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
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Poor light forces BCB to hold Zimbabwe match at daytime today
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
Zim hope to fight
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
Siddons leaves for Australia
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
Nepal to face Maldives in SAFF opener
The first ever SAFF Women’s Football Champion-ship will kick off on December 12 with the match between Nepal and the Maldives at 2:30 pm at the Cox’s Bazar stadium. Bangladesh Football Federation announced the fixtures of the meet on Sunday. Hosts Bangladesh will face Sri Lanka on Dec 13, Bhutan on Dec 15 and India ... Read more
Hat-trick hero Razzak
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
ICC Cricket world cup history
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
Chigumbura blames batsmen for defeat
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
Sakib set to finish year on a high
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
TT players training hard
The International Table Tennis Federation has started a camp from December 1 to 10 at Paltan wooden floor gymnasium with the participation of twenty-two top paddlers, twelve men and ten women, to improve the standard of the national team. Another three-week long camp will begin with twenty-six emerging players including six girls
Who’s saying what about FIFA’s decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar:
‘I think it was the wrong decision.’ US President Barack Obama after America lost out to Qatar for 2022. ‘I think the bid team have done everything possible, we couldn’t have got a better bid.’ David Beckham after England’s doomed 2018
Siddikur in 32nd place
Siddikur Rahman was placed 32nd on the leaderboard with a par score of 144 and six shot off the leaders after two rounds of play in the Hero Honda Indian Open at the Delhi Golf Club yesterday. Siddikur scored par in both rounds of the 72-hole tournament. However, the first round score had him in ... Read more
Division-II football
Garpara Association emerged champions in the Second Division Football League with a convincing 3-1 win over Kowri KCH Muslim Sporting Club at the Shahid Miraz-Tapan Stadium in Manikganj yesterday. Chanchal gave Garpara a 17th minute lead before Arif levelled for Kowri KCH Muslim Sporting in the 33rd minute. However, two minutes later, Garpara went ahead ... Read more
Sakib gets his boys
Bangladesh-Zimbabwe 2nd ODI today Skipper Sakib al Hasan is likely to get his preferred team when Bangladesh will play the second one-day international against Zimbabwe on Friday. Sakib called the team selection for the first match into question saying he would have liked middle-order batsmen Roqibul Hassan and
Flower backs Zimbabwe
Former Zimbabwe cricketer and at present their batting consultant Grant Flower thinks his team has enough firepower to repeat their feat in their second one-day international against Bangladesh today. Zimbabwe eked out a narrow nine-run win in the first ODI on Wednesday to take an unexpected 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Flower joined the ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Cup facts The 1987 World Cup was the fourth cricket World Cup, and the first to be held in the Indian subcontinent. Neighbours India and Pakistan were the co-hosts of the tournament, which was spread over 21 venues across the two countries. The format was the same as in 1983: two groups of four with ... Read more
Hosts drawn in tough group
Bangladesh, the host nation of the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship, were placed in Group A alongside SA Games champions India in the draw of the competition at the BFF House on Thursday. The other two rivals of the host team in Group A are Sri Lanka and Bhutan. On the other hand Nepal, ... Read more
BCB comes up to celebrate 10-years of Test status
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold a concert as well as a fireworks show at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) to celebrate Bangladesh’s 10 years in Test cricket this month. The game’s governing body initially did not think of any programme to celebrate the decade of Test status although all former Test captains of ... Read more
Batting fallacy cost Tigers
Zimbabwe Take 1-0 Lead Batting fallacy cost Tigers Four run outs punctuated with a number of ill-conceived shots made Bangladesh pay heavily as the hosts fell to Zimbabwe by nine runs yesterday in the first game of their five-match one-day series. After the visitors put up a 210-run target on the predominantly batsman-friendly Sher-e-Bangla National ... Read more
Sakib blasts team-mates, questions selection
Sakib al Hasan is known for his outspokenness and his monosyllabic reply to many questions, still the manner in which he lambasted his team-mates after Bangladesh’s nine run defeat to Zimbabwe in the first one-day international on Wednesday came as a big shock and surprise to many. After his gallant batting effort proved futile, Sakib, ... Read more