The Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday finalised the schedule of the upcoming World Cup 2018 qualifying round home matches against Bangladesh’s four Group B opponents. All of the games will be played at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. Bangladesh will start their qualification campaign against Kyrgyzstan on June 11 before facing Tajikistan
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Tigers break Pakistan jinx, finally
Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi pair to score a century each in the same innings as the Tigers ended their 16 years of wait for their second win over Pakistan in the first one-day international in Dhaka on Friday. Bangladesh lost 40 matches to Pakistan in all formats since they famously ... Read more
Win means a lot, says Sakib
Bangladesh heaved a sigh of relief as they finally broke the Pakistan jinx with a 79-run win in their first of the three-match one-day international series in Dhaka on Friday. The Tigers suffered heart-breaks many times over the last 16 years since triumphed over Pakistan in 1999 and despite the odds heavily favouring them were ... Read more
Tamim answers critics in style
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal stroked a magnificent century against Pakistan in the opening game of the three-match ODI series to give a fitting reply to his critics at Mirpur on Friday. The full-packed stadium witnessed the left-hander making 132 off 135 balls with the help of 15 fours and three sixes for his fifth ODI ... Read more
Mushfiq rewarded for consistency
Mushfiqur Rahim got his reward for his consistent batting as he scored a brilliant century in the first one-day international of three-match series against Pakistan in Dhaka on Friday. Widely acclaimed as technically most sound Bangladeshi batsman these days, Mushfiq was instrumental to Bangladesh’s success in the recent World Cup. He struck three fifties
Russell edge past Mohammedan
Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra continued their winning run in the Bangladesh Premier League with a narrow 1-0 win over fallen giants Mohammedan Sporting Club at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday. In the other match of the day at the same venue, Brothers Union tasted their first win of the league by defeating Farashganj Sporting ... Read more
Australia thrash New Zealand to clinch 5th Cricket World Cup title
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Final Australia thrash New Zealand to clinch 5th Cricket World Cup title Australia claimed their fifth world best title today beating co-hosts New Zealand before a record attendance at home-ground Melbourne in the World Cup 2015. Aussies proved their worth cutting the final short in a low-scoring match bowling out ... Read more
Australia claim their fifth World Cup title
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Final Australia claim their fifth World Cup title Australia claimed their fifth world best title today beating co-hosts New Zealand before a record attendance at home-ground Melbourne in the World Cup 2015. Aussies proved their worth cutting the final short in a low-scoring match bowling out the Kiwis at 183 ... Read more
New Zealand beat South Africa by 4 wickets, in finals for 1st time
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 New Zealand beat South Africa by 4 wickets, in finals for 1st time South Africa has tilted the game a little in their favour chipping away wickets after the fiery blaze of Brendon McCullum to start New Zealand’s chase of 298 at Eden Park. The comeback has been splendid and ... Read more
New Zealand beat West Indies by 143 runs
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 New Zealand beat West Indies by 143 runs Hosts and heavyweight contender New Zealand today beat West Indies in a robust fashion at Wellington to move to the semifinal of the ICC cricket World Cup 2015. Smack with a brutal double century from Martin Guptill, New Zealand heaped a massive ... Read more
Australia beat Pakistan by 6 wickets
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015Australia beat Pakistan by 6 wicketsCatches win matches – Pakistan learned it the hard way today having tasted a bitter defeat against Australia in the third quarterfinal of the ICC cricket World Cup at Adelaide.Tough luck for Wahab Riaz and Pakistan along with him, had Shane Watson and Glenn Maxwell been ... Read more
India beat Bangladesh by 109 runs
ICC Cricket world Cup 2015 India beat Bangladesh by 109 runs Riding on Rohit Sharma’s century, India beat Bangladesh by a big margin of 109 runs at Melbourne today to advance into the semifinal of the ICC cricket World Cup 2015. For Bangladesh it was the first World Cup knockout match in history where they ... Read more
South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets In a game of complete dominance at Sydney today, South Africa went through to semifinal of the World Cup 2015 thrashing Sri Lanka by nine wickets in a low scoring match. For Sri Lanka, apparently their worst nightmare came to life with ... Read more
India beat Zimbabwe by 6 wickets
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 India beat Zimbabwe by 6 wickets Defending champion India ran away with a victory over Zimbabwe at Auckland in the World Cup today riding on an anchoring century of Suresh Raina and a record partnership. For Brendan Taylor, his magnificent century in the last match for Zimbabwe came to no ... Read more
New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 3 wickets
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 3 wickets With the dismissal of New Zealand’s Ross Taylor, the match seemed to have evened up and poised on the line waiting to be dragged till the last minute for an enthralling finish. It was the 131-run stand between centurion Martin Guptill and Ross ... Read more
South Africa beat UAE by 146 runs
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 South Africa beat UAE by 146 runs Heavyweight contender for world best, South Africa today defeated associate member UAE by an overwhelming 146 runs in the World Cup 2015 match at Wellington today. For UAE, the fight was never really on, but they can console themselves on the satisfaction of ... Read more
SL haul big 148-run victory
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 SL haul big 148-run victory Sri Lanka defeated Scotland by 148 runs in their last group and the 35th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart today. Kumar Sangakkara, who scored his consecutive fourth century today, was awarded Player of the Match award. ... Read more
India slam win over Ireland
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 India slam win over Ireland Defending champion and Pool A ace India slammed a big eight-wicket win over Ireland in the World Cup match at Adelaide today riding on the century of Shikhar Dhawan. Winning the toss and choosing to bat first, Ireland commenced their innings composed with an 87-run ... Read more
Bangladesh’s first WC quarterfinal in history
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Bangladesh’s first WC quarterfinal in history Mashrafe Mortaza’s second wicket fanned strong belief among Bangladesh fans of a dejavu of 2011 win over England at World Cup 2015 at Adelaide today. Bringing himself back in the batting powerplay overs, Mashrafe dismissed Joe Root. Starting off on the backfoot in defence ... Read more
Australia ward off Sri Lanka scare
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Australia ward off Sri Lanka scare Warding off a brave Sri Lankan fight, Australia emerged on top after a fiery game of high scoring cricket at Sydney in the ICC cricket World Cup 2015 today. Sri Lankan fans would feel they were in for a chance to chase down mammoth ... Read more