Cricket

Sri Lanka’s cricket selectors on Wednesday sacked Dinesh Chandimal as Twenty20 captain and replaced him with Lasith Malinga, while Angelo Mathews was retained as the Test and one-day skipper. Chandimal, 24, opted out of the last three matches, including the semi-final and final, of the recent World Twenty20 in Bangladesh due to poor batting form, leaving Malinga ... Read more

The pay dispute between Sri Lanka Cricket and its 13 contracted players ended on Wednesday when the latter agreed to accept 10 percent of the participation fees from ICC and Asian Cricket Council events. The players had demanded 20 per cent of the participation fees which Sri Lanka Cricket would not sanction. The players were due to sign ... Read more

Dhaka Division celebrated their title with a five-wicket win over Khulna while Rajshahi bagged a dramatic four-wicket win over Dhaka Metro as the country’s premium first-class cricket tournament, National Cricket League ended on Tuesday. Rangpur and Chittagong also posted wins in their respective final round matches as expected.

The Dhaka Premier League for the next season will begin on October 10 as the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the domestic calendar for 2014–15. The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis sat with standing committees at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium before making the official announcement at

The national cricket team is all set to make a short trip to Australia before the ICC World Cup to attend a 15-day camp in order to get them accustomed to the condition, said an official of BCB on Tuesday. If everything goes according to plan, the cricketers will leave the country after the Bangladesh Premier ... Read more

National batsmen Mominul Haque and Anamul Haque starred on the third day of the National Cricket League last round as Dhaka Division are on course for a victory over Khulna at Cox’s Bazar on Monday. Anamul carried the bat through the innings to stroke 119 not out, guiding Khulna to 232 in their second innings to ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team must improve their one-day ranking by December 2017 or face a qualifying round in the ICC World Cup 2019, said a Bangladesh Cricket Board official, removing all recent confusion regarding the issue. The confusion was created as the BCB president, Nazmul Hasan, said no such decision was taken in the recent International ... Read more

Bangladesh’s planned home series against Pakistan in next January could be deferred by a few months, said an official of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, adding that negotiations are ongoing to hold it after the World Cup in Australia-New Zealand. According to the Future Tour Programme of the International Cricket Council, Pakistan are scheduled to play two ... Read more

Bangladesh Football Federation has planned to hold a musical concert at their premier venue Bangabandhu National Stadium to raise some funds in less than a month after it had vehemently opposed a similar progarmme before the ICC World Twenty20. The BFF was very disappointed as the National Sports Council allowed the Bangladesh Cricket Board to hold a

Afghanistan’s new cricket academy coach, Peter Anderson from Australia, has started work in Kabul, officials said Monday, as the fast-developing team prepare for their debut at next year’s World Cup. Anderson coached Papua New Guinea for two years before joining Afghanistan, where cricket is a rare symbol of optimism in a country beset by war, corruption and ... Read more

Wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan struck a century as Dhaka Division scored 252 in their first innings against Khulna to take two batting bonus points, which confirmed their title in the 15th National Cricket League at Cox’s Bazar on Sunday. Dhaka, who were 22 points ahead of their nearest rivals Rajshahi after the sixth round, came into this game ... Read more

Combined effort and relentless hard work by the not-so-famed domestic cricketers helped Dhaka Division win the National Cricket League title, said coach Wahidul Gani on Sunday. Dhaka were confirmed of at least five bonus points against Khulna in their ongoing match at Cox’s Bazar with two days left, which enabled them to go bey ond the reach ... Read more

BCB unlikely to take action against Jurgensen The Bangladesh Cricket Board recruited Bangladesh-origin Canadian sports physiologist Ali Khan to counsel the members of the national cricket team in the wake of a disastrous performance in the recent ICC World Twenty20. Ali Khan, a life coach and neuro linguistic practitioner, has received life coaching certification from ‘Robbin-Madaness ... Read more

Dhaka Division moved a step closer to securing the National Cricket League title when they bowled Khulna out for 243 runs in their first innings on the opening day of their final round match in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday. Dhaka, who need just four points to go beyond the reach of their nearest rivals Rajshahi, ensured ... Read more

The Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the Bangladesh Cricket Board is unlikely to deliver its detailed verdict regarding Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing scandal before May, said a Tribunal member on Saturday. The Tribunal on February 26 acquitted six players and officials of match-fixing related offences during the second edition of BPL and found an owner

The Bangladesh Cricket League has been deferred for four days as the players wanted some more time,’ said officials on Saturday. Earlier, the BCL third round was scheduled to start from April 28 but now it will begin on May 2. ‘We deferred it for four days as the players wanted a break after playing the National ... Read more

Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal, widely regarded as the world’s best off-spinner, says that life is becoming increasingly tough for bowlers in limited-overs cricket. The 36-year-old believes the Twenty20 format and rule changes in 50-over matches have made a real difference. ‘Times have changed and

The Bangladesh Cricket Board cast a blind eye on the multiple arrests of suspected Indian bookie Atanu Dutta despite his presence in the landscape of country’s cricket for quite some time now. Bangladesh police on April 14 had arrested Atanu, suspected of being involved in betting during the ICC World Twenty20, for the third time in ... Read more

The final round matches of the National Cricket League begin today in the different venues of the country with table-toppers Dhaka Division looking to end Rajshahi Division’s long-standing domination in the competition. Dhaka are pitted against Khulna Division in Cox’s Bazar while Rajshahi, who are breathing down the neck of Dhaka, will be playing Dhaka Metro

England batsman Jonathan Trott has suffered more stress-related problems on his return to first class action and will take another break from the sport to undergo treatment, the country’s cricket board said on Friday. Trott, who will turn 33 next week, left England’s Ashes tour of Australia in November after the first Test in Brisbane due ... Read more