Cricket

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka Dhanmondi Club beat Eskaton SS by 76 runs in the lone match of the Metropolis First Division Cricket League at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Batting first, Dhanmondi club scored 235 runs losing five wickets in stipulated 50 overs with Murad Hossain scoring unbeaten 77 runs and Mustafizur ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka Partex SC earned an exciting two-wicket victory over Old DOHS SC in the Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur Friday. In the day’s other matches, Cricket Coaching School (CCS) recorded a comfortable 85-run win over Victoria SC at the Narayanganj Osmani Stadium in Fatullah while Young Pegasus ... Read more

PTI Hamilton: Swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag eclipsed Mohammad Azharuddin to become the fastest Indian to score a hundred in an ODI when he hit a 60-ball 103 against New Zealand in the fourth one-dayer here on Wednesday. At an individual score of 97, Sehwag danced down the pitch and plundered a Daniel Vettori delivery over ... Read more

AFP, Karachi Younus Khan broke several records on his way to a pugnacious maiden triple hundred as the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka headed for a draw here on Tuesday. The 31-year-old Pakistan captain foiled all Sri Lanka’s attempts to take his wicket, finishing with an unbeaten 306 as Pakistan closed the fourth ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Old DOHS and Bangladesh Biman continued their unbeaten run in the Dhaka Premier Cricket League with the defending champions Abahani hot on their heels after playing their respective fourth matches on Wednesday. A fine 96 runs by skipper Mehrab Hossain Jr helped DOHS hand Mohammedan Sporting Club a 38-run defeat while Mashrafee bin ... Read more

Tri-Nation Cricket UNB, Khulna Bangladesh tasted their first win in the Grameenphone Women’s Tri-Nation Cricket Series beating visiting Sri Lanka by six wickets at Shahid Flight Lieutenant Motiur Rahman Stadium in Khulna Friday. Bangladesh almost made their exit in

Agence France-Presse . Chennai India’s cricket selectors on Friday picked Lakshmipathy Balaji for the New Zealand tour, after a four-year Test absence for the fit-again seamer. Balaji, 27, who last played a Test match in March, 2005 before suffering a career-threatening stress fracture to his back, was named in a 16-man squad for the three-Test ... Read more

Afp, Karachi Pakistan cricket received a further blow Friday with the cancellation of a tri-series in Dubai scheduled for late March due to the unavailability of the Sri Lankan team, a top official said. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief operating officer Salim Altaf told AFP that the event would be scrapped. “We have been told ... Read more

Sports Reporter Old DOHS Sports Club, Cricket Coaching School(CCS) and BKSP won their respective matches on Thursday. At the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Old DOHS Sports Club composed a sensational five-run win over Surjo Torun Club. Batting first Old DOHS Sports Club scored 183 for the loss of nine wickets in the allotted ... Read more

Mohammad Isam If cricket officials of the country were proud of Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Mohammad Ashraful on Friday, they should now be thankful to the duo for bringing some much-needed buzz into this year’s domestic competition and lure a sponsor that they are yet to get for the premier club event. The Premier League ... Read more

Sports Reporter The phrase ‘when the going gets tough he gets going’ perhaps fits more appropriately for Mashrafe Bin Mortaza. A cricketer with both his knees operated on and has been fighting against freakish injury ever since his Bangladesh debut in 2001 added another daring chapter in his never-say-die career on Friday. He entered the ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Mohammad Ashraful has been retained as the captain of the national cricket team until the West Indies tour in June-July, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Saturday.  The BCB was under pressure to replace Ashraful after the 24-year-old right-handed batsman had managed to score only 12 runs in three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe ... Read more

Sports Reporter Sri Lanka National Women’s Cricket team beat Pakistan National Women’s Cricket team by three wickets in their ODI match of the Grameenphone Women’s Tri-Nation Cricket Tournament at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra on Saturday. Trailing Pakistan’s 103 off 41.5 overs, Sri Lanka sailed home in 30.4 overs scoring 105 for the loss ... Read more

Sports Reporter Mashrafe Bin Mortaza hit an amazing figure when the Kolkata Knight Riders purchased the Bangladesh fast bowler for six-lakh dollars (US) after a sensational bidding in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in Goa yesterday. There was more good news for the Tigers as Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful was sold to Mumbai Indians, ... Read more

Bishwajit Roy When the news first broke, Mashrafe bin Mortaza’s first reaction was astonishment, which goes to explain his first words. “This is totally unexpected,” said the man who has been dubbed the Narail Express by adulating

Biman take third place Staff Correspondent Roqibul Hassan and Dollar Mahmud shared an unbroken 65-run stand off 33 balls to help Mohammedan Sporting Club lift the Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket Tournament title defeating Gazi Tanks by 20 runs at the

Grameenphone Women’s Tri-Nation Series Bangladesh better now Ameeruddin Zain Bangladesh women’s cricket team captain Salma Khatun believes that her team has come a long way since the Asia Cup in Colombo last year. “We have played two practice matches prior to the series and I think we are a much improved side now,” said Salma ... Read more

Premier Twenty20 final today Staff Correspondent Opener Imrul Kayes and seamer Rubel Hossain starred with bat and ball to help newly-promoted Gazi Tanks crush holders Abahani by eight wickets to reach the final of the Premier Twenty20 Tournament on Tuesday. Mohammedan Sporting Club, who defeated Bangladesh Biman by five wickets later in the second semi-final, ... Read more

Afp, Colombo Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralidaran equalled the one-day bowling record before India clinched the series with a crushing 147-run victory in the third match at the R Premadasa Stadium here on Tuesday. The tourists posted a challenging 363-5 following rapidfire centuries from Yuvraj Singh (117) and Virender Sehwag (116) and then dismissed the ... Read more

Agence France-Presse . Kingston West Indies have promised to make life tough for England when the sides start a four-Test series today at Sabina Park. England will start the series as the big favourites, having not lost a Test series to the Caribbean side in the last 15 years. That remarkable statistic takes on fuller ... Read more