With one foot already in the main qualification round, Lebanon vowed to take Bangladesh seriously when they take on the hosts in the second round second leg match of the World Cup pre-qualifies in Dhaka on Thursday. A buoyant Lebanon team arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday knowing that all they have to do is to ... Read more
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Tigers go to Zim today
The Tigers will depart for Zimbabwe this morning to play one Test and five one-day internationals. Shakib Al Hasan’s men will open their campaign with a three-day warm-up match at Harare starting from July 30. Bangladesh is going to play Test cricket after a fourteen-month break while Zimbabwe will mark their return to Test cricket ... Read more
Super Cup games deferred
The semifinals of Grameenphone Super Cup have been deferred by two days and will now be held on August 2 and 3 instead of July 31 and August 1 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The final will take place on August 6. “We have brought changes in schedules to give some time of the clubs ... Read more
Argentina coach loses job over Copa failure
Argentina’s failure to win the Copa América as hosts and end an 18-year wait for a major title cost coach Sergio Batista his job. The Argentine Football Association (AFA), facing an identity crisis in the national game, announced Batista had stepped down after his team were knocked out of the tournament in the quarter-finals
Tigers excited about Test return
Without being unduly bothered about their prolonged absence from the longer-version of the game, the Bangladesh national team players were instead upbeat about getting back to the number one form of the game; Test cricket. Terming the five-day game as the best form, both Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan and new
Law prepared to get tough
Bangladesh coach Stuart Law has cautioned his charges that they will be taken to task if they are not ready to listen to him. During a press briefing on Monday ahead of the month-long Zimbabwe tour, Law said: ‘I am here to help along with other coaching staff, to try and get the best out ... Read more
Campbell’s parting words to batsmen
Outgoing Australian batting coach of the GP-BCB Academy Allan Campbell urged the Bangladeshi batsmen to know where their off-stump is while facing the fast bowlers in bouncy wickets. Campbell will return home today after ending his month-long training camp during which he not only worked with the Academy batsmen and wicketkeepers, but also had a ... Read more
Change of guard
Nafees Iqbal may well have played his last Test five years ago, but the most telling contribution of his 12-match career came on January 18, 2005. It was the last day of the second Test against Zimbabwe and in front of a semi-packed Bangabandhu National Stadium, the Tigers had to bat out three full sessions ... Read more
Sakib warned, at last
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has finally come up with an official warning for embattled skipper Sakib al Hasan after his recent outburst against selectors and a decision to skip training created a furor. The BCB sent a warning letter to Sakib on Sunday, confirmed the officials, adding that the skipper was told of his limit ... Read more
Tamim cleared to play Test in Zimbabwe
Bangladesh can heave a sigh of relief as opener Tamim Iqbal has been cleared to play the one-off Test match against Zimbabwe next month after a scan on his injured groin on Sunday showed no severe damage. Tamim picked up the groin injury in his penultimate match for Nottinghamshire in the Friend Life Twenty-20 tournament ... Read more
Tigers toil till the end
Tasamul Haque and Alauddin Babu nearly spoiled Tigers’ preparation for the Zimbabwe tour but their untimely dismissals gave the national side a narrow escape in their last practice match against GP-BCB National Cricket Academy yesterday. The Mushfiqur Rahim-led side finally won the game at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium by 40
Law not impressed with batting
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
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