Cricket

A Bangladeshi cricket team was invited to take part in a tournament organised by the cricket association of Bengal for celebrating the 150th year’s anniversary of Eden Gardens, said Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan on Monday. Former Indian national cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly sent the invitation letter on behalf of the CAB to ... Read more

Bangladesh cricket team started their preparation for the Asian Games with nearly a three-hour long practice session at the Songdo LNG Baseball Stadium on Sunday. Arriving the day before, Tigers did not waste the chance of getting themselves acclimatised with the condition prior to their opener on October 1 in the

Regis Chakabva struck a century to set up a 17-run win for Zimbabwe A team as the visitors drew the first blood in the three-match one-day series against the Bangladesh A team at Fatullah on Sunday. Opting to bat first, Zimbabwe A, who lost the preceding unofficial Test series 2-0, assembled 253-6 before Bangladesh A were ... Read more

Bangladesh women’s cricket team lost an easy chance of grabbing country’s first gold medal in the 17th Asian Games when they lost to Pakistan by four runs in the final in Incheon on Friday. Some mindless batting in the last two overs saw the Bangladesh team collapsed from a firm position to be restricted to 38-9 ... Read more

Bangladesh women cricketers were heart-broken when they came so close to being part of history before losing to Pakistan by four runs in the Asian Games final in Incheon, South Korea on Friday. Pakistan defeated Bangladesh in the earlier edition of the Asian Games when cricket discipline was introduced for the first time and yet they ... Read more

Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in semis, face Pakistan in the final today Bangladesh women’s cricket team continued their brilliant performance in the Asian Games as they moved into the final after thumping Sri Lanka by 25 runs in Incheon, South Korea, on Thursday. The win at the Yeonhui Cricket ground set up a final against Pakistan, ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan dropped a strong hint on Thursday that Mashrafee bin Murtaza will be appointed as the country’s one-day international captain for the Zimbabwe series next week. Mashrafee is widely tipped to take over the ODI side from Mushfiqur Rahim after the BCB announced the plan for split-captaincy last month in the ... Read more

Bangladesh cricket team will be looking to put aside their recent poor performances and gain some confidence for the future series when they play in the Asian Games, skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said on Thursday. Bangladesh, the reigning gold medallists, will leave home today for the meet now being held in Incheon, South Korea. Mashrafee will lead ... Read more

Saqlain Sajib grabbed five wickets in the second innings as Bangladesh A team completed an emphatic 118-run win over Zimbabwe A in the second four-day match to take the unofficial two-Test series 2-0 at Fatullah on Thursday. Chasing a target of 299 runs on the fourth and final day, the visitors were all out for 180 ... Read more

Young leg-spinner Zubair Hossain and paceman Shahadat Hossain shared five wickets between them to put Bangladesh A team in control over Zimbabwe A team in their second four-day match at Fatullah on Tuesday. The visitors reached 91-6 at close on the second day, still trailing Bangladesh A team by 167 runs after the home side posted ... Read more

Rain is likely to play a big part in the second four-day match between Bangladesh A and Zimbabwe A that got underway at the Fatullah Stadium on Monday. Only 21 overs of play were possible on the opening day, with Bangladesh A reaching 88-0 before bad light forced the umpires to call off the play ... Read more

The Dhaka Premier League, scheduled to begin on October, is set to be delayed by a few more days after national coach Chandika Hathurusinghe requested to arrange a three-day warm-up match ahead of the Test series against Zimbabwe. The league, which was originally scheduled to start from October 10, was earlier deferred by the Cricket Committee ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team will see end of an era today as long-serving physiotherapist Vibhav Singh departs after more than three years at the helm. The South African physio tendered his resignation before the West Indies tour to be with his newly wedded wife after a successful stint when helped several players

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim didn’t have any problems regarding the issue of splitting the captaincy in all formats of the game in the coming days if that serves the best interest of the national cricket team. Mushfiq along with his team-mates returned on Saturday after their disastrous tour of West Indies where they lost both the ... Read more

Off-spinner Sohag Gazi returned home on Saturday after completing his bio-mechanical test at the Cardiff University in Wales and was confident of a positive result. The spinner was reported for suspect bowling action by the International Cricket Council during their second one-day international match against West Indies

The second four-day match between Bangladesh ‘A’ and their Zimbabwean counterparts will begin on September 22 at the Fatullah stadium. The match was originally scheduled to start from today but due to unavoidable circumstances, the match was deferred by a day. The dates for the first two one-day internationals have also been changed. The matches will ... Read more

Visiting Zimbabwe A team captain Vusi Sibanda thinks that the wicket of the Cox’s Bazar Stadium during their first four-day match against the hosts was under-prepared and inappropriate for hosting first-class cricket. Bangladesh A team registered a six-wicket win over their Zimbabwe counterparts in a low-scoring game to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series ... Read more

The Bangladesh national cricket team will return home today after finishing their miserable tour of West Indies. The Tigers will land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by an Emirates flight, scheduled to reach at 8:40am. West Indies defeated Bangladesh by 3-0 margin in the one-day international series and followed that with two convincing victories in ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team will be eager to erase their bitter memories of the last twelve months by winning their second successive gold medal at the 17th Asian Games when the Twenty20 event kicks off in Incheon on October 1. The Tigers will directly play in the knock-out stage along with Sri Lanka for being a ... Read more

Talent is useless if there is no discipline in batting Bangladesh’s miserable West Indies tour ended with yet another mere capitulation as they suffered a huge 296-run defeat against the hosts in the second Test in St Lucia on Tuesday. The visitors lost eight wickets for just 34 runs in the final session of the ... Read more