Cricket

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

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday named a star-studded A team for the West Indies tour which will begin later this month. Batsman Nasir Hossain will lead the team during the tour featuring two four-day matches, three one-dayers and two Twenty20 matches. Middle-order batsman Naeem Islam was named his deputy. The team, which also

Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam continued his wicket-taking spree as he wreaked havoc on Prime Bank South Zone by claiming eight wickets, putting BCB North Zone in a comfortable position on the opening day of the Bangladesh Cricket League final at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. Taijul ripped through the opponents’ batting line-up taking 8-86

Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam is enjoying every moment of his new found success as his superlative performance in the Bangladesh Cricket League has started to get him the recognition that he was looking for since 2010. Taijul helped Orient Sporting Club getting the promotion in the Dhaka Premier League in 2010 and immediately caught the attention ... Read more

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said they should move ahead with a plan for the World Cup 2015 without worrying too much about the departure of head coach Shane Jurgensen. Mushfiq and his fellow team-mates bade farewell to Jurgensen and fielding coach Corey Richards on Thursday at a simple ceremony at the BCB office

Bangladesh Cricket Board North Zone and Prime Bank South Zone will look for their maiden Bangladesh Cricket League title when they will face off in the final beginning at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. North Zone will go into the five-day final slightly as the favourites after knocking out holders Walton Central Zone in the previous ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board was served with a legal notice on Wednesday by Channel-9 after the channel was barred from buying the tender documents for the media and broadcasting rights for financial disputes. Enayatur Rahman Bappy, the owner of the channel, said they had no choice but to take the legal course as the BCB denied ... Read more

Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam bagged 11 wickets in the match as BCB North Zone moved into the final of the Bangladesh Cricket League with an easy 51-run win over Walton Central Zone at the BKSP on Tuesday. North Zone will meet Prime Bank South Zone in the final, a five-day match, which will be held at ... Read more