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T20 World Cup  Symonds let Australia down: Ponting London: Australian captain Ricky Ponting says allrounder Andrew Symonds let himself and the team down with his latest off-field troubles. Symonds was sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday for what Cricket Australia described as an alcohol-related breach of team rules and other violations. Ponting ... Read more

You hypocrite. Cast your mind back to the World Cup in South Africa in 2003. The one where Ricky Ponting had begged for your inclusion because he could see the good in you. The one where Shane Warne returned a positive drugs test the morning of the first match against Pakistan. The scandal that left ... Read more

It needed only a few phone calls to take India and Ireland out of their minds for some hours. The Indian Cricket League had replaced the two Group A opponents in Bangladesh players’ minds as all the 13 remaining cricketers, who had joined the rebel league for money, have decided to return. The decision of ... Read more

Banned Indian Cricket League (ICL) duo Mosharraf Hossain and Monjurul Islam have submitted proof of their terminated contracts to Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) acting CEO Nizam Uddin Chowdhury yesterday for availing the amnesty offered by the board. Mosharraf and Monjurul, who played for Dhaka Warriors, turned in copies of e-mails from the organisers of the ... Read more

Bangladesh A posted 357 in the first innings against Maharashtra Cricket Association on the second day of their second four-dayer cricket match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday. In reply, Maharashtra Cricket Association scored 60 for the loss of two wickets before the two umpires pocketed the bails for the second day. Bangladesh ... Read more

India’s most successful captain Sourav Ganguly is set to herald the start of a new innings behind the microphone post-retirement after he was on Wednesday signed by ESPN STAR Sports as an expert analyst for the ICC World Twenty20, commencing in England on Saturday. Ganguly will be part of an ESPN STAR Sports commentary panel ... Read more

Oxford: The Bangladesh contingent has landed in England to start their World Twenty20 mission and it has been a pleasant arrival. The Tigers are the first among the top 10 teams to kick off their preparation for the tournament on English soil. The West Indies are of course currently on tour in England and are ... Read more

From laggards to champions! A fairytale ending for the Deccan Chargers. Captain Adam Gilchrist couldn’t have asked for anything better. The heart went out to Anil Kumble! He bowled superbly, taking four wickets, and restricting the Deccan Chargers to 143. It looked an achievable target but the Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen fell to a mixture ... Read more

CricInfo, undated Deccan Chargers took the bull in their emblem too seriously, as they came out charging to defend a modest total. They bowled with fire, they fielded aggressively, they sledged with a vengeance, and literally, almost by physical force, hustled Royal Challengers Bangalore out in a thrilling final that lived up to the occasion ... Read more

Pune: Royal Challengers Bangalore making it to the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) second season in South Africa on Sunday caught punters on the wrong foot. “Season 2 saw an overwhelmingly upward trend for bookies,” said a bookie on condition of anonymity. “With the Challengers making it to the finals, it has elevated ... Read more

ICC World Twenty20 Siddons targets India Bangladesh national cricket team have tar-getted beating India in their first match of the ICC World Twenty20s in England and are all set to depart amidst some modest but important concerns from coach Jamie Siddons. Siddons’s biggest worry is the lack of international exposure that the Tigers have had ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member Bangladesh A team for the three-match one-day series against Maharashtra Cricket Association. Left-handed Mehrab Hossain will lead the team while all-rounder Sohrawordi Shuvo has been named his deputy. The Rafiqul Alam-led selection panel included players like Nafis Iqbal and Hannan Sarker, who were out-of-favour for a long time, ... Read more

Former national skipper Habibul Bashar urged the new generation of cricketers to think twice before moving away from the mainstream. “Over the last eight months I realised the pains of staying away from the mainstream,” Bashar said explaining the reasons behind his decision to cut ties with the unapproved Indian Cricket League (ICL). It was ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Eleven earned second successive victory in the three-match Twenty20 Cricket series beating Indian Ranji Trophy side Maharashtra Cricket Association by 46 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. Hosts BCB Eleven, studded with the cricketers of Bangladesh national team for the next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Cup ... Read more

The England-bound national cricketers warmed up well with a comfortable 63-run victory against Maharashtra Cricket Association in the first T20 match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The most encouraging factor for the Tigers, who are scheduled to fly for England on May 23 to take part in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, ... Read more

Habibul Bashar was the first to come forward to take the opportunity of “amnesty” announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the players who joined the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL). The former national skipper submitted a letter to BCB president Lt Gen Sina Ibn Jamali yesterday mentioning that he wanted to avail the ... Read more

Indian Premier League Mashrafe’s losing debut Deccan Chargers climbed one place to third in the Indian Premier League table after a thrilling six-wicket win over struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at Wanderers on Saturday. Kolkata made 160-5 after they lost the toss and were sent in to bat and Deccan reached 166-4 off the last ball ... Read more

All-rounder Sakib al Hasan scooped the Garmeenphone-Prothom Alo player of the year award 2008 on Friday for his outstanding performance with bat and ball last year, especially in Test cricket. Sakib was the runaway winner ahead of weightlifter Fahima Akhter Moina and shooter Asif Hossain Khan, who bagged the runner-up awards for winning international

Sakib al Hasan returned to cricket after a long injury lay-off to inspire the Bangladesh cricket team to a 49-run victory over the Bangladesh A team in the third warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Sakib took the ball after the Tigers had suffered two embarrassing defeats to their second fiddles in ... Read more

Visiting Sri Lanka Development Squad took massive 375-run lead over GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team after dismissing the hosts cheaply for 164 in the first innings on the 3rd day of the 2nd four-day match at the Bir Shrestha Shaheed Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong on Tuesday. Replying to Sri Lanka’s huge first innings total ... Read more