Spinners Sohag Gazi and Abdur Razzak enabled Prime Bank South Zone to take a slim 16-run first innings lead over Islami Bank East Zone as they shared 10 wickets between them on the second day of their second Bangladesh Cricket League match at Mirpur on Thursday. In reply to South Zone’s 248 all out on ... Read more
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Sixth straight defeat for BU
Traditional giants Brothers Union tumbled down to the bottom of the Bangladesh Premier League table, increasing their relegation tension after they were handed a 2-0 defeat by Team BJMC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. Young BJMC striker Toklis Ahmed doubled the lead after his prolific Guinean teammate
BPL matches in Chittagong uncertain
The Bangladesh Premier League matches in Chittagong have become uncertain this year due to the insufficient floodlight at the proposed venue MA Aziz Stadium, officials said on Thursday. The Bangladesh Cricket Board had planned to hold 10 BPL matches at the stadium as the city’s main cricket venue, the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, is currently ... Read more
Robiul, Anamul lift South
A late blitz by Robiul Islam helped Prime Bank South Zone reach a respectable 248 runs in the first innings on the first day of their second Bangladesh Cricket League match against Islami Bank East Zone at Mirpur on Wednesday. Half-centuries from Junaed Siddique and Farhad Hossain took Bangladesh Cricket Board
Pakistan officially replies to BCB
Pakistan Cricket Board officially responded to Bangladesh’s letter over the postponement of a planned tour in January, said the officials on Wednesday. The BCB informed its Pakistani counterpart of its decision though a letter last week and were waiting for a reply in the official channel
BFF takes guard as fixing threat looms
The seventh round of the Bangladesh Premier League begins today with title aspirants Team BJMC taking on a struggling Brothers Union at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the first match of the round. The BFF has decided to take extra measures ahead of this game as there is a match-fixing rumour swirling around as Brothers ... Read more
No Pakistanis, no problem
BPL franchisees sing to the same tune Amid looming threats of Pakistani players pulling out from the Bangladesh Premier League, the franchisees of the Twenty20 competition said life without their service will not be as difficult as it may seem. A total of 57 Pakistani cricketers were put up in BPL’s players’ auction for the ... Read more
Tamim shines in New Year
Bangladeshi opening batsman Tamim Iqbal started off the New Year with a brilliant 68 in the HRV Twenty20 Cup though his team Wellington Firebirds lost the match to Northern Districts by nine wickets at Bay Oval on Tuesday. The dashing left hander, who was out on a duck in his previous match, struck four fours and equal ... Read more
Pakistan calls Bangladesh decision ‘inappropriate’
Pakistan on Tuesday criticised Bangladesh’s decision to abandon a planned cricket tour over security fears and threatened to bar its own players from playing in a Bangladeshi league. The two nations were scheduled to play a Twenty20 and a one-day international in Lahore this month, albeit pending security clearance
Prime Bank rope in BPL deal
The Bangladesh Premier League got their new title sponsor in Prime Bank Limited after the latter completed signing the agreement for Tk six crore with tournament’s event management company Game On Sports Management Limited at Mirpur on Tuesday. Earlier in the first edition of BPL Destiny-Boishakhi was the title
BCB president stands by amended constitution
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon yesterday cleared the air about his ad-hoc committee’s position regarding the recent amendments to the board’s constitution. While speaking at an ‘Exchange of View” programme at the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel the BCB boss said that his ad-hoc committee didn’t make any recommendation for the
Tour postponed
Concerns over Pakistanis’ BPL participation Bangladesh’s two-day tour of Pakistan, which was scheduled to take place on January 12 and 13, has been postponed on security grounds, informed Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon in a press conference at a city hotel yesterday. Papon stated that the board would continue observing the security ... Read more
Bangladesh’s proposed tour to Pakistan cancelled
BCB chief Nazmul Hassan has said Bangladesh will only tour Pakistan if the security situation in the country improves. He remained noncommittal, not saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the proposed tour, but it was made clear in various ways that the January visit has, for now, been ruled out. “The ICC minutes has it that ... Read more
Team Tigers take a bow
The image of Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim in tears after the Asia Cup final in March is one that springs readily to mind when looking at the Bangladesh cricket team’s performance in the year just going by. The chance to achieve their biggest success was shattered following a two-run defeat to Pakistan at ... Read more
Controversially 2012
In 2012 Bangladesh have made some strides in the sports sphere — the playing of FIFA international friendlies and the general elevation of the cricket team’s standard in ODI cricket come to mind. But if there is one thing that can be expected from organised sports in Bangladesh, it is that there will be controversies, ... Read more
Robiul lights up day of draws
The first-round match of the Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) between Walton Central Zone and Prime Bank South Zone at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium eventually turned out to be a draw at the end of the fourth day yesterday. However, for a moment it seemed as though Robiul Islam’s terrific opening spell, which included four wickets ... Read more
‘Should be fit for BPL’
Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has said that he expects to be fit in time for the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20, which begins on January 18. Shakib was earlier diagnosed with a shin injury after Bangladesh’s second Test match against the West Indies in November and had been advised to ‘stay away from ... Read more
The friendly path to success
Domestic football competitions have been in a steady position over last five years without much improvement seen in the general standard of football. The poor standard of the country’s footballers was exposed time and again when they competed at the international level in tournaments such as the biennial SAFF Championship, FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, Olympic
United they achieved
When Niaz Murshed became the country’s first Grandmaster (the first one from South Asian as well) back in 1987, a generation of youth were inspired to take up the game. They thought that chess would give them an identity and fame like no other sport could. But soon enough the harsh realities of the game ... Read more
London’s Bolt into immortality
In a cool summer evening on the 12th of August in London, Lord Sebastian Coe stood up to the podium facing 80,000 people and a TV audience of nearly a billion to whisper a simple phrase into the microphone. “When our time came, we did it right,” said Coe and the words of the man ... Read more