Indo-Bangla Games begins in city Feb 22

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The second Indo-Bangladesh Bangla Games will be held in the city on February 22-26 next year with fresh inclusion of Twenty20 Cricket, reports UNB.
The 9th disciplines of sports included in the second version of the games are Athletics, Swimming, Shooting, Football, Kabaddi, Basketball, Volleyball, Kho Kho and Twenty20 Cricket.
A 218-member contingent each from Bangladesh and West Bengal are likely to participate in the five-day meet to be inaugurated on February 22.
The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the games held Saturday at the conference room of Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA).
Chaired by BOA Secretary General Kutubuddin Ahmed, the meeting was attended by Secretary General of Bengal Olympic Association Kamolesh Chatterjee, BOA Vice President Mizanur Rahman Manu, Deputy Secretary General Ashrafuddin Ahmed Chunnu, Treasurer Monirul Haque, member Syed Shahed Reza, Director and CEO Wali Ullah, NSC Secretary Aminul Islam and Sr Assistant Secretary of Youth and Sports Ministry Obaidul Haque.
Eight events included in the two-day athletics meet (men's and women's) to be held at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, 17 events including in two-day long swimming competition (men's and women's) to be held in the BKSP swimming pool, two-day rifles shooting competition (men's and women's) will also be held in BKSP, three-day football competition (men's and women's) will be held in Dhaka, Chittagong and Narayanganj, three-day men's Kabaddi competition will be held in Dhaka and Narayanganj, three-day men's Kho-Kho competition will be held in Dhaka, three-day men's basketball competition in Dhaka (Mirpur) and BKSP, three-day men's Volleyball competition in Dhaka and Gazipur and thee-day Twenty20 Cricket meet will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong.
Best of the matches will decide the winners in all the team events sports -- football, kabaddi, kho kho, basketball, volleyball and Twenty 20 cricket -- while three men's and three women's team from each side will compete in athletics, swimming and shooting.