Bangladesh’s new coach Stuart Law has asked his batsmen not to repeat the mistakes they made during the second warm-up match against the GP-BCB Academy in order to avoid trouble in the upcoming one-off Test and one-day series against Zimbabwe. Law, who watched the Tigers win the two-day match against the Academy team at the ... Read more
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Tamim looks to make up for lost time
Bangladesh vice-captain Tamim Iqbal said on Saturday that it will take one or two more practice sessions for himself and skipper Sakib al Hasan to get up to the speed with the rest of the squad after missing a large part of the preparation camp for the tour of Zimbabwe. Tamim was away in England ... Read more
Lebanon thrash Bangladesh 4-0
Bangladesh’s hopes of qualifying for the main draw of the Asian World Cup qualifiers were dented severely on Saturday when they lost 0-4 to Lebanon in Beirut. A last minute change in the team set-up contributed heavily to the huge defeat as Bangladesh were out of sort from the beginning and conceded two goals in ... Read more
Siddik finishes 5th in Selangor
Siddikur Rahman secured a fifth place finish at the Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters in Malaysia with a score of four-under-par 68 in the final round on Saturday. In doing so, the Bangladeshi golfer earned $13,320 (Tk 10 lakh approx) in prize money. Siddik began his round promisingly with a birdie on the opening hole before ... Read more
Chelsea snap up starlet
The new manager of English football club Chelsea on Saturday announced a deal with Barcelona to sign teenager Oriol Romeu, as the London team prepared for a game in Thailand on their Asia tour. Blues boss Andre Villas-Boas confirmed agreement had been reached with the Spanish giants but said the 19-year-old defensive midfielder had yet ... Read more
Bangladesh take on Lebanon today
Bangladesh will be relying on their recent form to create history when they face Lebanon in the first leg of their second round World Cup pre-qualifiers in Beirut today. A win in the match, scheduled at Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium at 8:00pm, will take Bangladesh one step closer to a place among the top-20 ... Read more
Sakib clears the air, finally
Beleaguered Bangla-desh skipper Sakib al Hasan finally came to terms with the fact that he has played it wrong by publicly criticising the selectors and not seeking a leave before skipping training. Sakib cleared the smoke in a meeting with the selectors and Bangladesh Cricket Board chief executive officer Manzur Ahmed on Friday and said ... Read more
Talent impressive, pitches not so
Lawson’s Verdict Talent impressive, pitches not so Geoff Lawson’s period as the specialist fast bowling coach for the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy ended yesterday with mostly encouraging words except for a warning that could greatly help the Tigers in the immediate future. The former Australian cricketer, who arrived on July 4, mainly worked with the ... Read more
Nafees keeps up form
Shahriar Nafees continued his good form in the practice matches as the left-hander hit 72 against the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team in a rain-interrupted day at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The national batsmen looked quite uncomfortable against the young academy bowlers and the 104-ball 72 from opener Nafees, who slammed a hundred ... Read more
Steady Siddik climbs up to 5th in Selangor
Siddikur Rahman improved on his overnight position of tied for 6th to move up a place on the leaderboard at the end of the third round of the Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters in Malaysia on Friday. Siddik, the pre-tournament favourite, began the day promisingly with a birdie on the opening hole of a sun-baked Kota ... Read more
L’pool title contenders
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney believes a rejuvenated Liverpool can emerge as genuine contenders in this season’s Premier League race, reports said Friday. The England striker, who fired a hattrick for United this week during their tour of the United States, said that Liverpool’s summer transfer activity would leave them better equipped to challenge for
Sakib style of seeking leave
Sakib al Hasan thought a text message to cricket operations chief Enayet Hossain should be enough for him to take a leave from national team duty. Sakib sent a text message to Siraj on Thursday to justify his unauthorised absence from the team’s training camp, which came as the latest surprise after he had already ... Read more
Law starts work sans Sakib
New Bangladesh coach Stuart Law began his work with the Tigers on Sunday at the Sher-e Bangla National Stadium without skipper Sakib al Hasan and his deputy Tamim Iqbal. Tamim was given a week’s rest to nurse his groin injury, but the absence of Sakib came as a mystery as he did not inform the ... Read more
Who is right?
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan came down heavily on the Akram Khan-led selection panel for not taking his opinion over the selection of the team for Zimbabwe. The all-rounder, who returned home from England on Sunday after playing county cricket, expressed his disappointment over the team selection while talking with the reporters at the
4 Indians & 4 Aussies in ICC’s all-time XI
In the week when England host India at Lord’s in the 2,000th Test match, there was no room for any English players in an International Cricket Council (ICC) poll to decide cricket fans’ greatest Test team of all time. Names like WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Jim Laker, Fred Trueman and Ian Botham were ... Read more
Hesson new Kenya coach
Kenya have appointed New Zealander Michael Hesson as the new national cricket coach, officials said on Tuesday. The Dunedin-born Hesson, 36, is widely regarded as one of the best young coaches in the game, having been involved in coaching the New Zealand A side and the Otago Volts provincial team for six years
Barcelona return to training
Spanish and European champions Barcelona began their pre-season training on Monday with just their Argentinian and Brazilian players who took part in the Copa America missing. Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique were among the 18 Barca players who took part in a light training session after completing physical
Law’s focus on teamwork
When Stuart Law met his new charges at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday, it was more than just smiles and handshakes. His brief with most of the national cricketers surrounding him centred on him being a hard, but fair guy. Later during his first official press conference, it was along a similar theme; the former ... Read more
New world order
Tests Through Time New world order Australia dominated through the latter part of the 1990s and into the first years of the new millennium. Nothing stood between them at that point, be it the Ashes, Frank Worrell Trophy or the World Cup. After Steve Waugh called winning in India the ‘final frontier’, the Adam Gilchrist-Ricky ... Read more
Nafees warms up with a ton
Shahriar Nafees took another step towards a return to the Test team when he struck 115 against the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy on Sunday. The two-day match was marred by rain yesterday with only nine overs of the Academy side’s innings possible (33 for one) but on Day One, it was Nafees who stood out ... Read more