{"id":15699,"date":"2018-04-22T06:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2018-04-22T06:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:15:52","slug":"winning-start-for-bangladesh-in-bangabandhu-intl-volleyball-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/04\/22\/winning-start-for-bangladesh-in-bangabandhu-intl-volleyball-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning start for Bangladesh in Bangabandhu Int\u2019l Volleyball meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Bangladesh got off to a winning star in the second edition of Bangabandhu Asian Senior Men&#8217;s Central Zone International Volleyball tournament beating Nepal by 3-1 set in their tournament opening match held on Saturday at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium at Mirpur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the six-nation tournament, Bangladesh lost the first set by 24-26 point but bounced back in the second set with a 25-18 point victory. The hosts went ahead with a 25-14 point in the third set and confirmed their triumph with 3-1 set in the last set, according to a news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The boys in red and green will play their second match against the Maldives scheduled to be held on Monday (April 23) at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh have been grouped in Pool A alongside Maldives and Nepal while Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan make up Group B.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals. Both the last-four clashes will be held Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Bangladesh got off to a winning star in the second edition of Bangabandhu Asian Senior Men&rsquo;s Central Zone International Volleyball tournament beating Nepal by 3-1 set in their tournament opening match held on Saturday at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium at Mirpur. &nbsp; In the six-nation tournament, Bangladesh lost the first set by 24-26 point but bounced back in the second set with a 25-18 point victory. The hosts went ahead with a 25-14 point in the third set and confirmed their triumph with 3-1 set in the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15701,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions\/15701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}