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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

Bangladesh-Zimbabwe series begins today Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are geared up for what their coaches have described as the potential battle of spinners, which begins at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. The first match of the five-match one-day international series will begin at 9:00am and will be aired live on Bangladesh Television

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal received a morale booster before his comeback to the international match against Zimbabwe when he was handed the certificate of Wisden Test Player of the Year on Tuesday. Tamim, who missed Bangladesh’s previous series against New Zealand because of his injury, received the certificate from none other than Sakib al Hasan, ... Read more

A thrilling start From the viewers’ perspective, the 1987 World Cup can lay claim to being the most thrilling. A large number of matches, including the final, were close with the result not clear till the last over. For sheer drama and late twists, the match of the tournament probably was the one between hosts ... Read more

Bangladesh need to give their best if they want to beat Zimbabwe in the impending five-match one-day international series, warned coach Jaime Siddons on Monday. ‘Zimbabwe came here to play good cricket and they are an improving team. We’ve to be at our best and ensure that we maintain rhythm,’ Siddons said at the

The Bangladesh Cricket Board XI gave Zimbabwe a lesson of what they should expect in the five-match series winning the lone warm-up match by 29 runs at the BKSP on Monday. Young leg-spinner Nur Hossain produced a magic spell and 20-year-old BKSP boy Asif Ahmed, an off-spinner with high promise, aided him with 2-22 as ... Read more

New stars galore World Cups often work as a process of regeneration as new upstarts start to take centre stage and old hands move to the side, leaving their final marks on public memory by performing in a global event. So it was with the 1987 World Cup, where a lot of champion cricketers took ... Read more

Bangladesh cricket’s most popular face Shakib Al Hasan yesterday joined an elite group of cricketers from around the world as the International Cricket Council (ICC) appointed him the Think Wise campaign spokesperson for Bangladesh. The campaign aims at raising awareness about HIV and AIDs in order to make a positive impact

Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka captain, has reclaimed the top spot in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen, ending Sachin Tendulkar’s short-lived stay at the head of the table. Sangakkara’s performance in the first two Tests of the ongoing series against West Indies coincided with Tendulkar’s modest returns against New Zealand, leading to

Mashrafee, Tamim, Ashraful return for Zimbabwe series The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Sunday put to rest all the speculations over the captaincy of the national side when it retained all-rounder Sakib al Hasan for the prestigious post for next month’s one-day international series against Zimbabwe. The BCB named a 15-member squad for the five-match series ... Read more

Coach Allan Butcher feels Zimbabwe have a good chance to put a brake on Bangladesh’s winning spree in the upcoming five-match one-day series beginning on December 1. Bangladesh, who never lost a series to Zimbabwe at home in the last five years, will begin the series as the firm favourites having beaten a full-strength

Aussies open Cup account The 1987 World Cup was the first to be held outside England, co-hosted by India and Pakistan. The teams were the same as in 1983, and the format was also the same; eight teams in two groups of four, with teams playing each other twice, and the top two to progress ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan said he took over the captaincy for the Zimbabwe series very reluctantly as he was not mentally prepared for the job. ‘I did not want to be captain until the World Cup. It was just my personal choice, nothing else. I was not prepared for the job in

Divisional cricket should get the focus if the Bangladesh Cricket Board wants to take the game forward, suggested former national captains during a meeting with chief executive officer Manzur Ahmed on Sunday. Manzur, who took over the charge in September, invited the former skippers for an introductory meeting where various issues involving Bangladesh cricket came up ... Read more