Cricket

Bangladesh Biman became runners-up in the Ispahani Tea Premier Division Cricket League by defeating CCS by six wickets at the Fatullah stadium on Monday. Both Biman and Abahani, who lost to Mohammedan the same day, finished their campaign with 25 points but Biman clinched the second spot on the head to head results. Batting first, ... Read more

Surjotorun Club scored an emphatic 64-run victory against Khelaghar SKS in Ispahani Tea Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Saturday. Asked to bat first, Surjotorun accumulated 211 for eight in its stipulated 50 overs with national ace opening batsman Junaid Siddique hitting the topscore with a splendid 57. ... Read more

Abahani Limited and Mohammedans Sporting Club brought up the huge exciting finishing of the Ispahani Tea Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League when the both archrivals won their respective matches of the super league phase on Friday to set a must win platform for them to clinch the title in the last round. The two traditional ... Read more

Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan is likely to be seen in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League in the last round’s crucial game between Mohammedans Sporting Club and Abahani Limited on December 21. In a bid to retain the title after eight years Mohammedans are currently chasing behind the all-rounder, who is now out of the ... Read more

Uttara Sporting Club registered a 47-run victory against Eskaton Sabuj Sangha in the First Division Super League match at BKSP yesterday. Put to bat first Uttara SC scored 212 for 9 in the stipulated 50 overs with Nantu Kumar scoring 61 runs while Shafiqul Alam 38. Mustafizur Rahman Faisdal took four wickets for 22 runs ... Read more

Leading cellular phone operator of the country Grameenphone Limited (GP) retained the national cricket team’s sponsorship rights for the next two years at a cost of record Tk 10 crore, this was announced on Thursday. One of the significant changes in the new deal is that this time the national women’s cricket team has also ... Read more

Orient Sporting Club secured an exciting one-wicket victory over City Club in the First Division Cricket Super League match at BKSP yesterday. Rezwan Kabir hit 89 off 88 balls as City Club scored 230 for seven in 42 overs and in reply, Orient reached the target with 234 for nine in 41.4 overs thanks to ... Read more

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has been made the new captain of the Kings XI Punjab replacing Yuvraj Singh who’s position had been in jeopardy for a few weeks. When the news was announced by the Kings XI it came as no surprise that Yuvraj had been relived of the captaincy. Reports have emerged during ... Read more

Mohammad Sharif’s splendid all-round show ousted star-studded Gazi Tank from the race as Victoria Sporting Club booked a super league place in the Ispahani Tea Premier Division Cricket League with an 11-run victory at BKSP yesterday. Batting at number eight Sharif a 63-ball 71 that contained seven fours and a six as Victoria posted 222 ... Read more

Having smashed a number of records in his awe-inspiring career, Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar became the first player in the history of the game to cross the 17,000-run mark on Thursday. Tendulkar was chasing the milestone from the onset of the series against Australia and achieved the feat when he, requiring seven runs coming ... Read more

Shakib Al Hasan will retain the Bangladesh captaincy for the five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe at home with Mashrafe Mortaza failing to prove his fitness following knee surgery. The Bangladesh Cricket Board has announced a 14-member squad for the first three ODIs starting October 27 and the most notable inclusion is that of the left-arm ... Read more

From stuff.co.nz Daniel Vettori played out another commanding performance at the New Zealand Cricket Awards tonight, claiming a hattrick of leading accolades. The New Zealand captain was predictably crowned player of the year while he was also awarded the Winsor Cup for first class bowling and the JR Reid best allrounder trophy. It was little ... Read more

From zeenews Mumbai: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting feels the seven ODIs against India are a case of one too many and the series should have been a best-of-five affair to keep the players motivated. “It (seven-match ODI bilateral series) is probably too many. Five is enough head-to-head in any one series. We all know the ... Read more

The reinvention of one-day cricket has been a hot topic of discussion over the past few months and Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, has joined the debate by calling for a points system to give the format “significant meaning”. Speaking ahead of Australia’s departure for India for a seven-match ODI series, Ponting gave the example ... Read more

Big Boss T20 Premier League 2009 Abahani scrape thru’ to semis Abahani set up an early showdown with bitter rivals Mohammedan Sporting Club after an eventful group stage of the Big Boss Premier T20 League that also offered a surprise package in Khelaghar Samaj Kalyan Samity in the semifinal line-up of the season’s curtain-riser. Abahani ... Read more

The ICC Champions Trophy has gone a long way to ensuring the continuance of ODIs, the captains of Australia and New Zealand, the two finalists, have said. Since the advent of the Twenty20 game, which has drawn huge crowds around the world, there has been increasing talk of the 50-over format falling away. But Ricky ... Read more

India and Pakistan, Australia and South Africa find themselves in different groups for the 2011 World Cup. The groupings for the tournament, to be held on the subcontinent, were approved on the second day of the ICC Board meeting in Johannesburg. The 14 teams have been divided into two groups of seven. At the meeting, ... Read more

Sources from the Indian Premier League have told a TV channel that there is ‘no ban’ on Wasim Akram commentating in India. The clarification comes after reports that emerged in Pakistan that the pacer-turned-commentator had reportedly been denied permission by the Indian government to commentate in the upcoming Champions League tournament. Wasim Akram, the former ... Read more

Ricky Ponting, after becoming the third batsman to cross 12,000 runs in one-day cricket, has said he is chasing milestones set by Sachin Tendulkar. Ponting chalked up his 28th ODI century, an unbeaten 111 from 115 balls, to help Australia demolish England and march into the ICC Champions Trophy final. Ponting paid tribute to Tendulkar, ... Read more

Almost all the excitement of the inter-club cricketers transfer was virtually buried much before the start of the official bourse after all the big clubs ensured their targeted players. However there was no shortage of enthusiasm among the supporters on the second day of the transfer when title contenders Mohammedan SC turned up yesterday to ... Read more