Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team clinched the seven-match one-day series against their South African rivals after an eight run win in their fifth match to take an unassailable 4-1 lead in Chittagong on Saturday. Having won the toss Bangladesh decided to bat first and posted a total of 257 runs which did not seem adequate before medium-pacer ... Read more
Month: April 2015
Pakistan suffer fourth injury setback
Pakistan’s fast bowler Ehsan Adil was on Saturday ruled out of the ongoing one-day series against Bangladesh, a fourth injury setback for the tourists in the past two weeks. Ehasn, 22, aggravated a hamstring injury that he was carrying while coming to the tour and is unlikely to be fit in next seven days, team manager ... Read more
B’desh WC home qualifiers schedule finalised
The Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday finalised the schedule of the upcoming World Cup 2018 qualifying round home matches against Bangladesh’s four Group B opponents. All of the games will be played at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. Bangladesh will start their qualification campaign against Kyrgyzstan on June 11 before facing Tajikistan
Tigers break Pakistan jinx, finally
Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi pair to score a century each in the same innings as the Tigers ended their 16 years of wait for their second win over Pakistan in the first one-day international in Dhaka on Friday. Bangladesh lost 40 matches to Pakistan in all formats since they famously ... Read more
Win means a lot, says Sakib
Bangladesh heaved a sigh of relief as they finally broke the Pakistan jinx with a 79-run win in their first of the three-match one-day international series in Dhaka on Friday. The Tigers suffered heart-breaks many times over the last 16 years since triumphed over Pakistan in 1999 and despite the odds heavily favouring them were ... Read more
Tamim answers critics in style
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal stroked a magnificent century against Pakistan in the opening game of the three-match ODI series to give a fitting reply to his critics at Mirpur on Friday. The full-packed stadium witnessed the left-hander making 132 off 135 balls with the help of 15 fours and three sixes for his fifth ODI ... Read more
Mushfiq rewarded for consistency
Mushfiqur Rahim got his reward for his consistent batting as he scored a brilliant century in the first one-day international of three-match series against Pakistan in Dhaka on Friday. Widely acclaimed as technically most sound Bangladeshi batsman these days, Mushfiq was instrumental to Bangladesh’s success in the recent World Cup. He struck three fifties
Russell edge past Mohammedan
Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra continued their winning run in the Bangladesh Premier League with a narrow 1-0 win over fallen giants Mohammedan Sporting Club at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday. In the other match of the day at the same venue, Brothers Union tasted their first win of the league by defeating Farashganj Sporting ... Read more