Cricket

Sakib al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal on Saturday assured Mizanur Rahman of financial help when the right-side paralysed student met them at the Mirpur academy and asked him to contact them on January 19. Mizanur, a second year student of political science department at the Victoria University, was afflicted with typhoid one year ago which ... Read more

Gazi Tank Cricketers joined giants Abahani and Mohamme-dan SC in the Super League of Dhaka Premier Cricket with a thumping nine-wicket victory over Orient SC in the ninth round match on Friday. With this win Gazi Tanks took their tally to 14 points, just two points behind leaders Abahani and one adrift of Mohammedan means ... Read more

Popular outfits Abahani and Mohammedan braved the chilly weather to win their respective ninth round matches of the Premier Cricket League at different venues yesterday. The foggy weather enforced curtailed-overs affairs in all three matches and it was Shamsur Rahman who hogged the spotlight on the day by hitting a hundred to guide Mohammedan to ... Read more

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited signed a deal worth Tk 10 crore with the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Wednesday for beautification of Dhaka city ahead of the upcoming World Cup. As part of the agreement, the IBBL and the BCB will work together to decorate certain roads of the city with lights, balloons, light-emitting diode (LED) ... Read more

The Beximco Group struck a deal worth Tk 3.5 crore with the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday to sponsor the national cricket team in the forthcoming World Cup. Beximco replaced Grameenphone as the official sponsor of the Tigers. Grameenphone had had to pull out from the World Cup because of a conflict of interest with ... Read more

Two unbeaten half centuries by Javed Omar and Nasir Jamshed gave Old DOHS a 10-wicket win over Surjo Tarun in the eighth round of the Dhaka Premier League at Fatullah on Tuesday. Nazmul Hossain’s blistering half century helped CCS beat Prime Doleshwar by 20 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium and Gazi Tanks recorded a ... Read more

A six-a-side cricket tournament called Polar Ice Cream Street Cricket will start on January 21 to highlight and create the hype for the game before the upcoming World Cup; it was said at a press conference on Tuesday. The tournament, which will be held at the Dhanmondi Club Ground, is open to all and any ... Read more

Table-toppers Abahani returned to the winning ways crushing lowly Orient SC by 178 runs while fellow title chasers Mohammedan Sporting Club and Bangladesh Biman also won their respective eighth round Dhaka Premier League matches on Monday. Biman thrashed Kalabagan by 124 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium but not before a

Kolkata Knight Riders have snatched Shakib Al Hasan for Tk 30 million ($425,000) on the first day of IPL bid for cricketers. There were high expectations last year with the young all-rounder but frustratingly Shakib remained unsold, but this time the Shahrukh Khan-owned franchise bought him for a bargain price of $425,000

Cricket Coaching School (CCS) stunned Bangladesh Biman by nine runs in a low-scoring thriller, although the big guns had easier outings during yesterday’s Premier League games across the city. Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club beat Old DOHS by 66 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium with their English import Moeen Ali hitting his first ton, ... Read more

Queues for World Cup Cricket match tickets at the branches of the City and the Agrani Bank are getting smaller as most of the most-sought-after gallery and club house tickets for matches in demand have been sold out in three days till Tuesday. Cricket fans standing in queues alleged they were being offered only high-priced ... Read more

Thousands of desperate cricket fans were still waiting in front of different City Bank and Agrani Bank branches countrywide for a ticket of the World Cup matches amid endless pain. Some of them have already completed their 48 hours of waiting under the open sky and still did not gain entrance to the bank. The ... Read more

Thousands of people were seen waiting in the queues in front of different braches of The City Bank and Agrani Bank for the last two days for the coveted Word Cup tickets. Gopal Bhoumik, who hails from Barisal, was the first to get the e-voucher for his ticket from the City Bank’s Banani branch, one ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday came up with a new breakdown of World Cup tickets, which indicates that the number of tickets for public consumption might be lesser than what was anticipated earlier. The tickets of the World Cup will go on sale from today at 80 booths of two banks – The City ... Read more

Cricket lovers flocked to the entrances of “The City Bank” for the tickets of the World Cup Cricket Saturday evening though the sale of tickets was scheduled to start from 10:00am on Sunday. All the premises of the branches of the bank declared earlier as ticket outlets saw hundreds of people taking position at the ... Read more

With the World Cup 2011 tickets for the matches in Bangladesh going on sale across the country today the World Cup captains have hailed the passion of the local fans and the unique atmosphere for playing cricket in this part of the world. Bangladesh skipper Sakib al Hasan said the home fans are an integral ... Read more

The domestic cricket continued to lose its discipline as yet another unsavoury incident marred a Premier League match on Friday. Surjo Tarun’s Rajin Saleh and Asif Hossain of Orient Sporting Club were handed one-match suspensions each after they were involved in an ugly scuffle at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in

Residents of port city Chittagong have been asked to give their homes and shop a new lick of paint to make a bright, colourful impression on cricket World Cup visitors. Gearing up to host two group and a warm-up match, the Chittagong City Corporation has asked for fresh painting of the houses and shops along ... Read more

World’s number one all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been named as the captain while hard-hitting opener Tamim Iqbal was named as the vice-captain for the year 2011, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) revealed yesterday. The announcement of Shakib’s captaincy on a permanent basis was expected, but it is Tamim’s

Tickets for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 matches in Bangladesh will go on sale across the country from tomorrow but City Bank yesterday pointed the finger of blame at the BCB for not effectively communicating ticketing procedures to the public in due time. The alarming information came from City Bank’s chief communicating officer Mashrur ... Read more