Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium in Cox’s Bazar received a severe jolt in getting ICC’s approval as a Test venue when the false ceiling of the its dressing room collapsed during the opening day of the first four-day match between Bangladesh A team and Zimbabwe A on Monday. This is the first stadium of the ... Read more
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U-23s kick off their campaign against Afghanistan today
Bangladesh Under-23 national football team will kick off their Asian Games campaign against their Afghan opponents at the Incheon Munhak Stadium in South Korea today. This will also be the first time that Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan since the final of the 2010 Dhaka South Asian Games, in which they thrashed the Afghans 4-0 ... Read more
Zahid leaves for Incheon
Zahid Hossain left Dhaka for South Korea on Sunday night to join the Under-23 national football team as areplacement for injured defender Atiqur Rahman Meshu, said a Bangladesh Football Federation official. The BFF arranged the air ticket for the national team and Mohammedan Sporting Club right-winger immediately after receiving his accreditation card, sent by the officials ... Read more
Win for Abahani in Under-18 football
Abahani Limited came from behind to beat Uttar Baridhara 2-1 in the Airtel Under-18 Football Tournament at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. In the second match of the day, defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited were held to a goalless by Brothers Union. Uttar Baridhara took the lead
Tigers back after solid WI start
Paceman Shafiul Islam and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam removed both the openers to bring Bangladesh back into the contest after West Indies made a solid start in the second Test at St Lucia. Shafiul had first Test double centurion Kraigg Brathwaite dismissed for 63 runs before Taijul trapped debutant Leon Johnson leg-before for 66 as West ... Read more
1st four-day match starts today
Cox’s Bazar stadium is set to host its maiden first-class cricket match when Bangladesh A team take on their Zimbabwean counterparts in the first of their two four-day matches, beginning from today. The stadium became the eighth cricket venue of the country and was inaugurated during the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 with some of the matches ... Read more
Cricket is in our gene: Richardson
Richie Richardson is considered as the last member of the West Indies’ golden generation. On the eve of the country’s 500th Test match, Richardson, the manager of the current West Indies side, described the journey to a group of Bangladeshi journalists in St Lucia. Here are the excerpts: Q: Can you describe the journey towards ... Read more
Bangladesh to play two FIFA friendlies against Sri Lanka
Bangladesh national football team will play two FIFA friendly matches against their Sri Lankan counterparts in Rajshahi and Jessore in the last week of October, Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin said on Saturday. After arranging a FIFA second-tier international friendly match between Bangladesh Under-23 team and Nepal Under-23 team in Sylhet earlier this month,
Ctg Abahani hold Russell in U-18 football opener
Chittagong Abahani and Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra played out a 2-2 draw in the opening match of the Airtel Under-18 Football Tournament at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. In the day’s second match, Team BJMC eased to a 2-0 win over Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra at the same venue. Chittagong Abahani took the lead twice through ... Read more
Maruf appeals to lift ban
Former Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra coach Maruful Haque made an appeal to the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday to lift his one-year ban from football slapped by the disciplinary committee on August 24. Maruf, the treble winning coach of Sheikh Russell KC, was suspended for one year and fined Tk 30,000 when he demanded that the ... Read more
Tigers relish chance in historic WI Test
Bangladesh are planning to do something extra-ordinary as they seek to end the ongoing West Indies tour with a positive result in the second Test, beginning at St Lucia from today. The Tigers, still winless in the series, are inspired by the wicket at the Beausejour stadium, which produced draws in all three Tests held ... Read more
Tigers eye only a draw
In his Cape Town home umpire Marais Erasmus has a large framed picture. In the picture, Erasmus is flanked by Virender Sehwag and Sakib al Hasan, the two captains of his first ever Test match. Speaking to a group of Bangladeshi journalists on Thursday, Erasmus said he will carry the memory of 2010 Test in ... Read more
Tigers back Al-Amin to come clear
The Players and coaching staff of the Bangladesh cricket team backed paceman Al-Amin Hossain to return clear after his bowling action was questioned by the match officials in the first Test against West Indies in St Vincent. The two umpires of the match found all deliveries of Al-Amin in a few particular overs illegal and ... Read more
Tigers out to spoil WI’s 500th Test party
Since the inaugural Test, Bangladesh’s involvement in a historic Test match was the inauguration of electronics scoreboard at Basin Reserve, the traditional hub of New Zealand cricket. In January 2008, prior to the second Test against Bangladesh, New Zealand inaugurated the scoreboard 140 years after the ground hosted its first ever cricket match.
A festival without prince
Cricket was once the most popular sport in the Caribbean, but things are changing rapidly with athletics and basketball taking its place in most of the islands of the region. St Lucia is one of the few islands where the sporting icon is still a cricketer and he is none other than Darren Sammy, the ... Read more
Taskin’s hopes of playing in Asiad brightens
Paceman Taskin Ahmed’s chances of playing in the Asian Games Twenty20 cricket for Bangladesh brightened when an MRI report suggested that it was nothing serious with his right knee, Brett Harrot, manager of BCB’s physiotherapy department, told New Age on Thursday. Taskin, who has been suffering from a tendon injury in his
BCB vice-presidents election takes a new twist
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s election for the vice-president posts took a new twist when Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club’s representative Nazib Ahmed entered the race by submitting his nomination paper on Thursday. The interested candidates were allowed to buy and submit their nomination papers at the SBNS until September 11 after the BCB initiated the move to ... Read more
BPL match-fixing hearing ends
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s disciplinary panel completed its final hearing of the appeals against the BCB anti-corruption tribunal’s verdicts in the Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing trial on Thursday. The disciplinary panel had earlier completed the preliminary hearing on August 6 and began the final hearing from last Monday. Former national team captain Mohammad Ashraful
MSC not to loan players to Russell for AFC President’s Cup
Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra received further blow after Mithun Chowdhury joined Asiad squad, when Mohammedan Sporting Club refused to release their five players to play for them in the AFC President’s Cup final round starting in Sri Lanka from September 20. Mohammedan Sporting Club sent a letter to the
Tigers inspired by second innings
Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim was taking inspiration from the team’s second innings batting in the first Test as they moved to St Lucia on Wednesday for the second and final Test against West Indies. Bangladesh were thrashed by 10 wickets in the first Test, but they at least showed some courage in the second innings when ... Read more