Cricket

The Bangladesh Cricket Board will not take any responsibility over the payment of players in the Dhaka Premier League, an official said on Thursday, raising fears of further chaos in local cricket. The BCB had been expected to provide the players with some assurances over payment, if not any formal guarantees, as it did during ... Read more

Former Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq will conduct a three-week spin-bowling clinic for a select group of current and emerging West Indies spinners, including three women cricketers, from September 3. Saqlain was invited to conduct the clinic on the suggestion of West Indies coach, Ottis Gibson in a bid to better the skills of players who ... Read more

The forthcoming Dhaka Premier League will be under more scrutiny than ever in the aftermath of the recent match-fixing scandal that has rocked Bangladesh’s cricket, said the officials of Bangladesh Cricket Board on Wednesday. The DPL is widely blamed for match-fixing in local cricket, though it has hardly any link with international betting syndicate which mainly lures ... Read more

Embattled former national captain Mohammad Ashraful has left for the United Kingdom to seek advice from a lawyer familiar with match-fixing related charges, sources close to the player confirmed on Wednesday. Ashraful, one of the nine individuals charged by the ICC for match-fixing in the 2013 edition of the Bangladesh Premier League, has already confessed

The forthcoming Dhaka Premier League should be wide open, with several teams having near-equal chances of winning after players were transferred through the newly-introduced system, according to a number of team officials. This contrasts the lead-in to last season, when it was not too difficult to predict that eventual champions Victoria Sporting Club would

All-rounder Sakib al Hasan on Monday said that he has no regrets representing lowly-ranked Kalabagan Krira Chakra in the upcoming Dhaka Premier League but insisted he had every reason to believe that payments will be not cleared on time. Sakib arrived from the West Indies via London after

Dhaka Gladiators owner Salim Chowdhury is expected to plead not guilty before the ICC Anti Corruption and Security Unit today after he was charged with match-fixing related offence during the second edition Bangladesh Premier League The ICC gave 14 days to the nine individuals charged with offenses related to the match-fixing and the deadline ends ... Read more

Forum, a representative group of the district and divisional sports organisers, pledged their unity ahead of the Bangladesh Cricket Board election that is expected to take place sometime in September and October. In a press release given out on Monday, Forum general secretary Ashikur Rahman Miku claimed that the group was in harmony irrespective of ... Read more

Leading all-rounder Sakib al Hasan was snubbed by at least four teams before being picked by lowly Kalabagan Krira Chakra in a surprise Dhaka Premier League player transfers held at a city hotel on Sunday. Sakib was expected to be the apple cart in the newly-introduced complicated transfer system that saw a club team’s pecking ... Read more

Kalabagan Krira Chakra wasted little time in finding out Sakib al Hasan’s frame of mind after they landed the prized all-rounder for their club in the surprise Dhaka Premier League players’ transfer on Sunday. ‘I just called Sakib in London and he seemed perfectly alright,’ club official Reaz Ahmed Babu said during a break in ... Read more

Three-time champions South Korea thumped Bangladesh 9-0 in their opening game at the 9th Men’s Hockey Asia Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Sunday. Bangladesh had targeted sixth position prior to the tournament’s start, but they began their pursuit by shipping nine goals against powerhouse South Korea,

The Bangladesh A team picked up its first victory in England on Saturday, chasing down the England Lions’ 319/7 to win by four wickets in the final match of the tour. Having been hammered by the England Lions in the first two unofficial One-Day Internationals on the heels of five losses in five matches against ... Read more

The long wait for Dhaka Premier League player transfers will come to an end today when the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis will complete the process in a new but complicated system at a city hotel. The so-called players-by-choice transfer will begin at 3:00pm in the Marble Room of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel with 12 clubs ... Read more

Jamaica Tallawahs ensured their place in the final of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 after a seven-wicket win over Barbados Tridents on Friday in Trinidad as Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan barely featured. Jamaica were scheduled to encounter Guyana Amazon Warriors in the final in Trinidad on Saturday night. Barbados posted 148-6 in their 20 ... Read more

The Bangladesh A team bowlers conceded more than 300 runs for the third consecutive time against the England Lions in the third and final one-dayer in Taunton on Saturday. The Lions posted 319-7 in their stipulated 50 overs as the Bangladesh A team bowlers failed to stop the flow of runs. Earlier in the first ... Read more

Blames off-field issues for performance The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s increased focus on elections and an inexperienced management group making decisions were the reasons behind the miserable failure of Bangladesh cricketers this summer, Sahara-BCB National Academy manager Richard McInnes said on Friday. Despite fielding a strong A team in England, the tourists

Former Bangladesh Cricket Board president Saber Hossain Chowdhury called for the BCB to put its emphasis back on cricket after the recent below-par performances of the different age-level teams and the second string Bangladesh side abroad. Saber made the statement after observing the recent

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is set to again defer the scheduled start of the overdue Dhaka Premier League after clubs demanded it be shifted from September 3, an official of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis said on Friday. Though the clubs agreed to participate in the newly-introduced Player’s By Choice auction on August 25 ... Read more

Former Bangladesh Cricket Board president Saber Hossain Chowdhury has challenged his opponent in the impending BCB election, current president Nazmul Hasan, to an open debate on television or any other platform. Saber, who was the BCB chief from 1997 to 2001, defied Nazmul to join in a discussion after a press conference at his residence ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan on Thursday announced that he will contest the forthcoming BCB election, ending a long speculation over his position. Nazmul was openly leading a camp ahead of the election but had never publicly admitted his candidature, which kept his BCB colleagues somewhat restrained