Jan 2: Bangladesh Cricket Board announces eleven committees for the Coca-Cola Independence Cup
Jan 3: Azhar bounces back. Tendulkar sacked as Indian cricket captain
Jan 4: Kalabagan begin in style as Bijoy Dlbash cricket tournament starts
Jan 5: Greenidge to take over youth side
Jan 6: Wasim Akram gives up captaincy
Jan 7: Bangladesh squad for the Coca-Cola Independence Cup named
Jan 8: Youth cricketers leave for South Africa today to take part in the World Youth Cup
Jan 9: Brian Lara becomes captain of the West Indies -
Jan 11: Bangladesh put up a good fight against India as Coca-Cola Independence Cup cricket tourney begins
Jan 12: Azhar’s hefty slap as India beat Pakistan
Jan 13: Hosts put up poor show as Pakistan reach final
Jan 15: India outplay Pakistan in the first final
Jan 17: Pakistan's sweet revenge as they go level with India
Jan 18: Dhaka to stage 7th Asia Cup cricket in 1999
Jan 19: India break world record, lift Independence Cup
Jan 25: Abdullah Al-Rakib regains national Junior chess title
Jan 26: Bangladesh beat West Indies to lift the plate final of the World Youth Cricket Cup
Jan 27: Dhaka regain the national hockey title
Feb 2: World Youth Cricket Cup England’s
Feb 3: Former national boxing coach Elias dies
Feb 6: IM Ziaur Rahman topples Niaz Murshed in the FIDE rating
Feb 8: Mohammedan Bijoy Dibash cricket champions
Feb 10: Youth cricket team meets Prime Minister
Feb 11: Bangladesh baffle UAE to record second successive win in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group Four competition
Feb 13: Sabbir hangs up his boots
Feb 15 : Sound start for MSC as soccer resumes at Mirpur Stadium
Feb 24: Raman Lamba dies
Feb 28: Biman beat Mohammedan as Premier Cricket Super League begins
Mar 3: First IM norm for Ena-mul Hossain Rajib
Mar 4: Mohammedan beat Abahani in the Premier Division soccer super league
Mar 5: Vietnamese Anh Nguyen clinches the United Insurance International Masters’ chess title
Mar 10: Abahani clinch Premier' Division cricket league title. dedicate to Lamba
Mar 11: Elections in different sports federations begins
Mar 12: Muktijoddha lift Premier Division soccer league ti-
Mar 14: Mohammedan beat Abahani in the last match of the Premier Division cricket league which was declared a Raman Lamba benefit match Mar 19: BCB boys baffle Ba-hawalpur in the Pakistan Wills Cup one-day tournament
Mar 26: Michael Atherton steps down as England cricket captain
Mar 29: Jatiya Shommilito Parisad, backed by president Saber Hossain Chowdhury, wins the BCB polls
Apr 3: Kalabagan kids win the KB Rai Choudhury memorial cricket tourney
Apr 15: Bangladesh Cricket Board chalks out a three-year plan as BCB holds its first executive committee meeting of the newly elected body
Apr 19: Acme Laboratories win the Office league cricket title
Apr 26: India clinch the Sharjah Trophy
Apr 28: BCB names 14-man squad for the Coca-Cola Triangular Series in India
Apr 29: Bangladesh U-16 footballers finish undefeated champions in the Asian youth championship qualifiers in Nepal
May 9: Sanath Jayasuriya marries Sumudu
May 10: Bangladesh leave for India today to take part in the
Coca-Cola Triangular Series
May 15: Chelsea lift European Cup Winners' Cup
May 18: Bangladesh win first ODI beating Kenya by 6 wkts
May 26: Rani Hamid retains national women's chess title
June 2: India lift the Coca-Cola Triangular series - Brojen Das dies at the age of 71
June 3: Holland win the World Cup hockey title
June 7: Salma. Tariqul and Monirul jump to shatter records in the Milk Vita na tional junior athletics charnpi-' onships
June 10: Century’s last WC kicks off today
June 15: Saber says. Test status in 2001
June 18: Muktijoddha Sangsad win the McDowell Cup soccer tourney in Calcutta
June 21: France '98 - Iran vs USA: Mother of all matches
June 26: Bangladesh beat MCC Young Cricketers
July 13: France silence samba beats
July 25: Gordon Greenidge accuses BCB of non-professional-ism
Aug 13: Vanderly Luxemburgo appointed soccer coach of Brazil
Sept 11: Ribbeck fills Vogts’ shoes
Oct 24: No cheer for Bangladesh at Bangabandhu as the Wills International Cup cricket carnival begins today
Nov 2 : South Africa lift Wills International Cricket Cup in style
Nov 30 : Wasim Akram achieves 350 ODI wkts
Dec 7 : Eyes of the world focused on Thailand as the 13th Asian Games begin
Dec 10 : Aussie Pandora’s box opened up as Mark Waugh and Shane Warne admits their involvement in a bribery scandal
Dec 29: Ashraf Bhai is no more -Reefat clinches Prime Bank chess title