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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

Ashraful ommited, Nafees recalled Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal will miss the upcoming ODI series against New Zealand as he underwent a surgery in Australia while former skipper Mohammad Ashraful was left out of the 14-member Bangladesh squad, announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday. Opener Shahriar Nafees got a national recall after two ... Read more

Manzur Ahmed, a former wicketkeeper-batsman, joined the Bangladesh Cricket Board as its new chief executive officer on Wednesday, ending the country’s cricket oversight body’s long wait for the top executive post. Manzur, who had a distinguished club and zonal cricket career spanning two decades in

Bangladesh cricketers had a fanfare when they were taken to the Kurmitola Golf Club on Tuesday for the practice of golf which has things common with cricket. All 26 the cricketers but Sakib al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal joined coach Jamie Siddons and his assistant Julien Fountain at the golf club where they stayed for ... Read more

The general perception on Abdur Razzak recently among the cricket fraternity has been that the left-arm spinner has lost his bite after his bowling action went through a change, but the bowler sees it quite differently. He believes that it is the introduction of Twenty20 cricket which has made the bowler’s job difficult these

South African all-rounder Lance Klusener finally refused to be the Bangladesh cricket team’s new bowling coach. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesperson Jalal Yunus said, “Klusener told us on Monday that he is not coming to Bangladesh.” “Klusener couldn’t convince his wife in this

Newly-appointed sports psychologist Soumendra Saha has joined the Bangladesh cricket team on Wednesday, hoping to enhance the mental strength of struggling Tigers. Soumendra was accompanied by his wife Srilekha Saha, a doctorate in sports psychology, when he visited the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to see the practice of national players in

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) are yet to get any response from Lance Klusener who is supposed to join the national cricket team in the first week of September as a specialist bowling coach. Apparently there is hardly any chance that the BCB could make the deal with the former South Africa all-rounder

Mohammad Asif’s ex-girl friend has launched a scathing attack at the bowler and accused him of being directly involved in match-fixing. As a panelist on a news channel, Asif’s former girl friend Veena Malik accused the fast bowler of being ‘criminal minded’ and a

 Former cricket captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of England. “I think there is a need to send out a message to youngsters…that crime does not pay,” Imran told Geo News on Sunday

The latest match-fixing scandal of Pakistan gripped the Bangladesh cricket team on Sunday as they resumed practice after two days off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. The Tigers were also under the scanner just two months ago at the same Lord’s after Sakib al Hasan had confessed a day before their Test match against England ... Read more