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Mashrafee bin Murtaza finally found his form and rhythm that he was looking for ever since his comeback from injury, in the third one-dayer of the five-match series against Zimbabwe on Monday. Mashrafee started the third match like a man on a mission, bowling superbly from ball one. His line and length were excellent and ... Read more

In the space of just three games, Abdur Razzak has almost doubled his wicket-tally for the year. Wicketless in the first five one-day matches of 2010, the left-arm spinner has gradually built into the sort of year we have gotten used to from this steady performer. Before the Zimbabwe series, Razzak had picked up 16 ... Read more

Sachin, Lara and others The 1992 World Cup was the first appearance on the global stage of players who are well-known to today’s generation, and some who have since been idolised and elevated to the status of all-time greats and geniuses. Two of the greatest names in batsmanship, Brian Charles Lara of West Indies and ... Read more

Rain fleeces SA There was one black mark against the 1992 World Cup that called into question the fairness of some results, particularly the semifinal between England and South Africa in Sydney on 22 March. It was the rain rule — specifically the calculations regarding overs and runs to chop off from a target in ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is desperately looking to hold one of the last two matches of ongoing series against Zimbabwe in Chittagong under floodlight to fulfil its commitment to the visitors. The BCB was forced to abandon the day-night arrangement for Monday’s third game in Dhaka due to floodlight problems at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium ... Read more

Zimbabwe coach Alan Butcher said they must overcome the psychological problem of facing left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak if they are to bounce back from the 2-1 deficit in the five-match series. Razzak claimed 13 wickets in three games including his man-of-the-match performances in two matches in a row, helping Bangladesh to put their shock nine-run ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president AHM Mustafa Kamal handed over the cheques for Tk 1,00,000 to each of the 15 members of the Asian Games silver medal winning women’s cricket team at a function at the GP-BCB Cricket Academy Complex on Monday. He also gave Tk 50,000 each to the seven officials of the squad. Kamal ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board praised the passion and dedication of all the spectators who came to watch the third ODI match between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on Monday despite having some time adjusting problems. The match was originally scheduled to start at 2:30pm but later it was held a daytime because of poor floodlight conditions at ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board avoided a major embarrassment on Sunday when it cancelled today’s day-night match against Zimbabwe for insufficient light and decided to hold a day game instead. The match, third of the five-match series scheduled to begin at 2:30pm, will now begin at 9:00am. The decision was made after a drama in the ... Read more

Zimbabwe wicketkeeper-batsman Tatenda Taibu feels that if his side keep on fighting then they can make a comeback in the third one-dayer today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. He added that in international cricket every team goes through bad patches, from which you need to learn how to bounce back

Bangladesh will go into the third one-day international against Zimbabwe today without their coach Jamie Siddons, who left for Australia to be with his pregnant girlfriend Kim late on Sunday. Siddons, who attended a practice session in the morning, hardly had any idea about the tour and hastily arranged an air ticket of the Australia-bound ... Read more

Bangladesh ace left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak once again crowned his career with a unique hat-trick and a five-wicket haul in the second ODI of the five-match series against Zimbabwe on Friday. Razzak had Prosper Utseya caught by Naeem Islam at long-on for 32 in the last ball of his ninth over and then returned to ... Read more

Cornered tigers roar The 1992 World Cup. held in Australia and New Zealand, saw many innovations that had appeared in the intervening period between the last tournament and the current one. Most of the 39 matches were day-night affairs, with players wearing coloured uniforms that had the players’ names emblazoned on the back. For the ... Read more

Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigum-bura lashed out at his careless batsmen for throwing their wickets after losing to hosts Bangladesh by six wickets in the second of the five-match ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. They were bundled out for a modest 191 runs in 46.2 overs as the spinners of Bangladesh

Bangladesh skipper Sakib al Hasan is set to finish the year as leading one-day wicket-taker after he grabbed 4-39 against Zimbabwe on Friday. His third four-wicket haul took his tally to 42 from 25 matches, making him already the most successful one-day bowler in the calendar year. He overtook Ryan Harris of Australia, who