Cricket

Bangladesh A team are facing a defeat against Sagicor High Performance Centre in their first four-day match in West Indies, now being held at the Windward Park in Barbados. A four-wicket haul by Carlos Braithwaite saw the second string Bangladeshi side being dismissed for 140 runs in 41.4 overs in their first innings on the ... Read more

The preliminary national squad for the home series against India will start their preparations today under the newly-appointed assistant coach Sarwar Imran. The players are expected to undergo ‘beep’ tests in order to give the team management an idea about their fitness level. With the new coach for the Tigers yet to join

The Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the Bangladesh Cricket Board is unlikely to deliver its full verdict on the Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing scandal in May, the Tribunal chief told New Age on Saturday. The Tribunal on February 26 acquitted six players and officials of match-fixing related offences but did not announce any punishment for the three

Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday announced a 23-member preliminary squad for the three-match home series against India starting from next month. India will arrive on June 13 to play three one-day internationals against the Tigers scheduled to be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on June 15,

Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan became the toast of Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League scoring his maiden fifty in four years in their 30-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. Sakib’s 60 from 38 balls with five fours and three sixes came just after he hit ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday appointed former Sri Lankan Test cricketer and current assistant coach of New South Wales Chandika Hathurusinghe as the next head coach of the national team ending all speculations. The announcement came at an impromptu press conference arranged at BCB president Nazmul Hasan’s business office Beximco Limited

A fully equipped computer lab was set up at the National Cricket Academy building at Mirpur by the American International University-Bangladesh on Saturday as part of its ongoing partnership with the Bangladesh Cricket Board. As the BCB’s official education partner AIUB arranges English language classes, leadership courses, cultural awareness and

A Twenty20 cricket tournament, featuring 10 public and two private universities, will be held from May 19 to 23, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced on Saturday. The BCB will organise the tournament at BKSP with local electronics giant Walton being the title sponsor. The participating universities are

Local TV channel Gazi Satellite Limited has bagged the media and broadcasting rights of the Bangladesh Cricket Board for the next six years as the board decided to sell the rights for half the price of the present market value. Gazi offered highest $20.25 million in the open bidding at a city hotel on Friday though ... Read more

Chandika Hathurusingha on Friday vehemently denied getting any offer to become Bangladesh national team’s head coach although the Bangladesh Cricket Board claimed that they are close to inking a deal with him. ‘I don’t know where you are getting these things,’ Hathurusingha told a private TV channel. ‘I am very happy what I am doing here,’ said ... Read more

Shane Jurgensen has been appointed the new coach of Fiji, weeks after he resigned as Bangladesh’s head coach. He will be in charge of the country’s senior men’s, women’s and age-group teams for the next three years. His first assignment will be a tour of India in October, followed by the ICC East-Asia Pacific World Cricket ... Read more

Four companies submitted their technical proposals to the Bangladesh Cricket Board for the media and broadcasting rights for the next six years, said the officials of the BCB on Wednesday. BCB received the proposals from Virgo Media Limited, Gazi TV, Mediacom and Indian Sporty Solutionz and has accepted all the offers for assessment before inviting

The Bangladesh Cricket Boar on Wednesday confirmed the much-awaited home series against India in June, featuring three one-day internationals. ‘We are delighted to announce that India will be coming here for three ODIs in June,’ BCB’s media committee chairman Jalal Yunus told reporters in Dhaka.

Skipper Abdur Razzak grabbed 6-102 as Prime Bank South Zone beat BCB North Zone by 213 runs to claim their maiden Bangladesh Cricket League title at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday. Set a world record target of 573 runs, North Zone were firmly in the contest reaching 254-3 overnight before Razzak triggered the collapse in ... Read more

All-rounder Shuvagoto Hom is set to replace injured off-spinner Sohag Gazi in the Bangladesh A team for the forthcoming West Indies tour, an official of the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Tuesday. Gazi left the field during the third day of the Bangladesh Cricket League final against BCB North Zone after he suffered a back pain ... Read more

BCB North Zone made a brave fourth-innings chase led by Farhad Hossain and skipper Nasir Hossain as they ended the day on 254-3 after being set a target of 573 runs by Prime Bank South Zone in Bangladesh Cricket League’s final on Monday. Farhad remained unbeaten on 85 runs while Nasir was 67 not out when ... Read more

Veteran local coach Sarwar Imran is all set to take over the charge of Bangladesh national cricket team for the upcoming home series against India, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board officials on Monday. ‘We are considering the name of Sarwar Imran [for the India series],’ Jalal Yunus, BCB’s media committee chairman, told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla ... Read more

Imrul Kayes struck his maiden first-class double century and Mohammad Mithun also scored a century as Prime Bank South Zone took a firm grip on the Bangladesh Cricket League final against BCB North Zone on Sunday. Kayes flayed the North Zone bowling attack to score 204 and Mithun complemented with unbeaten 111 taking South Zone to ... Read more

A Dhaka court on Sunday acquitted Indian national Atanu Dutta as the investigation officer of the case said that he did not find any evidence of match-fixing against the accused. Metropolitan Magistrate Yunus Ali dismissed the case after the IO and Mirpur police sub-inspector Enamul Haque submitted the final report before the court

National batsman Nasir Hossain returned to some sort of form with a half-century, but his effort was not good enough as the Bangladesh Cricket Board North Zone conceded a 36-run deficit to Prime Bank South Zone in Bangladesh Cricket League’s final on Saturday. Nasir scored 70 from 113 balls, his first fifty in any form of ... Read more