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Bangladesh wasted an opportunity to end their winless streak in South Africa when they suffered a 20-run defeat in the first Twenty20 international in Bloemfontein on Thursday. In their first day-night game of the tour, the Tigers restricted South Africa to 195-4 and reached 97-2 in 10 overs to give the hosts some scare before ... Read more

Yasir Ali made unbeaten 101 as Bangladesh A team beat their Irish counterparts by 76 runs in their fifth and final one-day match to complete a 4-0 clean sweep in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. The first one-day was abandoned due to rain. Batting first, Bangladesh ‘A’ racked up 286-6 in their

Bangladesh pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman is set to miss a major part of Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 tournament due to an injury he picked up in South Africa, said a physician of the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday. Rajshahi Kings roped in Mustafizur, who missed the cut in the icon category after his original suitor ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan will be Bangladesh’s third captain on a disappointing tour of South Africa as they seek to regain some pride in two Twenty20 internationals, starting in Bloemfontein today. Bangladesh’s all-time leading all-rounder was reappointed T20 captain after a seven-year gap following the retirement from the format of Mashrafee bin Murtaza.

Bangladesh A team defeated their Irish counterpart by four wickets in the fourth game to clinch the five-match one-day series 3-0 at the Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. The game was curtailed to a 20-over per side affair after both team’s players did not want to play three one-dayers in ... Read more

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal said on Wednesday that he might miss the entire fifth edition of Bangladesh Premier League if it took him to get completely fit for next international series against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh are currently scheduled to hosts Sri Lanka for a full-pledged bilateral series in January before playing a tri-series one-day international ... Read more

Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis on Tuesday backed Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman to come good again overcoming his recent poor form. ‘Cricketers nowadays are very smart, if you don’t keep improving and don’t work really hard on it – you will tend to struggle, which we are seeing all around the world,’

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Tuesday they would investigate and take appropriate action against three cricketers if they were found breaking the team rules in South Africa. The BCB president was reacting to the reports that suggested cricketers Nasir Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Shafiul Islam had been spotted in a casino at ... Read more

Bangladesh national cricket team completed another one-day international series this year where team’s youngsters failed to perform at an expected level, contributing to the team’s poor results. Over the past few years, Bangladesh emerged as one of the most successful limited over sides, thanks, largely to the performances of some senior players and emergence

As Farhaan Behardien fiercely drove Rubel Hossain towards sweeper cover for two runs in the penultimate ball of their innings, South Africa completed their 1000 runs against Bangladesh in the series. Behardien hit Rubel a boundary in the next ball to take the home side to 369-6 – their highest ever score against Bangladesh – ... Read more

Injury-affected Bangladesh national cricket team will look to avoid a clean sweep in the three-match one-day international series against South Africa when they will face the hosts in the final match at Buffalo Park in East London today. The Tigers are still unable to open their account in the tour having suffered two crushing defeats ... Read more

Bangladesh on Saturday included batsman Mominul Haque in their 14-man squad for the two-match Twenty20 international series against South Africa. Mominul came into the side as opening batsman Tamim Iqbal failed to recover sufficiently from a muscle injury that ruled him out of the remaining of the tour.

Former national captain Naimur Rahman was left to face a battle to retain his position as Bangladesh Cricket Board director after six councillors brought nomination papers on Friday to contest for two positions from the Dhaka Division in the upcoming elections. Apart from Manikganj councillor Naimur, councillor of Gapalganj district Sheikh Fazle Naim, councillor of

Bangladesh’s struggling cricket team in South Africa suffered a further blow on Friday when opener Tamim Iqbal was ruled out third and final one-day international, scheduled in East London on October 22. Team manager Minhajul Abedin said Tamim is also unlikely to play two Twenty20 internationals against the home side that will follow the three ... Read more

Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe earns double than country’s highest paid cricketer Sakib al Hasan from the Bangladesh Cricket Board, leading cricket website EspnCricinfo reveals in a survey published this week. According to a report published in its monthly supplement Cricket Monthly, Hathurusinghe earns annually $340,000 from the BCB as salary and bonuses,

Bangladesh on Thursday added pace bowler Shafiul Islam for the reminder of their South Africa tour to replace injured Mustafizur Rahman, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board Shafiul was scheduled to leave Dhaka to join the squad in South Africa on Thursday night while would return on October 23 to continue his recovery from