{"id":77877,"date":"2022-05-06T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=77877"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:18:11","slug":"asian-games-hockey-qualifier-bangladesh-to-play-indonesia-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=77877","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games Hockey Qualifier: Bangladesh to play Indonesia on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sports Desk:<\/strong> Bangladesh National Hockey team will start their campaign in the nine-nation Men's Asian Games Qualifiers taking on Indonesia in the Thai capital Bangkok on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The match will kick-off at 10 am local time and 11 am Bangladesh time.<\/p>\n

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The Men's Asian Games Hockey Qualifier already began in Bangkok on Friday despite the Asian Games Authority postponed the Hangzhou Asian Games indefinitely amid a recent surge in Covid-19 cases in China, the host country of the\u00a0 games.<\/p>\n

The Hangzhou Asian Games scheduled for September 10-25 this year in China.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh team, which was placed in four-team Pool B of the Men's\u00a0 Asian Games Qualifiers with Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Singapore, will play Sri Lanka on May 10 and Singapore on May 12 in the remaining group matches.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh team, which reached Bangkok on Thursday to compete in the Asian Games Qualifiers scheduled May 6-15, made their first practice session the same day (Thursday) and made another one and half hour long practices Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) announced an 18-member final national squad to compete in both the Asian Games Qualifiers and the Men's Asia Cup Hockey, also naming two stand-by players.<\/p>\n

BHF named also two separate captains for two tournaments keeping the same squad intact.<\/p>\n

Rezaul Karim Babu will lead the Bangladesh team in the Asian Games Hockey Qualifier scheduled for May 6-15 in Bangkok while Khorshedur Rahman will captain the Bangladesh team in the Men's a Asia Cup Hockey in Jakarta from May 23 to June 1.<\/p>\n

Iman Gobinathan Krishnamurthy of Malaysia named as the head coach,\u00a0 Zahirul Islam Mitul as assistant coach and Mohammad\u00a0 Rafiul Haque as team leader of Bangladesh for both the tournaments..<\/p>\n

In the eight- nation Hero Men's Asia Cup Hockey, Bangladesh team also been placed in Pool B with Malaysia, Korea and Oman.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh will face Korea on May 23, Oman on May 24 and Malaysia on May 26.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Bangladesh qualified for the Men\u2019s Asia Cup as they clinched the fourth consecutive title of the Men\u2019s AHF Cup last month.<\/p>\n

Oman, who finished as runners-up in the meet, also qualified to play in the eight-nation Men's Asia Cup Hockey with auto-qualifiers\u2013 India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Korea, hosts Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh squad:<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers: Biplob Kujur, Abu Sayeed Nippon,<\/p>\n

Defenders: Khorshedur Rahman, Farhd Ahmed Shitul, Ashraful Islam, Mehedi Hasan, Rezaul Karim Babu, Shohanur Rahman Sabuj<\/p>\n

Midfielders: Sarwar Hossain, Roman Sarkar, Naim Uddin, Fazle Hossain Rabbi, Prince Lal Samanta.<\/p>\n

Forwards: Rasel Mahmud Jimmy, Milon Hossain, Pushkor Khisha Mimo, Arshad Hossain, Rakibul Hasan Rocky (Jr),<\/p>\n

Two stand by players are: Al Nahian Shuvo and Deen Islam Imon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports Desk: Bangladesh National Hockey team will start their campaign in the nine-nation Men’s Asian Games Qualifiers taking on Indonesia in the Thai capital Bangkok on Saturday. The match will kick-off at 10 am local time and 11 am Bangladesh time. The Men’s Asian Games Hockey Qualifier already began in Bangkok on Friday despite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":77878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n