Dhaka District and Bangladesh Army reached the semifinals of the 31st ATN Bangla National Hockey Gold Cup Tournament eliminating their rivals in the quarterfinals at Maulana Bhashani National Stadium here on Sunday.
Bangladesh Army will play Bangladesh Navy in the first semifinal at 2pm while Dhaka District will play Dhaka Education Board in the other semifinal at 4pm, both on Monday at the same venue.
In the day’s first quarterfinal, Dhaka District smartly booked a seat for the last four crushing Mymensingh District by 16-0 goals.
National coloured forward Maksud Alam Habul contributed four goals, Mahbub Hossain three, Raihanuddin two, Rubel, Shihab, Iqbal, Afsar, Rabbi Salehin, Imtiaz and Rakin scored one each for the winners.
In the day’s other quarterfinal, Bangladesh Army overcame BKSP by 7-6 goals in tie breaker as the keenly contested match between two teams was locked in 3-3 goals in the stipulated period
National player Hasan Jubair Niloy struck two and Milan Hossain scored the other goal for the Bangladesh Army while Arshad Hossain, Khalilur Rahman and Rakibul Hasan scored one each for national sports training institute team BKSP in the schedule time
