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A 15-member Bangladesh ODI squad, led by Mushfiqur Rahim, will leave Dhaka tonight for West Indies to play two Test matches along with three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international match. Tigers will play their first two matches at the national stadium in Grenada on August 20 and 22 before moving to St Kitts for the ... Read more

A seven-member team of the Bangladesh Cricket Board arrived in Khulna on Monday to see if the city’s Sheikh Abu Nasser Stadium is ready to host a Test match against Zimbabwe in November. The BCB team included its director Sheikh Sohel, grounds and facilities manager Syed Abdul Baten, media committee manager Rabeed Imam, cricket operations manager ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team will go to West Indies hoping to win the series, said coach Chandika Hathurusinghe on Sunday, as the Tigers signed off their preparations. Bangladesh will leave home on August 13 for a month-long tour where they will play three-match one-day internationals, a Twenty20 international

Inter-Club Players’ Transfer Nasir pulls off the biggest surprise National team all-rounder Nasir Hossain pulled off the biggest surprise when he joined Abahani Limited against all speculations on the first day of the Inter-club players’ transfer for the Dhaka Premier Cricket League on Sunday. The two-day long first phase of the transfer began at the Bangabandhu ... Read more

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Ruwan Kalpage arrived in Dhaka on Sunday to join the Bangladesh cricket team as their new fielding coach putting an end to his long relationship with the Sri Lankan side. Kalpage was appointed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board recently as the Tigers’ fielding coach on a two-year contract after the post fell ... Read more

The first phase of the inter-club player transfers for the Dhaka Premier League will be held today with all but a few national players already confirming their next destination. In the first phase of the transfers only pool players will participate as they will leave home for West Indies on August 13. The Tigers will not ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team signed off their preparations for the forthcoming West Indies tour with a day-night warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Saturday. Opener Tamim Iqbal and Anamul Haque both slammed a fifty as Bangladesh Red, led by Mushfiqur Rahim, beat Bangladesh Green by seven wickets. Tamim, who showed some signs of

Sri Lanka has refused to accept the resignation letter of spin bowling coach Piyal Wijetung creating an stumbling block for him to take up the similar role in Bangladesh, said a report on Saturday. Piyal and Ruwan Kalpage are supposed to join Tigers before the West Indies tour as their spin bowling and fielding coach respectively ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan’s chance of playing in the Dhaka Premier League was put into uncertainty as the Bangladesh Cricket Board is unlikely to consider his appeal before the transfer process begins. The BCB was expected to review his six-month ban today in the meeting, but it was forced to postpone the meeting because of the unavailability ... Read more

A delegation of the Bangladesh Cricket Board will visit Khulna on August 11 to see the facilities available ahead of a planned Test against Zimbabwe in November. The original plan was that two matches of the three-Test series will be played in Chittagong and one in Dhaka, but the BCB has changed its heart and ... Read more

Preliminary hearing of BPL appeals held The Bangladesh Cricket Board and the International Cricket Council want the Dhaka Gladiators managing director Shihab Chowdhury to be banned for life as they presented their appeal to the disciplinary panel chairman retired justice Mohammad Abdur Rashid. The preliminary hearing of all four appeals made by the

The technical ability of Bangladesh batsmen to survive in the middle will be tested when they will play their first practice match ahead of West Indies tour at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. The 15-member squad along with some other national players will be divided into two groups to play the 60-over-a-side match which will be ... Read more

The preliminary appeal hearing of the Bangladesh Premier League match-fixing trial will start today, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s disciplinary panel chairman on Tuesday. Former national team captain, Mohammad Ashraful, and two other convicts along with the International Cricket Council and the BCB appealed against the

National captain Mushfiqur Rahim has opted out of Asian Games for his marriage ceremony, said the officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday. Pace bowler Mashrafee bin Murtaza is expected to lead the Bangladesh team in the Asian Games, scheduled in Incheon, Korea from September 19 to October 4,

Bangladesh heaved a sigh of relief as the blow that opener Tamim Iqbal received in the training on Monday appeared nothing but a routine bruise. Young pacer Taskin Ahmed struck Tamim in his ankle with a yorker off the first ball the left-hander was facing in the net at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

Bangladesh opener Anamul Haque said on Monday that Australian psychologist Phil Jauncey’s classes can have an immediate impact on the Tigers as they have touched all the details about how they should approach a game in the present situation. Jauncey, a former psychologist of Australia cricket team,

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal suffered an injury scare on Monday when he was struck by a yorker from young pacer Taskin Ahmed in his ankle off the first ball he faced in the net at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Tamim limped off the field and did not take any further part in the training. The gravity of ... Read more

Bangladeshi cricketers need to prevent the tricks played by the brains when chips are down in order to perform to their ability, said Australian performance psychologist Phil Jauncey on Sunday. Jauncey, who arrived late on Saturday on a short visit, spent a busy day at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, conducting a session attended by all the ... Read more

Bangladesh cricket team resumed their training on Saturday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium ahead of their West Indies tour after eight days of break for Eid-ul-Fitr. All eyes, however, were on one player who was not the member of the West Indies-bound squad and trained separately at the gymnasium. Suspended

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has appointed former Sri Lankan cricketer Ruwan Kalpage as the national team’s fielding coach on a two-year contract, said an official on Saturday. Kalpage, who worked as the head coach of the National Cricket Academy from 2008-10, has agreed to join the Tigers as soon as possible. ‘Kalpage was among