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Bronze day for Bangladesh

SPORTS REPORTER
It was a bronze day for Bangladesh at the 9th SAF Games in Islamabad yesterday after Doli Akhter and Pradip Chandra stepped up on the podium.
Doli won her medal in the 100m breaststroke clocking 1:22.65 at the Pakistan Sports Complex Swimming Pool. The gold went to Bhabna Shrman of India with 1:20:94 while compatriot Mrudula Dhanraj grabbed the silver.
Weightlifting finally made its mark, if only in a small way for the country, when Pradip lifted a total of 262kg in 105kg class that saw Pakistan's Sajjad Amin twice create a new SAF Games record before lifting 340kg. India's Gur Minder got the silver with 325kg at the Community Centre.
The Bangladesh kabadi team ended its barren spell in the Games after they overwhelmed fellow no-hopers Nepal 41-13 at the Rawalpindi Army Stadium.
Elsewhere, Bangladesh's Mahbub Billah lost to Farjad Saif of Pakistan in the quarterfinals of the men's table tennis competition at the Hamidi Hall of Pakistan Sports Complex.
Mahmud lost 3-11, 10-12, 9-11, 811.
While cricket has been revitalised with India playing Pakistan in
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a full series after many years, the passion also caught up with football as the prestigious title-fight will be contested between the two fierce neighbours at the Jinnah Stadium today.
India cruised to the final thrashing Bhutan 4-1 in the first semifinal at the same venue on Saturday night.
Hosts Pakistan after knocking out holders Bangladesh, held their nerves to beat Sri Lanka 6-5 in the tie-breaker.
The second semi finished goalless in regulation time.
Meanwhile, Anuradha Cooray of Sri Lanka won the men's marathon.
He completed the distance in 2:16:38 ahead of countryman Ajith Bandara who finished in a time of 2:19:29 for silver. Arjun Bahadur Basnet of Nepal secured the bronze clocking 2:21:23.
After six days of competition, India are the runaway gold leaders with 66 compared to 23 for Pakistan. Sri Lanka has eight glittering medals while Bangladesh has three and Nepal two to their credit.