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Prime Bank Cricket Club captain Sakib al Hasan was confident with his side’s chances of winning the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup due to the strength of his team, said the Bangladesh all-rounder after the final on Tuesday. Prime Bank won the inaugural edition of the competition after defeating UCB-BCB XI by 55 runs at the ... Read more

The Sri Lankan High Commission in Dhaka has assured the Bangladesh Cricket Board that its cricket team would participate in the tour of Bangladesh later this month irrespective of the country’s political situation, BCB officials said on Tuesday. BCB director Mahbub Anam and acting chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury met the Sri Lankan High Commissioner

Bangladesh were eliminated from the Under-19s Asia Cup after losing their final Group B match by two wickets to Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The Junior Tigers won the toss and posted 203-6 in the first innings, led again by Nazmul Hossain Shanto, who posted his second successive fifty of

Friendship will be set aside when Sakib al Hasan’s Prime Bank CC take on Tamim Iqbal’s UCB-BCB XI in the final of the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. All-rounder Sakib and opener Tamim have been very close to each other since their early days in age-level cricket and their ... Read more

The Bangladesh National Party said it could not guarantee that the forthcoming international competitions to be hosted by Bangladesh would be out of the purview of any political programmes. BNP sports secretary Lt. Col (retd.) Abdul Latif, also a former manager of the National Cricket Team, paid a visit to the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s headquarters at ... Read more

The Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team will play their final Group B match against Sri Lanka U-19s at the Asian Cricket Council U-19 Asia Cup 2014 scheduled to be held today at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium Nursery 2 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The match kicks off at 11.30 am (BST). Earlier, Bangladesh got off to a ... Read more

Tamim hits maiden T20 hundred UCB-BCB XI captain Tamim Iqbal propelled his team to the final of the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup after blasting 130 against Mohammedan Sporting Club at Mirpur on Sunday. Tamim bludgeoned his way to become the highest individual T20 scorer of Bangladesh as UCB-BCB XI defeated Mohammedan by 29 runs ... Read more

The Bangladesh Under-19s held off the Afghanistan Under-19s to win by 16 runs in Abu Dhabi on Sunday and take control of their group at the Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup. Bangladesh appeared to be cruising to victory after Afghanistan stumbled to 67-6 near the halfway stage as they chased a target of 170. ... Read more

Opening batsman Tamim Iqbal eventually proved his worth in the shortest format of cricket as his maiden hundred at the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup made him the highest individual T20 scorer of Bangladesh. Tamim was expected to be one of the best T20 players of the country due to his aggressive style of play but ... Read more

UCB-BCB XI batsman Imrul Kayes and Mohammedan Sporting Club’s wicket-keeper batsman Nurul Hasan both scored match-winning half-centuries to lead their sides to victories at the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup at Mirpur on Saturday. Imrul notched a brilliant, unbeaten half-century

Last-place Abahani Limited take on Mohammedan Sporting Club as the ongoing Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup resumes today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka. The game, which is scheduled to start at 1:00pm and will be televised live on Bangladesh Television, is a do-or-die affair for Abahani, as a loss

A hostile spell of pace bowling from UCB-BCB XI seamer Al-Amin Hossain and a mesmerising all-round performance by Prime Bank’s Sakib al Hasan inspired their sides to victories at the Amber Victory Day Twenty20 Cup in Sylhet on Thursday. Al-Amin scalped 5-17 in four overs – with all of his five wickets coming in one over ... Read more

The UCB-BCB XI’s Al-Amin Hossain on Thursday became the latest Bangladeshi cricketer to make history in an eventful 2013, taking five wickets in an over against Abahani Limited at the Victory Day Twenty20 Cup in Sylhet. Al-Amin took the ball for the final over of Abahani’s innings and dismissed Mehedi Maruf with the first ball after ... Read more

Bangladesh will go into the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Colombo fully prepared, knowing that if they are unable to convince the teams that the security situation is under control it could cost the country the forthcoming Asia Cup and the ICC World Twenty20. Asian Cricket Council chief executive officer

Sabbir Rahman continued to fire for Prime Bank CC and Mominul Haque scored a blistering fifty for Mohammedan Sporting Club as both their sides came away with wins at the Victory Day T20 Cup in Sylhet on Wednesday. Sabbir hit his second successive unbeaten half-century of the tournament to steer Prime Bank to a four-wicket victory ... Read more

Bangladesh’s hopes of hosting the Asia Cup in February-March received a further blow after a top official of the Asian Cricket Council dropped a hint that they could the shift the venue elsewhere from Dhaka. A decision in this regard could be taken at the ACC meeting on January 4 in Sri Lanka, said Syed Ashrfaul ... Read more

National skipper Mushfiqur Rahim sustained a back injury on Wednesday and his status remains in doubt for the rest of the Victory Day Twenty20 Cup. Mushfiq, who is leading Abahani Limited in the competition, sustained the injury while batting against Prime Bank on his way to a second successive

Vice-Captain cum wicket-keeper of the Bangladesh Under-19 team Mohammed Jasim Uddin has been ruled out of the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup UAE 2014 due to a finger injury Jasim Uddin was hurt during a training session on Tuesday and an X-ray confirmed an oblique fracture of the right index finger. Zakir Hasan will replace Jashimuddin in ... Read more

The National Sports Council has cancelled the work order for construction of a swimming pool at the Khulna Women’s Sports Complex as the contractor could not complete it within the specified time. According to NSC engineer Awlad Hossain, Parija Construction Co was awarded the contract a cost of Tk 7.29 crore. But the firm failed to ... Read more

Tight security promised for upcoming events The Bangladesh Cricket Board has promised tight security for the international sides visiting the country for upcoming events in the wake of growing security concerns triggered by recent political unrest. The BCB has revised the security plan and sent it to the concerned stakeholders, including the Asian Cricket Council and ... Read more