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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

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