Bangladesh draw with Nepal

Bernard PERERA in Badulla

The fifth South Asian Seven a Side Soccer championship for the Carlton Challenge Trophy continued for the second day yesterday at the Vincent Dias stadium with the Bangladesh vs Nepal match.

Bangladesh playing their first game yesterday could not come out with a good performance drawing at one all. At half time Bangladesh were in front with a goal scored by Maloy Barman. The second session saw Nepalese come out with a strong fight to equalize through Vitam Gurung. The game ended with the same score.

The second game for the morning was between India and Nepal which became a one sided game with Nepalese making strong fight back to beat the Indians six goals to nil.

The skipper of Nepal Raj Kumar was outstanding in this game scoring four goals inclusive of a hattrick.

The third match for the morning session was played between India and Bangladesh. Here too the Indians were a no match for the Bangladesh as they have struck good form. Bangladesh opened scoring in the early stages of the game to be in the forefront.

They opened scoring in the first minute of the game and continued to trouble the unsettled Indians at every given moment scoring at will and went on have fine lead of four goals before the half way mark.

The second session was more favourable to the Bangladesh as they went on to add five more goals during this half and sealed the match in their favour with a huge margin of nine goals to nil victory.