Cricket

Improvement of individual skills has now become a top priority as Bangladesh began their practice with the World Cup cricket in their mind at the Sher-a-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday. Coach Jamie Siddons divided the 26 players of the preliminary squad into four groups with one group called for net practice while the others were ... Read more

The newly-appointed fielding coach of the Bangladesh national cricket team Julien Fountain urged the cricketers to put the maximum efforts in order to elevate their performances. ‘I will give you blood, sweat and tears and in return you give performance,’ said Fountain who got himself introduced to the members of the preliminary squad for the ... Read more

Former skipper Khaled Mahmud will continue as the assistant coach of the national cricket team despite two recent high-profile appointments, said a senior official of Bangladesh Cricket Board. The fate of Mahmud was hanging in the balance after the BCB appointed South African Lance Klusener and ex-British baseball player Julien Fountain respectively as the bowling ... Read more

The ICC has announced the schedule for the warm-up games ahead of World Cup 2011. The 14 teams in the fray will play two games each, from Feb 12 to 18. The tournament gets underway on Feb 19. The warm-up fixtures will be played across the three host countries with Bangalore, Chennai, Chittagong, Colombo, Dhaka, ... Read more

BCB announces provisional squad for NZ series Nazimuddin has been recalled to the national fold when Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 26-member provisional squad for the upcoming five-match one-day series against New Zealand at home. The right-hander had started with lot of promise but soon jeopardised his international career by joining the banned Indian ... Read more

Julien Fountain, the new fielding coach of Bangladesh cricket team, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday and made no delay in working out his plan with head coach Jamie Siddons. Hours after his arrival, Fountain went to the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium and met the acting chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, Nizamuddin Chowdhury, to complete

Bangladesh will take on Canada and Pakistan in their two warm-up games ahead of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. The Tigers will take on the North Americans in Chittagong on February 12 and Pakistan in Dhaka on February 15. England will take on Canada, also in Dhaka on February 16 while England also play

Shakib Al Hasan’s six-wicket haul powered Worcestershire to their fifth win in the County Championship Division Two competition as they recorded a massive 238-run win over Surrey at the County Ground in New Road yesterday. Requiring 369 runs in the second innings to win the match, Surrey were already in

A gleeful Tamim Iqbal said yesterday that he had always wanted to win an ICC Award after he was nominated among sixteen top international cricketers for the Test Player of the Year category in the top cricketing awards. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the different nominations for the annual honour for the best players ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday formally announced ex-British baseball player Julien Fountain as the new fielding coach for the national side upto the World Cup 2011. The 40-year old, who has been in cricket coaching for nearly two decades, will be arriving in Dhaka on Thursday to start his stint with the Tigers, the BCB ... Read more

The upcoming New Zealand tour to Bangladesh could only have one-day matches due to the upcoming World Cup early next year. The schedule was supposed to have two Tests and a three-match one-day series but it could

The new International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele, Kandy which will be one of the venues to host matches of next year’s cricket world cup will be renamed as the Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium. The Central Provincial Council in Kandy has taken this decision unanimously to

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has at long last decided to appoint a permanent chief executive officer after running with an interim for almost three years. Manzur Ahmed, a former cricketer and long-time chief executive of Brunei Cricket Association, has

Bangladesh take on Scotland today in a one-off one-day international at Glasgow. The Tigers are on their last leg of their United Kingdom tour where they have already completed two series against England and Ireland respectively. Last Friday, the Tigers leveled their two-match series with a 6-wicket win against

Former Pakistan Test captain Shahid Afridi vowed to return to England on Sunday, saying the limited over series starting next month will be the launch pad for his ambitions to win the 2011 World Cup. The 30-year-old announced he would retire from Test cricket after the second and final Test

LONDON: Salman Butt was appointed Pakistan’s new Test captain by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday after Shahid Afridi’s decision to quit Test cricket. Butt, who was serving as Afridi’s deputy in the first Test against Australia at Lord’s, will lead

Cricinfo After a disappointing show in the first game, Bangladesh’s bowlers hit back with a disciplined performance to restrict Ireland to 189 and set up a six-wicket win to draw the series 1-1 at Stormont on Friday. Bangladesh held the upper hand from the very beginning, nipping out early wickets in overcast conditions and

LONDON: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said ON Friday he would retire from Test cricket following the second Test against Australia at Headingley starting next Wednesday. Afridi made his announcement to BBC Radio after leading Pakistan to a 150-run defeat in the first

CricInfo Captain William Porterfield led from the front with a century as Ireland outplayed Bangladesh by seven wickets in the first one-dayer of the two-match series at Stormont in Belfast yesterday. The left-hander struck 108 off 116 balls with seven boundaries and three sixes as Ireland reached

Shakib Al Hasan remained on top of the ICC one-day all-rounders’ rankings despite running into a trough. The latest ratings, released by the game’s governing body, confirmed that the left-handed all-rounder has 390 points, followed by Pakistan captain