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16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 T20 women fly the flag The Bangladesh women’s cricket team moved into the Twenty20 semifinals while the national hockey team scared their mighty opponents Japan before going down 3-1 in their first match of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China yesterday. It was a mixed day for the chess ... Read more

Bangladeshi cricketers may have had some bitter experience about the Indian Premier League, but there has never been any lack of interest among the Tigers about league. It was evident when most of the members of the Bangladesh national cricket team registered their names for the IPL 2011 auction. The Bangladesh Cricket Board has received ... Read more

Captaincy question remains The national cricketers will get back to business on November 21 after Eid holidays to carry on the preparation for next month’s one-day series against Zimbabwe; their last international engagement before the 2011 World Cup. The Tigers are scheduled to travel to Chittagong after the vacation for three days as

ICC Cricket world cup history 1979: West Indian power exercised Four years after lifting the Cup in the tournament’s inaugural edition, Clive Lloyd and his team were back in England for a repeat performance of equal, if not greater, dominance. The 1979 Prudential World Cup followed the same format as the first — two groups ... Read more

All-rounder Elias Sunny played a superb unbeaten knock of 87 runs to help Dhaka clinch their third National Cricket League one-day title with a three-wicket win over Barisal in the final at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday. Sunny clubbed three consecutive boundaries in the 48th over in

Bangla-desh eves opened their Asian Games cricket campaign with a crushing 10-wicket victory over Hong Kong in a Group B match at the Guanggong International Cricket Stadium in Guangzhou on Sunday. Chess was the only other sport that gave Bangladesh some kind of success on the second day of the meet. Opting to bat first, ... Read more

As it was the inaugural edition and international limited overs cricket was just beginning, a lot of records were set in this 1975 World Cup. England opener John Jameson faced the first ball in World Cup history, bowled by India’s medium-pacer Madan Lal

NCL one-day final today Dhaka were eying to play national opener Tamim Iqbal in the National Cricket League one-day version final against Barisal, scheduled to be held today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Tamim was looking for an opportunity to have some match practice ahead of the five match one-day series against Zimbabwe as he ... Read more

BCB yet to take any action Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has yet to take any step regarding the fiasco in the 100-day countdown ceremony for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. True it was the duty of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to stage the programme, but the game’s governing body of the country just

The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) has decided yesterday to postpone the Premier League Twenty20 tournament. CCDM chairman GS Hasan Tamim confirmed yesterday that the event will probably be held later, making way for the 50-over competition which is slated to begin on December 8 or

Barisal batsman Nasiruddin Faruque has been suspended for today’s National Cricket League final after being found guilty of dissent in Friday’s game at the Sher-e-Bangla. The incident occurred in the last game of the second phase when the left-handed opener was given out leg-before in the fifth over against Dhaka. There was a loud

Final to be held tomorrow Dhaka’s 79-run win over Barisal yesterday took them to the final of the National Cricket League’s one-day competition, but their opponents would only be identified after authorities confirmed with the playing conditions. Dhaka, Rajshahi and Barisal were all equal on ten points but according to the by-laws, “the team

Pakistan vs West Indies As it was early days for limited overs cricket with teams still finding their feet in the format, a lot of the matches were woefully one-sided. There was one match though, that would have had current viewers of thrill-a-minute T20 matches gnawing through their nails. It was the only match in ... Read more

BCB Under-17s took the series 3-0 against the visiting CAB Under-17s as they posted a 51-run victory in the third one-dayer at the Sylhet Divisional Stadium yesterday. Salman hit 65 as BCB Under-17 scored 257 runs for nine after deciding to bat first. Javed was the other notable scorer with 39 while Mosaddek added 37 ... Read more

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Countdown botched up The few thousand fans that turned up at midnight on Wednesday at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban to mark the 100-day countdown for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was evidence of the increased enthusiasm amongst the public about hosting an event of such ... Read more

Some big names bowed out of the international limelight after this World Cup. Dennis Amiss, Alan Knott, Tony Greig and John Snow left the scene to make their way to play in the World Series in Australia. Great West Indian player Rohan Kanhai also bade farewell. On the other hand, three all-time greats were taking ... Read more

The finalists of the National Cricket League one-day version will be decided today with all four teams, competing in the second phase, having some kind of chance. Barisal will face star-studded Dhaka at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium while favourites Rajshahi will take on the NCL’s dark-horse Khulna in the

Bangladesh Cricket Board announced the itinerary of the Zimbabwe series early on Thursday with the first of the five-match one-day series being scheduled for December 1. The Zimbabwe cricket team will arrive in Dhaka on November 26 and will play a warm-up match on November 29 against the BCB XI at the BKSP before the

The Bangladesh Tourism Board signed an agreement with the ICC Development Limited on Wednesday to become the local partner for the Bangladesh part of the World Cup 2011. The deal, worth around Tk 5 crore, will allow the newly-formed tourism board to showcase Bangladesh to the world during the eight matches to be held in ... Read more

Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly hailed Bangladesh for the progress they have made since entering into Test cricket exactly 10 years ago on this day against his India. Ganguly had tossed the coin with Naimur Rahman in Bangladesh’s inaugural Test on November 10, 2000, marking a new journey for the Tigers in top flight