Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons is keen on the Tigers playing international cricket next month after yesterday’s washout in Chittagong. The current series against Zimbabwe is the last international fixture Bangladesh have ahead of the 2011 World Cup. The Tigers head coach, who returned from Brisbane on Friday night after wife Kim gave birth to
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Siddikur slides
Bangladesh’s golfing sensation Siddikur Rahman once again showed the erratic nature of his game as he slid down from third position to joint 23rd after round two of the 300,000-dollar Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open yesterday. Siddikur finished round two with a disappointing 1-over-par 73 for an overall score of
Tickets on sale from Jan 1
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officially announced yesterday that tickets for next year’s ICC World Cup in Bangladesh will go on sale from January 1, 2011 at designated outlets across the country. The decision was taken during a Local Organising Committee (LOC) meeting on Tuesday night but the board has yet to finalize the specific ... Read more
Mashrafee inspires Shafiul
Bangladesh pacer Shafiul Islam, who wreaked havoc on Zimbabwe by picking up four wickets in the third match of the five-match ODI series, said the return of Mashrafee bin Murtaza inspired him to do well. ‘Mashrafee finding his rhythm back is really good for both himself and the team that also boosted our confidence and I ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Lankans conquer the world The 1996 World Cup was the second to be hosted in the subcontinent, with Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan the co-hosts. The big change to the format was that there were 12 teams involved. Nine were Test nations — Zimbabwe had been awarded Test status in mid-’92 — and three associate ... Read more
Utseya looks to the spinners
Zimbabwe captain Prosper Utseya is looking forward to utilising the spin-friendly wicket to their advantage as they practised at the Chittagong divisional stadium on Wednesday. Zimbabwe, who lost the last two one-dayers because of their inability to bat against the spinning quartet of Bangladesh, also have as many spinners as the
Bangladesh target last four
The Bangladesh women’s football team left Dhaka for Cox’s Bazar yesterday morning to take part in the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship with a hope of making it to the semifinals. Bangladesh have been placed in Group A along with favourites India, Sri Lanka and Bhutan while Group B consists of Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives ... Read more
Pioneer League starts
The DCC Pioneer Football League was inaugurated yesterday in the presence of participating 80 teams at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium. However, the organizers could not ensure when the matches would get underway. “We have not finalized the fixture yet because the examinations of the players is going on and
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Cup facts The 1992 World Cup, the fifth cricket World Cup, was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. It began with a match between the hosts in Auckland on 22 February and continued till 25 March. A total of 39 matches were played over 33 days. The teams taking part were Pakistan, England, New ... Read more
Siddons to join Tigers in time
Teams arrive in Ctg Jamie Siddons is set to join the Tigers on the morning of the fourth one-day match against Zimbabwe in Chittagong on Friday. The head coach rushed off to Brisbane to join his wife and newborn baby on December 4, the eve of the third one-dayer of the five-match series. He will ... Read more
Pioneer League returns
The league that has produced numerous stars like Monem Munna, Rummon Bin Wali Sabbir, Samrat Hossain Emily, Imtiaz Ahmed Nakib, and Jakir Hossain is all set to return to business after a three-year hiatus as the Pioneer Football League gets re-inaugurated today at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium. The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), which ... Read more
Tigers go 2-1 up against Zim
Left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak and paceman Shafiul Islam grabbed four wickets each to give Bangladesh an easy 65-run win against Zimbabwe in the third one-day international and a 2-1 lead in the five-match series on Monday. Zimbabwe looked distinctly second best when they were reduced to 47 for six before limping
Mashrafee finds form finally
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
Razzak deadlier by the day
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
ICC Cricket World Cup History
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
ICC Cricket World Cup History
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
Eves warm up well for SAFF
Omra-ching Marma and Sabina Khatun scored a brace each while Jahanara Janu, Suinu Pru Marma and Suravi Eti netted one apiece as Bangladesh women’s football team thrashed their Bhutanese counterparts 7-0 in the preparation match ahead of the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship at the Mohammadpur Physical Training Institute ground on
BCB mulls day-night match in Ctg
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
‘We lack one Razzak’
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
Eve cricketers get prize money
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