesh National Building Code 2006 and of Rajuk to ensure that the provisions of the Code are enforced. Visits to several construction sites in different parts of the capital uncovered widespread violation of the [...]
Economists, business and consumer rights leaders on Monday demanded that the government should take proper steps to crack down syndicates to keep the prices of essential commodities within the purchasing capacity of consumers in the month of Ramadan. At a dialogue with commerce minister GM Quader, they also suggested the government to strengthen Trading Corporation [...]
A joint drug investigation in Hong Kong hauled a record cocaine shipment worth an estimated street value of U.S. $98 million, customs officials said. The Customs Drug Investigation Bureau of Hong Kong seized 649 kilograms (about 1,425 pounds) of cocaine from a shipping container that arrived from Ecuador, Lee Cheung-wing, the head of the Custom [...]
An indefinite strike by bus owners and workers in all routes of the district entered the second day on Tuesday, causing immense sufferings to the commuters. The bus workers and owners called the indefinite strike across the district from Monday morning protesting the death of one of their fellows in a clash with students on [...]
Chinese police intercepted more than 3,600 crocodiles last week that were destined for dinner plates in the country’s Guangdong province. The Siamese crocodiles were seized Tuesday in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region after they crossed over the China-Vietnam border, according to reports in the Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency. Officials believe they were headed for [...]