Micromax ODI Cup Bangladesh Vs Zimbabwe 2010 The Ashraful fantasy Mohammad Ashraful still looks odds on to walk out to bat on Friday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium since he is the only name the decision-makers trust and try for all their money’s worth. If news from within the Bangladesh team’s think-tank is to be ... Read more
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Loss mars milestone
Bangladesh ace spinner Abdur Razzak achieved the most coveted milestone of his career taking his ODI haul to 153 wickets when he sent four Zimbabwe batsmen back to the pavilion in the first of the five-match one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday. Razzak was the pick of the bowlers taking four wickets ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Tiring travelogue The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the most colourful, and more widely watched than any of its predecessors. It was the first to be staged away from England and the first to be held in the subcontinent. A lot of matches were extremely close affairs; in the first match itself the co-hosts Pakistan ... Read more
Chigumbura was confident of a win
Zimbabwe skipper Elton Chigum-bura always believed they were going to win the first one-day international against Bangladesh despite the game was hanging in the balance for most of the period. Zimbabwe won the match by nine runs but not before Sakib al Hasan gave them a scare with a brilliant half-century. Sakib was out at ... Read more
Jamil refutes Rach’s report
Khondoker Jamiluddin, the general secretary of Bangladesh Hockey Federation has refuted coach Gerhard Peter Rach’s claim of the federation being an ‘Old Town Mafia’, adding that the German apparently indulged in this smear campaign in an effort to shirk his responsibility for the Asiad debacle. “Someone has to take the blame for the hockey team’s ... Read more
Bangladesh in Asian Beach Games
Bangladesh will take part in two disciplines in the second Asian Beach Games to be held in Muscat, Oman from December 8 to 16. Bangladesh contingent comprising women’s Kabaddi team and two body builders are expected to leave for Muscat on December 6. The women’s kabaddi team are being sent in light of their success ... Read more
Winning the only option
When Bangladesh kick off their five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe today there would be only one expectation: maintain the purple patch leading upto next year’s World Cup. The Tigers are buoyant after their recent 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand and go into the first one-dayer at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur with the tag ... Read more
Battle of spinners
Bangladesh-Zimbabwe series begins today Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are geared up for what their coaches have described as the potential battle of spinners, which begins at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. The first match of the five-match one-day international series will begin at 9:00am and will be aired live on Bangladesh Television
Comeback boost for Tamim
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal received a morale booster before his comeback to the international match against Zimbabwe when he was handed the certificate of Wisden Test Player of the Year on Tuesday. Tamim, who missed Bangladesh’s previous series against New Zealand because of his injury, received the certificate from none other than Sakib al Hasan, ... Read more
ICC Cricket world cup history
A thrilling start From the viewers’ perspective, the 1987 World Cup can lay claim to being the most thrilling. A large number of matches, including the final, were close with the result not clear till the last over. For sheer drama and late twists, the match of the tournament probably was the one between hosts ... Read more
Bangladesh League starts end of Dec
The fourth edition of the Bangladesh League will start in the last week of December at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium while the second edition of the Super Cup will be held in April next year at the Bangabandhu National Stadium after the conclusion of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The decision was taken ... Read more
BHF an ‘old town mafia’
Gerhard Peter Rach, Bangladesh’s temperamental hockey coach, blasted the hockey federation branding it ‘old town mafia’ for its mismanagement in his Asian Games report to the Bangladesh Olympic Association. In the report, the German claimed that he was not responsible for the debacle in the Guangzhou Asiad saying that he was not a part of ... Read more
Yuree breaks world record
Martial arts grandmaster and security management expert Dr. Mak Yuree has set a new world record by breaking two baseball bats with a single shin kick in the biggest martial arts exhibition in Great Britain on November 14. He was presented with the official World Record Certificate on November 14 in presence of
Siddons wants Tigers to give best
Bangladesh need to give their best if they want to beat Zimbabwe in the impending five-match one-day international series, warned coach Jaime Siddons on Monday. ‘Zimbabwe came here to play good cricket and they are an improving team. We’ve to be at our best and ensure that we maintain rhythm,’ Siddons said at the
Zimbabwe lose tour opener
The Bangladesh Cricket Board XI gave Zimbabwe a lesson of what they should expect in the five-match series winning the lone warm-up match by 29 runs at the BKSP on Monday. Young leg-spinner Nur Hossain produced a magic spell and 20-year-old BKSP boy Asif Ahmed, an off-spinner with high promise, aided him with 2-22 as ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
New stars galore World Cups often work as a process of regeneration as new upstarts start to take centre stage and old hands move to the side, leaving their final marks on public memory by performing in a global event. So it was with the 1987 World Cup, where a lot of champion cricketers took ... Read more
U-17 booters falter in qtrs
Bangladesh U-17 football team’s impressive run in the 51st Subrata Mukherjee Cup ended in the quarterfinals when they suffered a 5-4 defeat to Army Boys in tiebreaker at the Ambedkar Stadium in Indian capital of Delhi yesterday. The game rolled into shootout after the regulation time produced no goal. Bangladesh’s
Ansars top table again
National Cycling Ansars top table again Bangladesh Ansar and VDP defied the challenge of the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) to finish on top of the 34th NCC Bank National Cycling Cham-pionships at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday. BJMC threatened to topple the three-time top-finishers on the first day of their return to the sport ... Read more
Shakib joins anti AIDS campaign
Bangladesh cricket’s most popular face Shakib Al Hasan yesterday joined an elite group of cricketers from around the world as the International Cricket Council (ICC) appointed him the Think Wise campaign spokesperson for Bangladesh. The campaign aims at raising awareness about HIV and AIDs in order to make a positive impact
Sangakkara back on top
Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka captain, has reclaimed the top spot in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen, ending Sachin Tendulkar’s short-lived stay at the head of the table. Sangakkara’s performance in the first two Tests of the ongoing series against West Indies coincided with Tendulkar’s modest returns against New Zealand, leading to