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The Bangladesh Cricket Board began to clear the payments to Bangladesh Premier League players on Tuesday, though a large portion of the payment will remain unresolved due to the non-cooperation of some franchises, officials said. National batsmen Nasir Hossain and Junaed Siddique of the Rangpur Riders and Test opener

Before leaving the country for his domestic T20 assignments in England and the West Indies, ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan said that the one thing that he would miss the most would be the opportunity to spend Eid-ul-Fitr with his family and friends in his hometown of Magura. While spending time outside Bangladesh definitely has ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan took steps to win the hearts of representatives of the Divisional and District Sports Associations, who will have a major say in the forthcoming election. Nazmul called a meeting with DSA representatives at the National Cricket Academy building today to discuss the election, after a rift had clearly developed ... Read more

Bangladesh A restricted English county side Hampshire to 223 in their first one-day match of the UK tour on Tuesday at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. The second-string side, who won the toss and sent the opposition in, bundled out Hampshire in 49.1 overs as Rubel Hossain, Farhad Reza and

Despite providing a scintillating performance with the ball (6 for 6) against Trinidad and Tobago in his last match of the Caribbean Premier League, ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan was not satisfied. In an interview released by the CPL Shakib has said that he is ‘desperate’ to score some runs and prove his worth with ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s cricket operations committee finalised the domestic calendar for the 2013-14 season despite strong opposition by its tournament committee, said BCB officials on Monday. The two committees were at loggerheads after the cricket operations committee placed the Bangladesh Premier League, the country’s lone Twenty20 competition, ahead of the

Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal was unable to deliver with the bat as his franchise St Lucia Zouks registered their first win in the inaugural Caribbean Premier League T20 against Guyana Amazon Warriors in Guyana on Sunday. Tamim made only six runs from eight balls with the help of a boundary before being

Touring Bangladesh A team were bundled out cheaply for 145 runs in 42.1 overs against Pakistan A team in the inaugural match of the Tri-Nation Tournament at the Haslegrave ground in Loughborough in England on Monday. Sent into bat first, Bangladesh faced an initial batting collapse losing seven wickets

Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan nearly missed out on world-record bowling figures in Twenty20 matches as he took the Caribbean Premier League by storm in his third outing for Barbados Tridents on Saturday. Sakib mesmerised Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel after he recorded figures of 6-6 in four

The touring Bangladesh A team can expect to face a tough England Lions side in their one-day series later this month, according to head coach Corey Richards. ‘The tour will definitely be a challenging one as the depth of English cricket at the moment is as good as it has been for a while and ... Read more

Ravindra Jadeja has topped the ICC bowlers’ rankings in ODIs, level with West Indies spinner Sunil Narine, after jumping four places. Jadeja is the first India bowler to top the rankings since Anil Kumble, who topped the table in 1996, and is the fourth India bowler to do so, Kapil Dev and Maninder Singh being

Tainted Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf has retired from all forms of umpiring duties due to personal commitments, a report claimed on Saturday. A report on the website of ‘Express’ newspaper on Saturday said that Rauf had made up his mind to retire from all forms of umpiring

Anamul Haque and three other cricketers passed their Higher Secondary Certificate examination, the results of which were published on Saturday. The national team opener secured 3.6 grade points, appearing from the Bangladesh Krira Shikha Protishthan (BKSP). Anamul, who is currently

Rahatul Ferdous’ five-for helped the Bangladesh Under-19s begin their English campaign with a win over the England Development Programme U-17 squad in a rain-interrupted warm-up match in Loughborough on Friday. The left-arm spinner claimed 5-29 as EDP were dismissed for 204 in 49.5 overs before the

Two of the four employees of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, who were supposed to receive a show-cause letter for their reported connections with the rival group of organisers, have been sacked finally. Assistant accounts manager Syed Abul Kashem and assistant manager of the indoor and gymnasium Abdul Mazid, received their termination letters on Saturday, said ... Read more

The variety in the Bangladesh A team’s pace bowling will give the opposition a run for their money during their tour of England, said skipper Jahirul Islam at Mirpur on Friday. The selectors included five pace bowlers in Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Al Amin along with seaming all-rounder Ziaur Rahman and Farhad Reza in the ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is set to start its election process from August 4 and will ask the National Sports Council to initiate its preparation, BCB president Nazmul Hasan said on Friday. The decision is a major step forward for the long over-due BCB election, which had been stalled due to an ongoing legal battle ... Read more

Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib Al Hasan claimed man of the match honours as his Barbados Tridents beat the Antigua Hawksbills by 12 runs in their Caribbean Premier League T20 match on Thursday. Sakib’s poor form from the previous match looked to continue after the Tridents chose to bat first, with the highly-rated all-rounder falling to Marlon ... Read more

Selectors are concerned as some key members of the Bangladesh national cricket team failed to take their fitness to a desired level in a camp that ended earlier this week. Trainer Stuart Karpinen on Thursday submitted his data, obtained from certain fitness tests, which showed at least six players, some of whom are very crucial ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan’s Barbados Tridents defeated Tamim Iqbal’s St Lucia Jouks by 17 runs in the curtain-raiser of the inaugural Caribbean Premier League in Bridgetown, Barbados on Wednesday. Pakistani all-rounder Shoaib Malik and West Indian Kieron Pollard guided Barbados to the victory over St Lucia with their all-round efforts, while neither Sakib nor Tamim