Cricket

Pakistan cricket leaders have ended Moin Khan’s two-month stay as head coach after the team’s disastrous exit from the World Twenty20 tournament. The Pakistan Cricket Board placed newspaper adverts Friday for coaches as it started a new hunt. And Khan could still be reappointed

Uncertainty looms large over the Dhaka Premier League this year as the Bangladesh Cricket Board is busy deciding dates for some other domestic competitions leaving little space for DPL start. The two rounds of Bangladesh Cricket League is all set start from April 28 after the National Cricket League, which is expected to conclude on April ... Read more

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected N. Srinivasan’s plea to reinstate him as India’s cricket chief, saying he had effectively turned a blind eye to allegations of wrongdoing in the Indian Premier League. The court last month ordered Srinivasan to stand aside as president of the Indian board, installing batting great Sunil Gavaskar to oversee the ... Read more

Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal could be in fresh trouble with the law after a party for his wedding breached local rules restricting marriage celebrations, police said Wednesday. Officers in the eastern city of Lahore said the 23-year-old international held a function on Tuesday that violated bylaws which say only one food

Dhaka Division made a giant leap towards regaining the National Cricket League title with an eight-wicket win over Barisal in the sixth round in Chittagong on Tuesday. With only one round to go, Dhaka took their tally to 112 points, 22 ahead of their nearest rivals Rajshahi, who crushed Chittagong inside three days in

Real Madrid top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo will miss today’s King’s Cup final against Barcelona after failing to recover from knee and thigh muscle problems, coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Tuesday. The Portugal captain and Ballon d’Or winner has missed Real’s last three matches since limping off near the end of the Champions League quarter-final, first leg ... Read more

Opener Tamim Iqbal’s bad time continues to linger as the Chittagong lad has faced yet another blow after he injured himself in the wrist in the match against Rajshahi Division in the National Cricket League on Monday to be ruled out for the next two weeks. Tamim, who remained far from his best in recent times ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s cricket operation chairman Akram Khan on Tuesday said that he was against making wholesale changes in the national set-up going against opinion of the board’s president Nazmul Hasan. Nazmul on several occasions hinted at making drastic changes in the national set-up, including the management group, after the Tigers had showed

Australia Mitchell Johnson may quit limited-overs cricket to prolong his Test career with an eye on the 2015 Ashes series in England, the fast bowler said on Tuesday. The 32-year-old has been Australia’s talisman in a spectacular recent run, bowling them to a whitewash of arch-rivals England and a series victory in

Farhad, Sanjamul share record stand Farhad Reza came back strongly from a demoralising showing in the ICC World Twenty20 against Hong Kong, hitting an unbeaten 182 for Rajshahi on the first day of the National Cricket League sixth round at BKSP on Saturday. Farhad, who was not picked again since the ill-fated Hong Kong game, shared ... Read more

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has dismissed reports that her marriage with Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik is in trouble. The news of differences and separation of Shoaib and Sania had been making rounds on the media for many months, but the Indian tennis player, who was on a private visit to Sialkot, the hometown of her ... Read more

Sri Lanka’s cricket board and two senior players were locked in a war of words Wednesday, a day after the World Cup-winning Twenty20 team returned home as national heroes. Former skippers Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara sparked the row by criticising cricket officials during a red-carpet reception at the airport, but the board hit back with ... Read more

The venues scheduled to host the second phase of the Bangladesh Premier League will be decided in an emergency executive committee meeting of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday. The BFF’s professional league committee deferred the decision to Saturday after failing to come to a decision in its meeting on Wednesday amid a heated exchange

Sri Lanka prepared to throw its biggest party since the end of the country’s ethnic conflict after beating India in the final of cricket’s World T20 tournament, officials said Monday. Cricket officials said arrangements were being made for a ticker-tape parade in central Colombo on Tuesday after an outpouring of jubilation in a

Sri Lanka’s stunning victory over India in the World Twenty20 final underlines how success in hit-and-run cricket depends not on form, but on how a team performs over those three hours in the field. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Indians went into Sunday’s final in Dhaka as the only unbeaten team in the tournament, having coasted through four ... Read more

Bangladesh women’s cricket team skipper Salma Khatun achieved double success on Tuesday when she touched the summit in the Twenty20 bowling ranking and earned a place in the women’s team of the just-concluded ICC World Twenty20 tournament. Salma moved up two places to number one position

Now that the dust has settled on Sri Lanka’s maiden World Twenty20 triumph in Bangladesh, leg-spinners across the world can raise a toast to a craft that shone against a barrage of power-hitting over the past three weeks. Modern powerful bats, field restrictions and the brevity of the format instilled fears in many minds that Twenty20 ... Read more

Kumar Sangakkara is not someone who often shows his emotion in a cricket match, regardless of its circumstance or significance. Throughout his long journey in international cricket, hardly anyone can remember a day when he allowed emotions to get the better of himself. But during the ICC World Twenty20 2014 final on Sunday, even a man ... Read more

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday admitted that they lost the final of the ICC World Twenty20 2014 against Sri Lanka due to their last four overs of batting but refrained from putting the blame entirely on the shoulders of Yuvraj Singh. Sri Lanka gave away only 19 runs in the last four

Australia furthered their dominance in women’s cricket as skipper Meg Lanning and Sarah Coyte along with an all-round performance from Ellyse Perry scripted their hat-trick of ICC World Twenty20 titles through a six-wicket win over England at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday. Australia were the pre-tournament favourites and they lived up to the