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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

The habit of chasing every ball – a common weakness against short-pitched deliveries – and some poor luck combined to bring about Bangladesh’s downfall as they were dismissed for a modest 232 runs in the first innings of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Dhaka on Monday. Sri Lanka took a firm grip on ... Read more

Sri Lankan pace bowler Shaminda Eranga admitted that they had a plan to bowl short deliveries against the Bangladeshi batsmen during the opening day of the first Test in Dhaka on Monday. Eranga was the most successful Sri Lankan bowler, taking a career-best 4-49 to help the tourists dismiss Bangladesh for 232 runs in under ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan is not the type of cricketer to always blame the wicket, and the former skipper remained his usual self on Monday despite a poor batting performance from Bangladesh that saw them dismissed for a below-par total in the first innings of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Monday. The Tigers were bundled ... Read more

A Bangladeshi hacker breached the official website of the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Sunday in protest of India’s role in a plan to revamp the International Cricket Council. Ashik Iqbal Chowdhury hacked the BCCI website and uploaded a picture of the Bangladesh cricket team with a caption that read: ‘Don’T MesS ... Read more

Bangladesh-Sri Lanka first Test begins today Bangladesh will be keen to pull up their socks and start from where they left off in the Test arena when they take on Sri Lanka in the opening game of their two-match Test series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. Though they have struggled to establish a strong foothold ... Read more

Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim asked his team to set aside the recent controversy surrounding the proposed two-tier Test system and concentrate on the immediate work at hand as they prepare to begin their home series against Sri Lanka today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. The recent developments in international cricket, which may deny Bangladesh

Former Bangladesh Cricket Board president Saber Hossain Chowdhury wrote to International Cricket Council president and CEO Alan Isaac on Sunday in support of former ICC president Ehsan Mani’s letter of protest against the controversial plan to overhaul the ICC. Mani’s letter, dated January 26, is undersigned

All rounder Sakib al Hasan is yearning for a sporting wicket in the forthcoming two-match Test series against Sri Lanka as he believed that it would provide both the teams an equal chance against each other. ‘I think a sporting wicket would be better because the contest will be between two Asian teams,’ Sakib told reporters ... Read more

The visiting Sri Lankan cricket team will go into the two-Test series against Bangladesh knowing fully well that they could easily be challenged by the home side in their own conditions unlike in the past.  Sri Lanka won all but one of their previous 14 Tests against Bangladesh with seven of their victories coming by ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday denied that it has passed a resolution to vote in favour of a draft proposal that would effectively strip the country of Test status on Thursday’s board meeting. It was widely reported that the draft proposal, forwarded by the so-called ‘big three’ India, Australia and England, was endorsed in the ... Read more