Cricket

The curtain on the Shane Jurgensen drama is expected to fall today with the Bangladesh Cricket Board set to decide the fate of national cricket team’s Australian head coach in its board of directors meeting in the afternoon. The officials said BCB president Nazmul Hasan and a few other directors, closely involved in policy making decision, ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board will make a decision on national team’s head coach Shane Jurgensen only after knowing why he had resigned, president Nazmul Hasan said on Saturday. ‘Till now we have not thought of removing him,’ Nazmul told reporters at the Apollo Hospital, where he went to visit Mushfiqur Rahim. ‘We must think that

Middle-order batsman Farhad Hossain cracked a century to help BCB North Zone complete the day one comfortably at 287-4 against Walton Central Zone in the Bangladesh Cricket League which resumed after a break at BKSP on Saturday. In the other match, Abdur Razzak and Sohag Gazi shared seven wickets between them as Prime Bank South Zone

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Friday that the resignation of head coach Shane Jurgensen did not come as a surprise and they are not willing to make an approach to keep him for long. ‘When a tournament ends and the performance of the team is not up to the mark, the coach is ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team captain Mushfiqur Rahim was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on Thursday as he had been suffering from fever for the last four days and after some tests he was diagnosed with some complications in his liver, Bangladesh Cricket Board’s physician said on Friday. Mushfiq’s unexpected illness came as a major blow for BCB ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is being kept on their toes as the wait for Shane Jurgensen lingers on after the Australian head coach of the national team, who resigned recently, changed his arrival flight schedule. BCB’s cricket operations chairman Akram Khan said on Tuesday that Jurgensen was expected on Wednesday rescheduling his original arrival date on

Stars Sports and Ten Sports are among the bidders for Bangladesh’s media rights for the next six years, said the officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Wednesday. Gazi Television and a private consortium Mediacom also bought the tender documents, providing BCB a major boost in their quest for a permanent broadcaster

National cricket captain Mushfiqur Rahim on Tuesday signed a one-year deal with cookies and biscuit manufacturer Goldmark Foods Ltd as its Brand Ambassador. A grand signing ceremony was held on the occasion at the Westin Hotel where managing director of the company, Mohammed Bashir was present

BCB did not accept resignation, says decision spurred by emotion The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday suffered a serious blow as national team’s Australian head coach Shane Jurgensen resigned from his post apparently being upset by certain media speculation about his future. The BCB received an e-mail minutes before it was preparing to hold an emergency ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board at an emergency meeting on Monday formed a committee to finalise the details of media rights, said the officials. BCB’s chairman of the marketing and commercial committee Kazi Enam Ahmed will head the committee which also included directors Afzalur Rahman Sinha,

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is unlikely to take any action against head coach Shane Jurgensen and has rather shifted its focus on Australian batting and fielding coach Corey Richard, the officials said ahead of a crunch Board of Directors meeting today. The emergency meeting was convened to discuss the media rights for which the BCB is

The Bangladesh Cricket Board lifted the provisional ban on Dhaka Gladiators’ left-arm spinner Mosharraf Hossain and pace bowler Mahbubul Alam as the duo came out clean after being charged in the Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing scandal. BCB’s acting chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury said there is no bar

England’s cricketers may have suffered the embarrassment of a World Twenty20 defeat by the Netherlands and a 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia but even they were never bowled out for three as happened to one club side on Saturday. Wirral, from north-west England, were dismissed for just three away to Haslington in a Cheshire League ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board intends to send a full-strength squad at the Asian Games 2014 in a bid to retain the gold medal Bangladesh won in China four years ago. The selectors named a 27-member preliminary squad for the Games, which will be held in Incheon, South Korea, in September-October this year.

Bangladeshi cricketers have started to realise and feel the importance of psychological skill development as they lined up for individual sessions with their Canadian sports psychologist of Bangladeshi origin, Ali Azhar Khan, at the BCB academy building at Mirpur on Friday. The Bangladesh Cricket Board has recruited Khan for a three-day of counselling for the Tigers

Pakistan cricket chiefs Friday appointed a six-member selection committee—the biggest in its history – to choose the team to start a hectic season leading up to next year’s World Cup. Former captain Moin Khan will head the committee, two members larger than usual, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced. ‘Former Test players Saleem Yousuf, Shoaib Mohammad,

Sri Lanka Cricket on Friday named former captain Marvan Atapattu as interim head coach, making him the island nation’s seventh coach in the last four years. Atapattu, 43, was appointed for the tour of England and Scotland starting next month and the subsequent home series against South Africa in July, the board

Bangladeshi-origin Canadian sports psychologist Ali Azhar Khan attempted to create a positive frame of mind among the players in his first session with the members of national cricket team in Dhaka on Thursday. The Bangladesh Cricket Board recruited Khan for three days of counselling for Tigers in the wake of a disastrous performance in the recent ICC ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has issued a tender to sell worldwide media rights for six years until 2020. Two India tours to Bangladesh and a slightly enlarged international schedule during this period are what the BCB are hoping would attract bidders, who have to submit their proposals by May 8. Interested parties can start buying tenders from ... Read more

A total of 35 centuries scored and 29 times the bowlers took five or more wickets in an innings are giving an impression that the just-concluded 15th National Cricket League was full of action, but the ground reality is far from what the mere statistics suggest. The players and selectors are of the opinion that the ... Read more