The long overdue deal of the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s next TV broadcast and marketing rights is unlikely to be completed before the next board election, officials said on Sunday. The BCB faces a race against time to ink their television broadcast and marketing rights deal before the forthcoming home series against New Zealand which
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BCB brings SLG to shoot Tigers
The Bangladesh Cricket Board had acquired a device called SLG (speed-light-gate) in order to examine the actual fielding and fitness level of the Tigers. The device that is widely used by the cricket giants of the world will help the coaching management of the Tigers in obtaining the right data on their
Game On promises to pay BPL dues
Bangladesh Premier League’s event management company Game On Sports Management promised to pay a part of their dues for it’s second edition to the Bangladesh Cricket Board by next week, said a BCB official on Thursday. Game On owes Tk 19 crore to the BCB and after lot of uncertainty
BCB election looming large
The election of the Bangladesh Cricket Board plunged into a deeper crisis as divisional and district sports association members felt deeply wounded as board president Nazmul Hasan met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to discuss election related issues recently without their knowledge despite being promised earlier.
BCB hopeful of DPL in June
The Bangladesh Cricket Board said it is confident of starting the Dhaka Premier League in June after it held a successful meeting with the representatives of the clubs on Monday. BCB president Nazmul Hasan attended the meeting, which discussed some new formats including the introduction of a new payment method for the players
BCB set for crucial meeting as many issues pending
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s ad-hoc committee members will be passing a busy time when they attend the executive board meeting on Monday as several key issues remained to be solved. The most important issue is the BCB elections as they are running out of time after all the member nations of the ICC completed forming ... Read more
Cricketers return to business
The local cricketers were back in business after spending much of their time without any cricketing activities as the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s high-performance unit began its fitness camp at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday. On the first day only 22 cricketers reported from the 32-member
BCB runs out of election deadline
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is running out of time to avoid a sanction by the International Cricket Council, who set a deadline for an elected body by June 2013. In the ICC’s annual general meeting in 2011, it was agreed that all member boards will have an independent elected body by June 2012. A further ... Read more
BCB to serve legal notice on BPL teams
The Bangladesh Cricket Board decided to serve a legal notice to the franchises of the Bangladesh Premier League today asking them to pay their franchise fee or face expulsion from the tournament, the BCB officials said on Saturday. The BCB is mulling a similar move over the Game
BCB bosses meet district organisers
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan met the officials of the District Sports Associations in an exchange of views programme at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Saturday. Nazmul, who was accompanied by members of the ad-hoc committee, assured the officials of the DSA of every support in order to run cricket smoothly in their
Bangladesh could host Asia Cup next year
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is hoping to stage the Asia Cup 2014 after they received a green signal from India, which was originally scheduled to host the one-day tournament in February-March next year, said the officials on Saturday. The Asian Cricket Council had offered India to hosts the twelfth
Sajidul eager to make up for lost time
Left-arm paceman Sajidul Islam was a surprise inclusion in the 15-member Test squad announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe later this month as he was handed a comeback to the national fold after five years. Sajidul made his debut along with opener Tamim Iqbal and Junaed Siddique
T20 WC ’14 logo launches today
The members of the International Cricket Council and Bangladesh Cricket Board will host a colourful programme today at a city hotel to launch the logo of the ICC World Twenty20 2014 to be hosted in Bangladesh. The one-and-a-half hour programme will have several segments that include music and dance from renowned artists along with a magic ... Read more
Bangladesh’s request falls on deaf ears
Zimbabwe Cricket did not bother to listen to the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s request of starting the month-long tour of the Tigers with the one-day international series as the tour will begin with a two-match Test series in Harare. Earlier the BCB requested ZC to launch the series with the shorter version of the game though the ... Read more
Game On misses first deadline
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has the time for Game On Sports Management, the event management company entrusted with the responsibility of running the Bangladesh Premier League, to clear the payments of the tournament’s second edition after the company failed to meet the March 28 deadline, a BCB official said on Wednesday. The BCB is expected to ... Read more
Players receive wages, but not all from BCB
After failing several deadlines, the Bangladesh Cricket Board is still unsure whether all the players received at least 25 per cent of their payment fully as two franchises did not deposit any money to its account. Instead of paying the players through the BCB, Chittagong Kings and Sylhet Royals claimed that they have the made ... Read more
Pay or we’ll make you pay, BCB boss tells BPL teams
Franchises will make a mistake if they don’t clear player payments before the next deadline expires, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan warned in Chittagong on Friday. His warning came after several franchises missed the previous deadline, ended on January 31, which caused an outcry in local and international media as players made some
Last-minute PCB decision puts franchises in trouble
The last-minute decision of Pakistan to keep its players off from the Bangladesh Premier League put the franchises in deep trouble to find replacements despite the assurance given by Bangladesh Cricket Board. The BCB waited until 10:00am on Wednesday for the Pakistani players and instructed the franchises to look for alternatives after a negative reply ... Read more
BCB boss blasts Kamal over ‘unconditional’ comments
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan took a swipe at his predecessor AHM Mustafa Kamal for denying the fact that the country had made an unconditional commitment to tour Pakistan. Kamal recently said he made a commitment about the Pakistan tour but it was not unconditional as has been described by Nazmul in the
BCB drops dubious bylaws
After a long dilly-dally the Bangladesh Cricket Board dropped the controversial point system in the Bangladesh Cricket League and reinstated the bylaws that was provided to the franchises initially. In a comical mistake the BCB provided the franchises and the media two separate bylaws of the tournament, which stoked a major controversy as they had ... Read more