Cricket

Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor said on Monday that he is proud with the team’s attitude to make a game but remained disappointed with the batting unit for failing to deliver in the first Test against Bangladesh. Zimbabwe were bowled out for 114 runs in less than two sessions to set up the hosts just 101 ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board XI failed to get a winning start in the Acharya Memorial Trophy as they lost to Mumbai by eight wickets in the rain-interrupted opening game at Jadavpur University’s campus ground in Kolkata on Monday. Bangladesh fielded six Test players in Anamul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Elias Sunny, Abul Hassan, Anamul Haque and Naeem ... Read more

Bangladesh will be kicking themselves in their foot for wasting a very good chance to put Zimbabwe under pressure after they suffered three casual run outs to be dismissed for 254 runs in the first innings of the first Test on Sunday. Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah and Mominul Haque each scored a fifty to give Bangladesh ... Read more

If body language is an indication of how a team approaching a game, Bangladesh must be appalled seeing what they have demonstrated on the first two days of the first Test against Zimbabwe. On the opening day fielders casually conceded several boundaries, misjudged few catches and dropped few others to allow Zimbabwe to reach to ... Read more

Though Bangladesh took a slim lead against Zimbabwe in the first innings of the first Test to leave the game on par in plain terms, one does not need to be an expert to see the advantage Zimbabwe gained after the first two days of play. The visitors shot Bangladesh out for 254 runs to ... Read more

Suspended off-spinner Sohag Gazi accused the Bangladesh Cricket Board of neglecting his rectification procedure, as it is yet to process his visa for a tour to Malaysia. Sohag is expected to travel to Malaysia for a two-week programme under former Bangladesh fielding coach Mohammad Salahuddin to remodel his action after the

Sakib al Hasan showed no sign of rustiness on his Test comeback to grab six wickets for 59 runs helping Bangladesh dismiss Zimbabwe for below-par 240 runs in the first innings of the first Test at Mirpur on Saturday. Sakib, who returned to Test cricket after serving out a ban for poor discipline, made good ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan had a five-wicket haul in the last Test match against Sri Lanka, but could not recall the feat on his return to Test cricket on Saturday against Zimbabwe. One cannot blame him, as in the last eight months he had so many ups and downs in his life, that it was very ... Read more

Visiting Zimbabwe vowed to make up for their lost ground with their bowling and fielding after they were dismissed for a modest total of 240 runs on the first day of the first Test against Bangladesh in Mirpur on Saturday. ‘We cannot change what we have on the board,’ said batsman Sikandar Raza, who laboured ... Read more

Over the last few years Zimbabwe has made major dents into Bangladesh’s reputation, winning the one-off Test series in 2011 and inflicting a huge defeat on the Tigers in the first Test of the next series in 2013. On both occasions, they also won the corresponding one-day international series’, impacting Bangladesh’s cricketing landscape as a ... Read more

Touring Zimbabwean cricket team remain focused on Bangladesh’s spinners when they take on the hosts in the first of the three Tests today, said skipper Brendan Taylor. Zimbabwe struggled to handle the part-time spinners of the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI during the just concluded three-day practice match, which only exposed

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have lot of similarities as a cricket nation both in terms of strength and records as the two teams often fight it out to overtake each other. A similar battle will begin today when they will be involved in a three-match Test series for the first time in their fledging cricket history. ... Read more

Former Bangladesh cricket team coach Dav Whatmore arrived in Dhaka to commentate in the ongoing series against Zimbabwe which starts today in Dhaka. Whatmore said he was excited at the prospect of watching his old team and looked forward to reunite with some of his friends at the Bangladesh Cricket Board, where

Zimbabwe cricket coach Stephen Mangongo said Bangladesh batsmen must complement their bowlers if they are to come out on top in the forthcoming Test series against his side. Mangongo agreed to the suggestion that the series is essentially a battle between Zimbabwe batsmen and Bangladeshi bowlers but added that the other sets of players

All-rounder Sakib al Hasan brushed aside the suggestion that Bangladesh are overconfident before facing Zimbabwe in the three-Test series, beginning at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Saturday. Though Bangladesh will begin the series as favourites, they will be hunted by the memories of their recent failure against Zimbabwe, who won two of their last three ... Read more

The tickets for the Bangladesh-Zimbabwe Test and one-day international series will be available in selected branches of the United Commercial Bank from Saturday, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said at a press conference on Thursday. The maximum price for a ticket for the Test series is Tk 1000 while the minimum price is Tk 20. For ... Read more

Unheralded Bangladesh Cricket Board XI bowlers showed that there is nothing to be panicked about the Zimbabwe cricket team as they rattled some of the top batsmen from the visiting side to earn a draw in the three-day warm-up match that ended at Fatullah on Wednesday. The two teams accepted the draw after Zimbabwe reached ... Read more

Bangladesh’s cricketers are preparing for the forthcoming three-Test series against Zimbabwe with a single-minded focus as plenty of things are at stake for them in it. The Tigers will leapfrog Zimbabwe in Test ranking should they win the series, which in the long run may help them to avoid the play off against ICC Intercontinental

Test squad members Shamsur Rahman and Shubhagata Hom scored half-centuries as Bangladesh Cricket Board XI gained an 11-run lead and reached 252-6 on the second day of the three-day match against Zimbabwe at Fatullah on Tuesday. Shamsur scored highest 69 runs while Shubhagata remained unbeaten on 53 runs as stumps were drawn after 80 overs ... Read more

The International Cricket Council and the Bangladesh Cricket Board lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland against the reduced ban of former national captain Mohammad Ashraful, said an official. BCB’s disciplinary panel chairman Md Abdur Rashid reduced Ashraful’s eight-year ban to five-year, including a two-year suspended ban, on September 29, ... Read more