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It was a match that both the teams started with the five-match series tied at 1-1 and the head-to-head record was also even balanced with each of them winning 22 matches. So it was a matter for debate which of the two sides have improved most over the last few years.
   With a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, Bangladesh perhaps now laid the debate to rest. They have won all of their last four one-day series against Zimbabwe and were clear favourites before the current series started.
   Still skipper Sakib al Hasan and coach Jamie Siddons were cautious in choosing words over the status of their side in the series. Both of them had dubbed it a 50-50 series and the results of the opening two matches showed that they were indeed correct in their assessment.
   But hardly there was anyone in the Bangladesh tent who had believed the coach and captain. Everybody was talking about a clean sweep victory and said if we can beat them 4-1 at their home, then why we should not win 5-0 here.
   Even when Zimbabwe won the first match convincingly they did not rule out the chance of 4-1 series victory. The good thing for Bangladesh is that nobody have lost their confidence in the team and that was evident in the result of second match, which they won with more than 20 overs to spare.
   What was needed for them was a similarly comprehensive win in the third match to show that it did not come as fluke and they are really a better side than their African rivals. And they did it finally which also gave them a better head-to-head record for the first time against a full ICC member nation.
   Bangladesh had begun their rivalries against Zimbabwe way back in 1980s when they were eliminated twice from the semi-finals of the ICC Trophy by the Africans. Since then Bangladesh have only trailed them and had to wait until 2004 to record their first win.
   The win came after 12 defeats which meant Zimbabwe were far ahead of them in the record book. But in the last few years the scenario has totally changed as Bangladesh have won as many as 22 matches and lost only 10.
   The exodus of some world-class players from the Zimbabwe team may have contributed to Bangladesh’s overwhelming success. But one cannot take away Bangladesh’s glory by simply saying it.
   Despite the exodus, Zimbabwe had used their time to build a team which has now come of age.
   In contrast, Bangladesh had to go through many chopping and changing and it was evident by the fact that apart from Mohammad Ashraful and Mashrafee bin Murtaza, none of the current Bangladeshi players were a part of the squad that won their first series against Zimbabwe in 2005.
   Some of the crucial players like Sakib al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim were not even in the Bangladesh Under-19 team during the series.
   It proved one thing…Bangladesh has created a new generation of cricketers who are way better than some of their predecessors, who have never won against even a team like Zimbabwe.

Sheikh Russell registered their second consecutive victory in the Citycell Bangladesh League with 3-1 drubbing of Muktijoddha Sangsad KC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday.
   Muktijoddha, who have been struggling this season, were reduced to 10 men in the 65th minute when their goalkeeper Tarek was sent off after he had brought down Sheikh Russell’s Moroccan midfielder Samir Omari inside the box that resulted in a penalty.
   Young striker Md Rony continued his impressive form as he scored the first two goals to add to his previous two.
   Muktijoddha, who had lost to Brothers Union earlier, had no answer to the attacking instincts of Sheikh Russell and were on the back-foot from the very beginning.
   They rarely invaded their opposition defence territory as Sheikh Russell, inspired by their Ghanaian attacker Moro Mohammed, carried out swift counter-attacks.
   With Mobarak regularly sneaking through the flanks and Abdullah Parvez and Samir Omari arriving perfect in the midfield Russell stamped their authority.
   Sheikh Russell took the lead in the 15th minute when Mobrak dashed down the right flank and curved a perfect cross to Samir Omari who ran forward before picking out Rony with a neat chip and the tall forward made no mistake to head the ball home.
   Rony would have made it 2-0 in the 26th minute as he found Muktijoddha keeper Tarek alone after a combined attack but Tarek pulled off a good reflex save.
   However, Rony made amends for his failure in the 37th minute with a opportunistic strike.
   Moro Mohammed broke the defence line after receiving a long pass from Abdullah Parvez but an outrushing Tarek managed to close the gap and as the Ghanaian lost control of the ball an unmarked Rony blasted it into the net with an angular shot from the six-yard box.
   Twenty minutes after the break Muktijoddha were reduced to 10 men and they also conceded the third. Samir Omari galloped through the midfield on a Rony through pass and an advancing Tarek finding no way to stop the Moroccan brought him down in the box.
   Referee Azad Rahman flashed the red card to Tarek and Omari sent substitute keeper Nizam the wrong way to score the third goal for his team.
   Sheikh Russell thought to conserve their energy in the remaining minutes but skipper Aminul Islam’s mistake allowed Muktijoddha to pull a goal back in the 72nd minute.
   He fouled Muktijoddha winger Rony Islam in the box and Liberian forward Eugene Gray converted the spot-kick.

Michael Hussey top-scored with an unbeaten 81 as Australia posted 229-5 in the third one-day international against India here on Saturday.
   Hussey, 34, hit his third half-century of the series and shared 56 runs with captain Ricky Ponting (59) after the world champions won the toss and elected to bat on a slow track at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium.
   Opener Shane Watson made up for his disappointing batting in the first two matches, making a fine 41 off 59 balls with five fours in the day-night encounter.
   Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja impressed the most among the bowlers on the tricky track, picking 2-41 off nine overs.
   The seven-match series is tied 1-1 after India won the second match at Nagpur by 99 runs. Australia had clinched the opener at Vadodara by four runs. The visitors were off to a steady start with Ponting — opening the innings in the absence of the injured Tim Paine — putting on 72 runs with Watson off 98 balls.
   The Australian captain, taking the opener’s role for only the second time in his 327-match one-day cricket career, completed his 72nd one-day half-century off 74 balls before falling to Jadeja.
   Ponting tried to clip the spinner across the line but the ball hit the base of the pads right in front of the stumps. He hit four fours in his measured 92-ball knock.
   Hussey, who scored 73 at Vadodara and followed it up with a 53-run knock at Nagpur, accumulated his runs through some hard running between the wickets. He hit just three fours and one six, that too in the 50th over.
   India need to score at 4.6 runs an over if they are to win the match and go 2-1 up in the series.

England team director Andy Flower believes Kevin Pietersen is in the right frame of mind to overpower South Africa in the forthcoming Test series.
   Pietersen will stay in England to complete his recovery from an Achilles injury when England fly to Bloemfontein on Saturday for the start of the tour.
   But the Hampshire batsman will join his England team-mates on November 9 - in time for the first one-day international.
   After admitting he had fallen out of love with cricket prior to England’s Ashes victory over Australia this year, Pietersen is rediscovering his passion for the sport.
   He batted for the first time in three months on Friday in a training session at Lord’s and Flower said: ‘He’s still got a bit of rehab work to do to get up to speed.
   ‘Hopefully he’ll be ok to play in the warm-up game against South Africa A and then ready to go at the start of the one-day series.
   ‘That is what we are targeting. The infection has slowed everything up otherwise he would have been back during the English summer.
   ‘But he brings a superb record, flair, confidence and the ability to counter attack.
   ‘The fact that we won the Ashes with limited contributions from the two big stars (Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff) is a good thing for the unit and the country’s cricket and when they come back that adds strength and power. That’s a good thing.
   ‘Pietersen’s been pushing himself running. He’ll just love getting a bat in his hands again and hitting the ball. That’s what he loves doing. He’s chomping at the bit to get going.
   ‘He is important to us. He’s a world-class player who has a special talent and a special confidence. He is a huge boon for us.’
   Pietersen was given a hard time by spectators on his last visit to his native South Africa in an England shirt but Flower believes the 29-year-old has won over his critics.
   ‘This time probably he will have the respect from the South African public,’ Flower said.
   ‘They love sport and cricket and I expect they will treat him with respect.’
   However, Flower expects Jonathan Trott to receive a more hostile reception after being criticised by former England captain Michael Vaughan.
   Vaughan claimed Trott, who made a century in his first Ashes-winning Test at the Oval this summer, was celebrating with South African players after they beat England at Edgbaston in 2008.
   Flower said: ‘I saw Trotty on Wednesday and he knew stuff was coming out in the papers and he was comfortable about it. He said ‘Look, I’ve got a clear conscience about it. I was caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time’. There was nothing malicious about it at all and I agree with him and believe him.
   ‘But they (the South African fans) will have seen his performance at the Oval against Australia. I am sure he will get a bit of a hostile reception.’
   Flower, who was born in Cape Town and represented Zimbabwe, insisted he had no problem with Pietersen and Trott, born and bred in South Africa, facing their former countrymen.
   He said: ‘The England teams historically have had people like Allan Lamb, Tony Greig and Graeme Hick. I don’t see it being any different to that.
   ‘From watching Trott in preparation for the Oval Test and in the Test itself he is 100 percent committed to this team and this country. I am quite happy with the situation.
   ‘That’s the way it is and has been for quite a long time. I am quite comfortable with the commitment shown by the guys.’

Australia’s pace spearhead Brett Lee was Friday ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series against India, dealing a fresh blow to the injury-ravaged tourists.
   Lee, 32, will fly home to undergo rehabilitation for an elbow injury that forced him to sit out the second one-day international at Nagpur. He was also unable to bowl his full quota of overs in the opener at Vadodara.
   ‘Lee’s elbow injury has not responded as well to treatment and he will fly back home,’ Australia’s media manager Lachy Patterson told AFP.
   ‘He will consult an elbow specialist and work out the best way possible to make a recovery.’
   The injury is the latest setback for Lee, Australia’s leading fast bowler with 324 wickets from 186 one-day internationals.
   The bowler also missed the Ashes in England due to fitness problems but regained his form and rhythm during the subsequent Champions Trophy in South Africa.
   With the current seven-match series tied at 1-1, the Australians are down to the bare bones for the third match at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Saturday.
   All-rounder James Hopes (hamstring) and wicketkeeper Tim Paine (finger) have already been ruled out of the match, forcing the visitors to call up New South Wales’ Moises Henriques and South Australian Graham Manou.
   Australian captain Ricky Ponting said earlier he was banking on the replacements to deliver the goods in the day-night encounter here.
   ‘Hopes did bowl at the nets and he is almost OK but we don’t want to take any chances. Manou is young but the good thing is that he has a fair bit of experience, having played in the Ashes against England,’ Ponting said.
   Australia won the first match of the series by four runs, before crashing to a heavy defeat in Nagpur on Wednesday after India piled up a mammoth 354-7 and bowled out the tourists for 255.
   ‘Injuries cost us a little more than we expected in Nagpur,’ Ponting said.
   ‘Lee is one guy who bowls well at the death but it also depends on who are you bowling at because a player like (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni can be very dangerous in the last few overs.’
   Dhoni, the Indian captain, smashed 124 off 107 balls to set up a spectacular win for the home side at Nagpur.
   The fourth match will be played in Mohali on Monday.

Bangladesh U-19 football team face Asian powerhouse South Korea in the opening Group E match of the AFC U-19 Championship at the Royal Thai Stadium in Bangkok at 5:30pm today.
   Bangladesh’s head coach Shafiqul Islam Manik was thinking of a good fight. ‘Korea are one of the top ranked teams in Asia whereas we are nearly at the bottom. We will try to play good football and we cannot predict the result,’ said Manik.
   Bangladesh skipper Shahed echoed the same view. ‘We will play our best football. If we can play our game then I think we can achieve a better result. Most importantly we don’t have any injury problems,’ said Shahed.
   Korean coach Cho Dong-hyun, however, was serious. ‘We don’t have any idea about Bangladesh. Also nobody knows what the result will be. We played four practice matches against our senior teams before coming here…we won one, lost one and drew two,’ said Cho.

The visiting England U-19 cricket team tasted their first victory against Bangladesh U-19 side when they defeated the hosts by five wickets in the fifth one-dayer of the seven-match series at the Fatullah stadium on Saturday.
   Opting to bat first, Bangladesh scored 196 runs before the visitors rattled off the target making 197 for five with 1.1 overs to spare.
   Bangladesh have already secured the series after winning the first four one-day games.
   David Payne ripped through the Bangladesh batting line-up with a haul of four wickets for 56 runs and Azeem Rafiq picked up three for 36 runs.
   Nurul Hasan’s 28, Tasamul Haque’s 36, skipper Mahmudul Hasan’s 48 and Nur Hossain’s 39 at the late order helped Bangladesh post the moderate score.
   But opener James Vince’s 71 and two unbeaten innings from Ateek Javed (34) and M Bates (31) earned England U-19 a facile victory.

Briton Lewis Hamilton claimed the 17th pole position of his career Saturday when he topped the times in a floodlit qualifying session for Sunday’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
   The 24-year-old Englishman, in his McLaren-Mercedes, continued the domination he has enjoyed for most of the weekend by clocking a best lap of one minute and 40.948 seconds, with a heavy fuel load, in the top ten shoot-out.
   It was Hamilton’s fourth pole of the season and provided convincing evidence that he is hunting victory in the final race of the 2009 season at the spectacular Yas Marina circuit.
   Hamilton wound up seven-tenths of a second faster than German Sebastian Vettel, who was second ahead of his Red Bull team-mate Australian Mark Webber.
   Brazilian veteran Rubens Barrichello, in probably his last race for the Brawn GP team with which he won the constructors championship in Brazil two weeks ago, was fourth-fastest ahead of newly-acclaimed champion Briton Jenson Button, his Brawn team-mate.
   Italian Jarno Trulli was sixth for Toyota, ahead of Pole Robert Kubica for BMW Sauber and his team-mate German Nick Heidfeld.
   Another German Nico Rosberg was ninth for Williams ahead of 10th placed Swiss Sebastian Buemi, of Toro Rosso, who was celebrating his 21st birthday.
   The first mini-session threw up a surprise immediately with the elimination of Ferrari-bound two-times champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Renault.

Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semi-finals of the WTA Championships without hitting a ball on Friday as organisers avoided potential embarrassment over the event’s scoring system.
   Williams reached the last four - along with Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki - despite losing two of her three round-robin group matches.
   The American was assured of joining sister Serena in the semi-finals when Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 in the concluding Maroon Group match.
   On Saturday, Serena will face Wozniacki while Venus tackles Jankovic for places in the final of the 4.55 million dollar tournament.
   Under a complicated qualifying system, Venus pipped Dementieva for a last four place despite both players having a win apiece and with the Russian having defeated the American when they met on Tuesday.
   Venus went through having won more sets.
   In the White Group, Jankovic also made the last four, comfortably defeating US Open runner-up Wozniacki 6-2, 6-2.
   Wozniacki then faced the possibility of being eliminated from the tournament despite having two wins.
   However, the blonde Dane was saved when best friend Victoria Azarenka was forced to retire injured against Polish replacement player Agnieszka Radwanska.
   Azarenka had led 6-4, 5-2 before becoming severely restricted by a right thigh and back injury which needed constant attention.
   She was eventually forced to quit in floods of tears in an echo of Wozniacki’s injury-hit win over Vera Zvonareva the day before.
   Radwanska, who had in turn replaced an injured Zvonareva and goes home with 200,000 dollars for her day’s work, was leading 4-1 in the final set when the Belarussian hobbled away.
   ‘I feel so sorry for Victoria, because I know how she’s feeling. It’s never fun to pull out with an injury, especially in such a big tournament,’ said Wozniacki. ‘But I’m in the semi-finals and I’m happy about that. I’ve also been fighting on the court.’
   Jankovic came into her match far fresher than 19-year-old Wozniacki, the world number four.
   The 24-year-old Serbian had spent just 95 minutes in total on court in two matches after Dinara Safina withdrew through injury from her second tie after only 12 minutes.
   In a dramatic contrast, Wozniacki needed 5hr 48min to see off Azarenka and then Zvonareva, only surviving the clash with the Russian after overcoming a crippling attack of cramps.
   ‘I didn’t have anything left,’ said Wozniacki, who again played with her left thigh tightly-strapped and appeared at her news conference with her leg and stomach iced.
   ‘I couldn’t play like I wanted to. I had some pain in my stomach muscle, as well, so I couldn’t serve, but I feel I deserve to get to the semi-finals.’
   For Jankovic, who made the season-ending championships as the eighth and last qualifier, it was a third win in three career meetings against the Dane.
   ‘I wanted to reach the semi-finals and I didn’t want to get into long rallies with Caroline,’ said Jankovic, who admitted she had let herself down in her opening defeat to Azarenka.
   ‘I only arrived on Sunday from Moscow where it was very cold and here it’s very hot. It takes time to get used to the conditions. It was a bad day against Victoria.
   ‘But in tournaments like these it’s important how you finish, not how you start.’

World record holder Paula Radcliffe says she could break the course record in today’s New York City Marathon.
   The 35-year-old Briton, seeking her fourth win in the 40th edition of the race, told reporters on Friday she was in good shape after a troublesome year which included foot surgery, hamstring problems and tonsillitis.
   ‘I believe the course record can be beaten and I can run faster but the main objective is to win the race,’ said the defending champion.
   Radcliffe, who set the world record of two hours 15 minutes 25 seconds at the 2003 London Marathon, will take aim at Kenyan Margaret Okayo’s 2003 New York mark of 2:22:31.
   The Englishwoman will be running her first marathon since having surgery to remove a bunion in March.
   Radcliffe won the New York half-marathon in August but a week later had to withdraw from the world championships in Berlin due to hamstring trouble and a lack of preparation.
   She then withdrew from the world half-marathon championships in England this month due to tonsillitis.
   Radcliffe, who has been training at altitude in France, said her quads were stronger than they had been for a while and she had put in enough training to warrant a good performance.
   ‘I am confident I have the good long runs that I need behind me for the marathon,’ she said.
   Radcliffe, who also won the New York Marathon in 2004 and 2007, is clear Favourite on Sunday after Russia’s Tatyana Petrova and Ethiopia’s Dire Tune pulled out.
   ‘I still feel it’s a strong field,’ said the Englishwoman, pointing to Boston Marathon champion Salina Kosgei of Kenya. ‘You have to always be prepared for the new person.
   ‘It’s (often) about how I feel on the day. It’s very much about sticking to my race plan.’
   Top contenders in the men’s field include Morocco’s twice world champion Jaouad Gharib and Brazilian Marilson Gomes dos Santos, who has twice won the race that snakes through the city’s five boroughs and finishes in Manhattan’s Central Park.
   Four-times Boston champion Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya is another of the pre-race favourites while Americans are pinning their hopes on 27-year-old Ryan Hall.

Republic of Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni has left out Steven Reid, Andy Reid, Steve Finnan and Clinton Morrison for November’s World Cup qualifying play-off against France.
   Trapattoni drew a furious response from Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce recently when he said midfielder Steven Reid would struggle to play at the highest level again after a serious knee injury.
   Reid made a goal-scoring return to action for Blackburn in a midweek League Cup tie against Peterborough but Trapattoni, who named his 25-man squad for the France clash on Friday, believes it is much too soon to consider picking him for Ireland.
   The Italian has also decided to leave out Sunderland’s Andy Reid, Portsmouth defender Finnan and Coventry striker Morrison for the two-legged play-off at Croke Park on November 14 and the Stade de France on November 18.
   Trapattoni believes Ireland’s unbeaten record in the qualifying campaign, including two matches against world champions Italy, is proof that they can shock France to reach next year’s finals in South Africa.
   ‘We performed strongly throughout the qualifying group stages,’ Trapattoni said. ‘We were undefeated in all 10 games and this is a reflection of how we have played and also the mental strength of this team.
   ‘France have a strong squad but we go into this play-off knowing that we are only 180 minutes away from qualifying for the World Cup.’
   Squad: Goalkeepers: Shay Given, Kieren Westwood, Joe Murphy; Defenders: John O’Shea, Richard Dunne, Stephen Kelly, Kevin Kilbane, Eddie Nolan, Sean St Ledger, Paul McShane, Darren O’Dea; Midfielders: Aiden McGeady, Damien Duff, Darron Gibson, Glenn Whelan, Keith Andrews, Liam Miller, Stephen Hunt, Andy Keogh, Liam Lawrence; Strikers: Kevin Doyle, Robbie Keane, Shane Long, Leon Best, Anthony Stokes.

Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini sought to put aside a series of poor results that have reportedly left him on the brink of losing his job, saying the pressure only makes him stronger.
   ‘Personally, I feel stronger when things get difficult,’ he told a news conference Friday.
   Real’s ‘new Galaticos’ were humiliated 4-0 on Tuesday by third division minnows Alcorcon in the Spanish Cup. That came on the back of last weekend’s goalless draw with Sporting Gijon and defeat to AC Milan in the Champions League.
   The big-spending club is next in action against Getafe in the league on Saturday and against AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, and Spanish media say one more loss could mean Pellegrini’s ouster. The Chilean, who took over last summer, denied that his plan for the club had now collapsed.
   ‘It was a disastrous week, but we only lost the first leg. We will come back at home, it’s not over.
   ‘If we win tomorrow at Getafe we can be leaders of the Liga, and leaders in the Champions League on Tuesday with a good result in Milan.
   ‘Reaching the bottom is when you have lost everything and this team has a lot to say,’ he said.
   He also denied any rift with midfielder Jose Maria ‘Guti’ Gutierrez, with whom he reportedly clashed during the match at Alcorcon.
   Pellegrini said the player has been left out of the squad to face Getafe ‘not because he has been punished or has been insolent, but because he is getting over an injury’.

Former world number one Andre Agassi should be punished for taking banned substances and then lying to tennis officials about it, International Olympic Committee member Sergei Bubka said on Friday.
   Bubka said action should be taken against the American despite the World Anti-Doping Agency’s eight-year statute of limitations.
   ‘I am very disappointed with this,’ Ukrainian Bubka told Reuters in a telephone interview. ‘When I heard that, it was just terrible.
   ‘With Agassi’s case it is a legal issue. We should consult legal experts and see if we can do something about it. I would prefer to review it from a legal point of view and then to act,’ said Bubka, a former Olympic pole vault champion whose world record stands to this day.
   ‘It is terrible and harmful. That he lied and escaped and then continued (to compete) is really disappointing,’ added Bubka, who is also a senior vice president at the International Association of Athletics Federations.
   Eight-times grand slam champion Agassi revealed in his autobiography ‘Open’ that he dabbled with crystal meth in 1997 and then lied in a letter to the ruling body (ATP) about how the substance got into his system after he failed a drugs test.
   Agassi, now 39, spoke of the moment he took the highly-addictive amphetamine for the first time when his career was in freefall. He was helped by his assistant, known as Slim.
   ‘Slim dumps a small pile of powder on the coffee table. He cuts it, snorts it. He cuts it again. I snort some. I ease back on the couch and consider the Rubicon I’ve crossed,’ he said.
   ‘There is a moment of regret, followed by vast sadness. Then comes a tidal wave of euphoria that sweeps away every negative thought in my head. I’ve never felt so alive, so hopeful — and I’ve never felt such energy.’
   Bubka acknowledged that Agassi got away with it before the existence of WADA which was formed two years later.
   ‘We are much better since the creation of WADA. We are better because we engage governments and I see more progress than negative points. Yes, it is painful when we see big names (involved in doping). I hate that, really.’

Nuri Sahin and Lucas Barrios earned Borussia Dortmund a 2-0 home win over bottom club Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga on Friday.
   Turkey international Sahin converted a 60th-minute penalty before Argentine Barrios added a second goal in stoppage time as Dortmund moved up to ninth spot with 16 points from 11 games.
   Mats Hummels should have given Dortmund the lead six minutes before the break but headed wide from a cross by Sahin.
   Sahin had no trouble sending Hertha’s keeper the wrong way from the penalty spot after Gojko Kacar fouled Patrick Owomoyela.
   Hertha came close to an equaliser when Lukasz Piszczek hit the post.
   Barrios then sealed Dortmund’s win with his seventh goal in seven matches, a superb turn in the box and a powerful strike giving Drobny no chance.

Inter-university handball begins
today at SUST
The 15th Inter-University Handball Competition begins at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus today. The SUST vice-chancellor, Md Saleh Uddin, will inaugurate the tournament at the handball ground at 9:00am. Hosts SUST and Pabna University of Science and Technology will face off in the opening match. Rajshahi University, Chittagong University, Jahangirnagar University, Islami University, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Sylhet Agricultural University, National University and hosts SUST will participate in the boys’ event while Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Agricultural University, National University and hosts SUST will compete in the girls’ event. The final matches of both girls’ and boys’ events will be held on
November 4.
   — Our Correspondent