The Bangladesh national cricket team will board for their crucial tour of Zimbabwe today with their sight firmly focused on ending their drought of winning a Test series with their confidence sky-high after their recent performances. Bangladesh defeated the West Indies
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‘It is our Ashes’
Bangladesh’s Australian head coach Shane Jurgensen termed the rivalry between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh similar to the Ashes but asked his charges not to take any extra pressure on themselves ahead of the upcoming 33-day tour. ‘This is our Ashes,’ Jurgensen told New Age on Tuesday.
BD-SL U-19 series kicks off today
Hosts Bangladesh and the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team will begin their series today at Mirpur as both the age-level teams will be looking forward to prove their worth ahead of the upcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup next year. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will start the series
Mooney faces flak over Thatcher tweet
Ireland allrounder John Mooney faces the prospect of disciplinary action following a tweet made in response to Margaret Thatcher’s death. After news of Baroness Thatcher’s death broke on Monday, a tweet appearing from Mooney’s account, said: ‘I hope it was slow and painful.’
Saqlain rejoins Tigers
Former Pakistan off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq is expected to join the Bangladesh cricket team as a spin bowling consultant for the forthcoming Zimbabwe tour, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Monday. This will be Saqlain’s second stint with the Tigers after his first assignment during the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and the home series ... Read more
Salma’s valiant knock goes in vain
The Bangladesh national women’s cricket team came agonisingly close before falling short again as their Indian counterparts registered a five-wicket win to go 1-0 up in the three-match ODI series in Ahmedabad on Monday. The Bangladeshi eves rode on the back of a fine knock from
Zimbabwe face players’ boycott ahead of Tigers’ visit
Zimbabwe’s cricketers are considering a boycott ahead of their series against Bangladesh in protest against unsatisfactory payments from their board. A source close to the players told ESPNcricinfo that non-centrally contracted players may not play in an upcoming warm-up match between Zimbabwe’s cricketers, ‘to contest ZC’s offer of a daily allowance’
Busy month for Bangladesh age-level teams
The Sri Lankan Under-19 cricket team arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday to play two four-day matches and five one-day internationals against their Bangladeshi counterparts. The first four-dayer between the two South Asian sides will begin on April 11 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. The two teams will then
Countdown for World T20 begins
The countdown for the ICC World Twenty20 2014 began with the unveiling of the trophy and the logo in two separate programmes in Dhaka on Saturday, exactly one year before the tournament kicks off. National skipper Mushfiqur Rahim along with a member of the women’s cricket team Sathira Jessy unveiled the trophy in presence of ... Read more
Glittering launch of ICC World T20 logo
Inspired by the unique painted rickshaws, which pack the streets of the Bangladesh cities, the logo for the ICC World Twenty20 2014 was unveiled on a star-studded evening in Dhaka on Saturday. At a glittering gala shown live on television in Bangladesh – and in the presence of the International Cricket Council vice president AHM ... Read more
Sakib returns to bolster Tigers
Shahriar, Enamul return, Shahadat retained, no room for Naeem All-rounder Sakib al Hasan returned to the field after an injury lay-off to bolster the strength of the national team as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 15-member Test squad for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe scheduled to start from April 17 at Harare. Sakib did ... Read more
Women’s team end T20s with another defeat
The Bangladesh women’s national team provided a better account of themselves although they eventually fell short by 10 runs in the third and final Twenty20 in Vadodara on Friday as the Indian eves made a clean sweep of the three-match T20 International series. In their pursuit of India’s challenging score of 123-9, the Bangladeshi
Bangladesh to play two FIFA friendlies in UK
Bangladesh are all set to play two FIFA friendly matches against India and Pakistan in England in June, said Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin on Friday. Celebrity Management Group, an India-based sports management company, which earlier arranged the Argentina-Nigera friendly in Dhaka, will organise the matches, said Salahuddin.
Sajidul eager to make up for lost time
Left-arm paceman Sajidul Islam was a surprise inclusion in the 15-member Test squad announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe later this month as he was handed a comeback to the national fold after five years. Sajidul made his debut along with opener Tamim Iqbal and Junaed Siddique
T20 WC ’14 logo launches today
The members of the International Cricket Council and Bangladesh Cricket Board will host a colourful programme today at a city hotel to launch the logo of the ICC World Twenty20 2014 to be hosted in Bangladesh. The one-and-a-half hour programme will have several segments that include music and dance from renowned artists along with a magic ... Read more
BPL payment fiasco continues
The Bangladesh Premier League continued its downward trend of payment ignominy after the Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh claimed that most of the local players are still to be duly paid. The players were supposed to receive 25 percent of the total amount before the start of the tournament, 25 percent by the time the tournament
Bangladesh give way to series defeat
The Bangladesh women’s national team succumbed to their second consecutive Twenty20 defeat against their Indian counterparts as they went down by seven wickets in the second match of the three-match T20 international series in Baroda on Thursday. Chasing Bangladesh’s modest total of 88-4 in
Mridul laid to rest
Former Bangladesh batsman Mazharul Hoque Mridul was laid to rest in eternal peace at the Mashdair graveyard in Narayanganj on Thursday after he passed away following a cardiac arrest while playing badminton a day earlier. His Namaz-e-Janaza was attended by Bangladesh Cricket Board
Mushfiq wants Tigers to carry momentum in Zimbabwe
A confident looking Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim is expecting to settle the score with Zimbabwe in their forthcoming tour beginning from mid-April by taking forward the performance and consistency displayed by the team in the recently concluded tour of Sri Lanka. The national cricketers returned home from Sri Lanka on Tuesday with
Eves begin on the wrong foot
Skipper Salma Khatun’s all-round performance went in vain as the Bangladesh national women’s team began their campaign in India with a 49-run defeat in the opening game of the three-match Twenty20 international series at the Reliance Stadium in Vadodara on Tuesday. Salma took 3-12 as India were restricted to 143-3 in 20 overs and later