Cricket

Bangladesh are focusing on their fielding and preparing for the short ball ahead of the second Test match against Sri Lanka after their shortcomings were exposed in the series opener, all-rounder Sakib al Hasan said on Sunday. Sakib’s comments came as the Tigers had their first practice session at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, ... Read more

Kumar Sangakkara expects things to be different this time around when his side takes on Bangladesh in the second Test in Chittagong on Tuesday after a surprisingly easy win in Dhaka, the veteran Sri Lankan batsman said on Sunday. ‘So the earlier game was easier than we thought it would be, but we expect it to ... Read more

Uncertainty over the Pakistan cricket team’s participation in the upcoming Asia Cup and ICC World Twenty20 still looms as the Pakistan Cricket Board has yet to convey its decision, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Sunday. ‘They are yet to confirn us about their particpation in Asia Cup and World Twenty20,’ the BCB president ... Read more

ICC proposes play-off match for IC Cup champions against 10th-ranked Test team Bangladesh may have been able to prevent their Test status in the recent International Cricket Council meeting in Dubai, but it do not go the way they wanted, according to officials privy to the meeting. During the meeting, the ICC gave a clear guideline ... Read more

One of the country’s largest mobile operators, Banglalink Limited, introduced national cricketer Sakib al Hasan as their new brand ambassador at a city hotel on Saturday. Sakib was chosen to represent Banglalink for the next two years. The 26-year old all-rounder will take part in a various number of promotional activities

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is facing an acute shortage of fund to run its day-to-day activities which required them to seek a loan of Tk nine crore from a private bank against its fixed deposit, according to a document obtained by New Age on Saturday. The BCB, in its most talked-about board

The Bangladesh Cricket Board ensured extra security measures for the Sri Lankan side as they arrived at Hazrat Shah Amanat International Airport, Chittagong on Saturday for the second and final Test. The BCB appeared cautious due to the recent experience during the home series against West Indies Under-19 when the tourists scrapped the series at the ... Read more

The Bangladesh cricket team harkened back on Friday to the days when they would participate in a practice session on the scheduled last day of a Test match, having already lost the match within four days. Captain Mushfiqur Rahim, Nasir Hossain, Tamim Iqbal, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Imrul Kayes, Abdur Razzak and Shamsur Rahman took part in

Bangladesh’s fragile batsmen caved in for the second time in the game to hand Sri Lanka a massive innings and 248-run victory inside four days in the first Test in Dhaka on Thursday. Tired after spending nearly two days in the field, the Tigers appeared numb in their thinking, evident in their mindless batting performance ... Read more

For Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim it was a Test match to forget. Not only did Bangladesh go down in defeat by a whopping innings and 248-run margin against Sri Lanka in the first Test in Dhaka, the Tigers also suffered the ignominy of conceding their highest-ever opposition score when the visitors racked up 730-6 declared in ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan took contrasting views on the media upon his arrival in Dhaka from the ICC meeting on Thursday, first blaming them for creating an outcry before thanking them for outstanding support.  The ICC meeting discussed a proposal put forward by cricketing giants India, Australia and England, who wanted to effectively

Mahela Jayawardene once again victimised the Bangladeshi bowlers to show his class as he cracked an unbeaten double century to compound the hosts’ misery in the first Test in Dhaka on Wednesday. His 203 not out, the right-hander’s fifth Test century against Bangladesh, guided Sri Lanka to a mammoth 730-6 and gave them an imposing 498-run ... Read more

Mahela Jayawardene reached another milestone in his illustrious career on Wednesday, even if he was too busy flaying Bangladeshi bowlers around the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to notice. He did, however, notice a change in the way the hosts approached the game as he and the other Sri Lankan batsmen put the game out of reach. Jayawardene moved

On a day when Bangladeshi bowlers were taken to task by the Sri Lankan batmen to the tune of 730-6 declared – the highest team total against the Tigers in Tests – off-spinner Sohag Gazi argued that the attack actually performed decently on Wednesday. His assessment after Bangladesh’s disappointing performance stunned those at the press briefing ... Read more

Dhaka Gladiators skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza and coach Ian Pont were summoned by the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s Anti Corruption Tribunal to give their accounts of the Bangladesh Premier League match-fixing scandal, officials said on Wednesday. Mashrafee appeared before the tribunal on Wednesday, while Pont is expected to to give his

Satellite TV channel CHANNEL9 has secured the sole broadcasting TV rights in Bangladesh for the Asia Cup 2014 from February 25 to March 8. The announcement was made by CHANNEL9 managing director Enaytur Rahman at the Spectra Convention Centre in Dhaka at a press conference on Wednesday.

Kaushal Silva had Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim and his luck to thank for his maiden Test century as Sri Lanka rode his innings to seize control in the first Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Tuesday. Silva, often described as a carbon-copy of legendary Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasuriya, slammed 139 off 244 balls to guide ... Read more

Cricket fans in Bangladesh can heave a sigh of relief as the International Cricket Council has dropped the idea of introducing a two-tier system to Test cricket in the immediate future in the face of strong opposition from the Bangladesh Cricket Board. In a media release late on Tuesday, the ICC said mutually-agreed bilateral FTP Agreements, ... Read more

For Bangladesh paceman Al Amin Hossain, the only success so far came in the form of picking up the prized scalp of Sri Lankan batting stalwart Kumar Sangakkara on the second day of the first Test match in Dhaka on Tuesday. The Tigers have always felt that Sangakkara has been one of the major obstacles in ... Read more

Sri Lankan opener Kaushal Silva waited over two years for his return to Test cricket on New Year’s Eve last month. His recent form and some good luck may conspire to keep him around for longer this time. Silva enjoyed no small measure of good fortune as he made his first career Test century in seven ... Read more