Bangladesh women’s team captain Salma Khatun said yesterday after her team’s two-wicket win over South Africa that sometimes a hard-fought victory is sweeter than an easy one. “We are happy that in the end we won the match. It was not at all easy but sometimes a hard-fought win is much sweeter than an easy ... Read more
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BCB XI win warm-up
BCB XI got off to a good start with a 59-run victory in the lone T20 practice match against Tobago on Wednesday night. The Tigers, who are playing under the banner of BCB XI, were scheduled to play their first match in the Trinidad Quadrangular T20 competition against Barbados last night, then play against Afghanistan today ... Read more
BCB eases TV rights clause
The Bangladesh Cricket Board in an emergency meeting on Tuesday relaxed the clause for its television broadcast and marketing rights to attract new bidders, said BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal after the meeting. The BCB, earlier, had put a clause that a company with minimum five years experience in
NCL awaits first ever day-night affair
The Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Tuesday that it will introduce day-night first-class match in the forthcoming National Cricket League in line with the guideline of the International Cricket Council. ‘The opening game and the final match of National Cricket League will be a day-night affair and a pink ball will be used as per ... Read more
Ex-player Shariful banned on BPL spot-fixing charge
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday said it has banned ex-national cricketer Shariful Haque for an indefinite period after an allegation made against him for spot-fixing has been substantiated. The decision against Shariful was taken following an allegation made by former Test captain Mashrafee bin Murtaza who had alleged that he was approached by the ... Read more
SA women touch down
The South Africa women’s cricket team arrived in Dhaka yesterday to play three one-day internationals and as many T20 internationals against their Bangladesh counterparts. All the matches will take place at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur where cricket returns for the first time since the planting of the new
BCB reviewing clauses
Tender for Worldwide Media Rights BCB reviewing clauses The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is in the process of rethinking some tough clauses following a poor response to their international tender for worldwide media rights. The board has already extended the timeline for obtaining tender documents and submission of tenders by another seven days in order ... Read more
Kamal faces strong opposition over cricketers’ councillorship
With the election of the Bangladesh Cricket Board scheduled for November, the councillors of the board started to pull up their socks by raising their voice against the president AHM Mustafa Kamal at a meeting at the Nationals Sports Council recently. Kamal recently wrote a letter to the NSC for retaining the councillorships of 15 ... Read more
Bangladesh blast into Rd 2
Bangladesh qualified for the second round of the Hockey World League by emerging unbeaten champions in Round 1 which concluded in Singapore yesterday. The Red and Green defeated Thailand 6-1 in their last match to maintain their 100 percent record in the tournament. Bangladesh had earlier beaten Hong Kong by the same margin in their ... Read more
Salma happy with results
Bangladesh women’s cricket team captain Salma Khatun said yesterday that the Ireland trip greatly aided towards the improvement of their performance. The women’s team returned home on Friday after the Ireland tour where they won only one T20 game against the hosts but Salma was little bothered with the result of the tri-nation series, instead
Few buyers for BCB TV rights bid
The Bangladesh Cricket Board failed to attract too many companies to buy its television broadcast and marketing rights and extended time for purchasing the tender schedule for another seven days in the hope of roping in few more interested clients. The last date of buying the schedule for the TV rights ended on August 31 ... Read more
Tigers leave with high hopes
The Bangladesh national cricket team, led by Mushfiqur Rahim, left Dhaka for Trinidad on Friday to complete the last leg of their preparations for next month’s ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. The national team under the banner of BCBXI will play in the Trinidad & Tobago Quadrangular Twenty20 competition from September 6-8 that has ... Read more
‘Team is in a good shape’
All members of the Bangladesh team will leave together today for Trinidad after captain Mushfiqur Rahim along with Tamim Iqbal and Nasir Hossain returned home yesterday after playing the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL). Vice-captain Mahmudullah Riyad and Mohammad Ashraful earlier returned home as their teams made an early exit from the competition. The three other
No quick fix, says Pybus
ICC World Twenty20, Srilanka 2012 No quick fix, says Pybus Urges realism ahead of T20 World Cup The Bangladesh cricket team will enter the last stage of their preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup, when they leave for Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. The unofficial tour, which begins on September 6, will see the Tigers ... Read more
Pybus lodges complaint against powerful BCB director
Humiliated by director Dewan Shafiul Arefin Tutul, national cricket team head coach Richard Pybus has submitted a written complaint to Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal this week, it was learnt on Wednesday. Pybus made the complaint as Tutul, known as most powerful among the BCB directors,
A landmark deal
BCB issues first-class contracts In a move to bring more professionalism and improve the standard of the country’s first-class cricket, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have brought one hundred and twenty first class cricketers under central contract. Earlier in April, fifteen national cricketers received contracts in five categories and now 105 more active first class ... Read more
BCB brings 120 players under first-class payroll
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has finalised a list of 120 first-class cricketers, who will be under its payroll for a year starting from January 2013. The selection criteria have already created some controversies as some of the senior players were put in B category while players without any reputation have been placed in
Mahmudullah fancies chances in World T20
National vice-captain Mahmudullah is optimistic about their chances in the forthcoming ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka as he thinks the Pallekele International ground, where Bangladesh is scheduled to play their group phase matches, will suit their team. Bangladesh will take on Pakistan and New Zealand respectively at the same ground where
‘I love to take challenges’
Anamul Haque, nicknamed Bijoy, is the rising star of Bangladesh cricket. The young wicketkeeper-batsman has been on the fringes of the national squad for a while but recently took charge of the Bangladesh U19 team for the World Cup in Australia. The youngster finished as the highest run scorer in the tournament (365 runs in ... Read more
‘Could have been better’
ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, Australia 2012 ‘Could have been better’ Bangladesh Under-19s captain Anamul Haque felt that his side could have done a lot better than the seventh-place finish in the U-19 World Cup had his bowlers bowled anything close to their potential. Bangladesh finished seventh defeating Pakistan by five wickets in the play-off match ... Read more