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Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal handed over the cheques for Tk 1,00,000 to each of the 15 members of the Asian Games silver medal winning women’s cricket team at a function at the GP-BCB Cricket Academy Complex on Monday. He also gave Tk 50,000 each to the seven officials of the squad. Kamal ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board praised the passion and dedication of all the spectators who came to watch the third ODI match between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on Monday despite having some time adjusting problems. The match was originally scheduled to start at 2:30pm but later it was held a daytime because of poor floodlight conditions at ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board avoided a major embarrassment on Sunday when it cancelled today’s day-night match against Zimbabwe for insufficient light and decided to hold a day game instead. The match, third of the five-match series scheduled to begin at 2:30pm, will now begin at 9:00am. The decision was made after a drama in the ... Read more

Zimbabwe wicketkeeper-batsman Tatenda Taibu feels that if his side keep on fighting then they can make a comeback in the third one-dayer today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. He added that in international cricket every team goes through bad patches, from which you need to learn how to bounce back

Bangladesh will go into the third one-day international against Zimbabwe today without their coach Jamie Siddons, who left for Australia to be with his pregnant girlfriend Kim late on Sunday. Siddons, who attended a practice session in the morning, hardly had any idea about the tour and hastily arranged an air ticket of the Australia-bound ... Read more

Bangladesh ace left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak once again crowned his career with a unique hat-trick and a five-wicket haul in the second ODI of the five-match series against Zimbabwe on Friday. Razzak had Prosper Utseya caught by Naeem Islam at long-on for 32 in the last ball of his ninth over and then returned to ... Read more

Cornered tigers roar The 1992 World Cup. held in Australia and New Zealand, saw many innovations that had appeared in the intervening period between the last tournament and the current one. Most of the 39 matches were day-night affairs, with players wearing coloured uniforms that had the players’ names emblazoned on the back. For the ... Read more

Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigum-bura lashed out at his careless batsmen for throwing their wickets after losing to hosts Bangladesh by six wickets in the second of the five-match ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. They were bundled out for a modest 191 runs in 46.2 overs as the spinners of Bangladesh

Bangladesh skipper Sakib al Hasan is set to finish the year as leading one-day wicket-taker after he grabbed 4-39 against Zimbabwe on Friday. His third four-wicket haul took his tally to 42 from 25 matches, making him already the most successful one-day bowler in the calendar year. He overtook Ryan Harris of Australia, who

Bangladesh-Zimbabwe 2nd ODI today Skipper Sakib al Hasan is likely to get his preferred team when Bangladesh will play the second one-day international against Zimbabwe on Friday. Sakib called the team selection for the first match into question saying he would have liked middle-order batsmen Roqibul Hassan and

Former Zimbabwe cricketer and at present their batting consultant Grant Flower thinks his team has enough firepower to repeat their feat in their second one-day international against Bangladesh today. Zimbabwe eked out a narrow nine-run win in the first ODI on Wednesday to take an unexpected 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Flower joined the ... Read more

Cup facts The 1987 World Cup was the fourth cricket World Cup, and the first to be held in the Indian subcontinent. Neighbours India and Pakistan were the co-hosts of the tournament, which was spread over 21 venues across the two countries. The format was the same as in 1983: two groups of four with ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold a concert as well as a fireworks show at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) to celebrate Bangladesh’s 10 years in Test cricket this month. The game’s governing body initially did not think of any programme to celebrate the decade of Test status although all former Test captains of ... Read more

Zimbabwe Take 1-0 Lead Batting fallacy cost Tigers Four run outs punctuated with a number of ill-conceived shots made Bangladesh pay heavily as the hosts fell to Zimbabwe by nine runs yesterday in the first game of their five-match one-day series. After the visitors put up a 210-run target on the predominantly batsman-friendly Sher-e-Bangla National ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan is known for his outspokenness and his monosyllabic reply to many questions, still the manner in which he lambasted his team-mates after Bangladesh’s nine run defeat to Zimbabwe in the first one-day international on Wednesday came as a big shock and surprise to many. After his gallant batting effort proved futile, Sakib, ... Read more

Micromax ODI Cup Bangladesh Vs Zimbabwe 2010 The Ashraful fantasy Mohammad Ashraful still looks odds on to walk out to bat on Friday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium since he is the only name the decision-makers trust and try for all their money’s worth. If news from within the Bangladesh team’s think-tank is to be ... Read more

Bangladesh ace spinner Abdur Razzak achieved the most coveted milestone of his career taking his ODI haul to 153 wickets when he sent four Zimbabwe batsmen back to the pavilion in the first of the five-match one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday. Razzak was the pick of the bowlers taking four wickets ... Read more

Tiring travelogue The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the most colourful, and more widely watched than any of its predecessors. It was the first to be staged away from England and the first to be held in the subcontinent. A lot of matches were extremely close affairs; in the first match itself the co-hosts Pakistan ... Read more

Zimbabwe skipper Elton Chigum-bura always believed they were going to win the first one-day international against Bangladesh despite the game was hanging in the balance for most of the period. Zimbabwe won the match by nine runs but not before Sakib al Hasan gave them a scare with a brilliant half-century. Sakib was out at ... Read more

When Bangladesh kick off their five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe today there would be only one expectation: maintain the purple patch leading upto next year’s World Cup. The Tigers are buoyant after their recent 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand and go into the first one-dayer at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur with the tag ... Read more