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Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan on Thursday claimed that until recently, new players were unwelcome in the national team, as a strong syndicate of seniors always opposed their inclusion. Speaking to a press conference at his Bexmico office, Nazmul said once he took over the board he successfully dismantled the syndicate, contributing to their recent ... Read more

With the series in the back, Bangladesh are planning for some experiment during today’s fourth one-day international against Zimbabwe at Mirpur. Keeping an eye on the upcoming ICC World Cup, the Tigers may hand leg-spinner Jubair Hossain and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam an ODI debut while pace

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Thursday that they have turned down an International Cricket Council proposal to play a tournament in Dubai before the upcoming World Cup. The ICC had invited the BCB to play the tournament, featuring its associate members who have qualified for the tournament. The tournament is scheduled to take place ... Read more

Bangladesh put up a clinical performance with both bat and ball to thrash Zimbabwe by 124 runs in the third one-day international and wrap-up the five-match series in Dhaka on Wednesday. The proceedings followed the script of second match in Chittagong as the openers put another century stand and Mashrafee bin Murtaza rattled Zimbabwe with his ... Read more

Bangladesh’s batting showed rare consistency during the first three games of the ongoing five-match one-day international series against Zimbabwe which helped them to wrap up the series without any serious hiccup. Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe in all three matches to clinch the series but more than that, it showed that the performance graph of the batting unit ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team will be looking to wrap-up the five-match one-day international series when they face Zimbabwe in the third match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. Bangladesh are leading the series 2-0 thanks to their two convincing wins in the first two matches, which also made them firm favourites in today’s day-night affair starting ... Read more

Zimbabwe are preparing for a do-or-die contest as they take on Bangladesh in the third one-day international of five-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. Zimbabwe must win the game if they are to stay alive in the series after going down 0-2 in Chittagong with defeats in the first two matches. ‘It is pretty ... Read more

Bangladesh will continue to experiment with their batting order if the opening partnership can give them a start similar to the one in the second one-day international against Zimbabwe, said skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza on Tuesday. The Tigers reshuffled their batting order in the second ODI after openers put a 158-run stand and bat out 33 ... Read more

The 1998 match at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad is still vivid in the memory of Akram Khan. Bangladesh were already 12 years into international cricket and still searching for their maiden win. In familiar conditions against a side like Kenya, it was their best chance to get a breakthrough. But there were no ... Read more

A superb opening partnership coupled with skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza’s fiery opening spell helped Bangladesh take a 2-0 lead in the ongoing five-match series against Zimbabwe as the host registered a 68-run win at Chittagong on Sunday. Opener Tamim Iqbal (76) and Anamul Haque (80) put up 158 runs that enabled Bangladesh to post 251-7 before ... Read more

A superb opening partnership coupled with skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza’s fiery opening spell helped Bangladesh take a 2-0 lead in the ongoing five-match series against Zimbabwe as the host registered a 68-run win at Chittagong on Sunday. Opener Tamim Iqbal (76) and Anamul Haque (80) put up 158 runs that enabled Bangladesh to post 251-7 before ... Read more

Bangladesh management’s experimentation with the batting order of the national cricket team nearly backfired against Zimbabwe in the second one-day international at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Sunday. Though the experiment had little impact on the result it was about to bring a catastrophe despite a formidable start in the game. Opener Tamim Iqbal and

Bangladesh skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said he is yet to be fully satisfied with his bowling despite putting a match-winning performance in the second one-day international against Zimbabwe on Sunday. Mashrafee, who picked up two wickets in the opening game, showed a glimpse of his previous self when he bowled opening batsman Hamilton Masakadza with a ... Read more

A 20-member visually impaired Bangladesh cricket team will leave for South Africa this week to participate in the fourth Blind World Cup Cricket to be held in Cape Town from November 26 to December 9. Barring Zimbabwe, nine Test playing countries and Nepal will participate in the tournament, organised by the World Blind Cricket Council. Hafizur Rahman ... Read more

Zimbabwean skipper Elton Chigumbura believes that the five-match one-day international series is not yet over for the visitors despite them going 0-2 down in Chittagong on Sunday. Bangladesh, followed their 87-run win in the first ODI with a 68 runs success that took them closer to winning the series with three matches left in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Cricket Board is set to reshuffle their standing committee in the next board meeting, BCB president Nazmul Hasan said on Sunday. It looks like that there will be some major changes in the cricket committee of Dhaka Metropolis and cricket operations sector. AZM Nasir, the current CCDM chairman will have to step

Bangladesh are likely go into the second one-day international against Zimbabwe in Chittagong today with the same combination despite their decision of fielding three pace bowlers, which nearly backfired in the opening game. Bangladesh decorated their bowling attack with three pacers – Mashrafee bin Murtaza, Al-Amin Hossain and Rubel Hossain – considering the dew factor,

All-rounder Sakib al Hasan is in a two-way battle respectively with team-mates Mashrafee bin Murtza and Tamim Iqbal as far as individual performance is concerned during the ongoing one-day international series against Zimbabwe. The prolific cricketer is jointly country’s second highest wicket taker along with Mashrafee (175 wickets), though the latter is one international

Sakib al Hasan returned to one-day international cricket with a stunning all-round performance leading Bangladesh to a crushing 87-run win over Zimbabwe in Chittagong on Friday. Sakib scored 101 off 99 balls and followed that with 4-41 with the ball as Bangladesh scored 281-7 runs in 50 overs and later dismissed the visitors for 194 in ... Read more

Every time Sakib al Hasan takes the bat or ball he gets a reason to look for something special in the ongoing series against Zimbabwe. The first one-day international in Chittagong on Friday was also not an exception. Making a comeback in the ODI side, Sakib, the newly-appointed vice-captain, saw the team wobbling at 3-31, meaning he ... Read more