Cricket

Mohammad Ashraful is likely to lead the team in the Twenty20 competition of the XVI Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, to be held from November 12 to 27. The Rafiqul Alam-led selection panel already submitted the 15-member squad for board approval and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is likely to announce the

The National Cricket League has been deferred by six days due to persistent rain and inclement weather across the country. The longer-version will now start from October 4 instead of September 29. “The grounds are not ready to hold the matches due to the rain. It also upset the teams’

The two-day players’ transfer for the Dhaka First Division Cricket League will be held from September 29 to 30. Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) said in a statement: “For the 2010-2011 cricket season the players from First Division Cricket League teams who want to transfer to the Premier League/2nd Division/3rd Division League must acquire ... Read more

Khulna posted an eight-wicket victory over Rajshahi in the rain-interrupted opening match of the Women’s National Cricket League at the Sylhet Divisional Stadium yesterday. The T20 match was reduced to a five-over affair where Rajshahi managed 37 runs for five wickets after being sent into

While England off-spinner Graeme Swann is having the best phase of his career, Shakib Al Hasan is not far behind. In Test match cricket, the left-arm spinner has had a splendid two years when he took 45 wickets at an average of 33.0 with a strike

Former Bangladesh skipper Khaled Mahmud finally decided not to continue as the assistant coach of the national side despite the Bangladesh Cricket Board trying hard to retain his services.  Mahmud quit the post earlier this month citing lack of specific job after Bangladesh Cricket Board appointed two Englishmen Ian Pont and Julien Fountain respectively as

BCB president completes one-year in office Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal will complete his first year in the hotseat today that drew mixed reactions from country’s cricket fraternity. Kamal, a ruling party lawmaker and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the finance ministry, was appointed BCB president on September 23, 2009, nine

If you happen to visit the ICC (International Cricket Council) website these days, you will find a glaring error. Under the venue guide for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur is credited to be the ground where the opening ceremony will take place. The website informs: “Established in 2006, the venue was ... Read more

Only 6,000-7,000 seats on offer during NZ series If you are planning to go to the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur next month to watch the one-day series between Bangladesh and New Zealand, you better book your tickets early. It is very apparent now that a very small number of spectators can watch the matches ... Read more

Ian Pont, the English bowling coach of Bangladesh cricketers, after a gap of five years met the boy he thought to be an ideal fast bowler. He first spotted the boy at the MRF Pace Bowling Foundation in Chennai in 2005 and highly rated him. Pont has preserved the picture of the Bangladesh boy and ... Read more

Rajshahi take on Khulna in the opening match of the 4th Women’s National Cricket League Twenty20 competition on September 25 at the Sylhet Divisional Stadium. The six-team tournament is being held to facilitate the preparation for the XVI Asian Games in Guangzhou where the Bangladesh team will be participating in the women’s cricket

Bangladesh Cricket Board has made allout efforts to change the mind of former national skipper Khaled Mahmud, who was frustrated at having no specific duties to do and resigned from the post of national team assistant coach earlier this month. Newly-appointed chief executive officer Manzur Ahmed spared some time to speak to

Ian Pont, the newly recruited English coach for the pace bowlers of the Bangladesh national cricket team, aims to improve control and variation as he started working with the speedsters for the fist time at the Mirpur indoor stadium on Sunday. Pont, who worked as a fast bowling coach of his former county club Essex ... Read more

Former skipper Sakib al Hasan relished his time with the English county side Worcestershire as he returned to home on Sunday and spent few hours at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium with his practising team-mates. ‘I am happy but not satisfied as it could have been much better,’ Sakib told reporters later. The mercurial all-rounder, who ... Read more

Mushfiqur Rahim is fast on the mend from a shoulder injury he suffered during training on Friday. National team physio Michael Henry confirmed yesterday that scans on his right shoulder have revealed nothing alarming, but the wicketkeeper would be asked to rest. “We did a scan on him and it showed some inflammation in his ... Read more

The newly-appointed bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket team, Ian Pont, arrived on Thursday and took no time to meet his pupils practising at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Pont, the former bowling consultant of county side Northamptonshire, reached Dhaka in the morning and just dropped his luggage at the hotel before rushing to stadium to ... Read more

Shakib Al Hasan might have only made 14 in his final county innings of the season but his team Worcestershire set themselves on course for promotion into Division One of the County Championship, beating Sussex by four wickets yesterday. Worcestershire’s promotion would depend on the result of the match between Derbyshire and

A double-strike from Mehdi Hasan Ujjal guided Abahani to the Bordoloi Trophy as the three-time Bangladesh League champions handed an easy 3-0 defeat to Nepal’s Three Star in the final of the 59th edition of the provincial meet in Assam yesterday. Apart from the Ujjal brace, new midfielder Imtiaz Sultan Jitu struck the other to ... Read more

Holders Rajshahi will face Sylhet at the Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore in the opening match of the 12th National Cricket League to be held from September 29 to October 2, Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Wednesday. In the other two matches of the opening round, Chittagong will take on Barisal at the

Shakib returns on September 18 Shakib Al Hasan confessed that he had no qualms of being lonely in the West Midlands of England. “I am enjoying my time so much that I don’t feel homesick,” said all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan while talking with the Daily Star Sport over phone yesterday, moments before he left home ... Read more