The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday said that it will resume the scandal-hit Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 tournament in December this year. BPL was marred by allegations of match-fixing and non-payment of local and international players and was postponed just after its second season in 2013. Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful, Sri Lankan
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‘Swanny’ Shuvagata keeps on struggling
Bangladesh’s Shuvagata Hom is yet to find his feet in Test cricket despite being given repeated chance since last year. The inclusion of Shuvagata in the Test squad against Pakistan never came without questions as his role in the team is yet to be defined clearly. While coach Chandiaka Hathrusinghe believes him to be one of ... Read more
Tigers back to training
Members of the Bangladesh cricket team returned to training on Thursday amid match-fixing scandal that cast a dark shadow over the country’s cricketing landscape for the last few weeks. A total of 26 players from a preliminary squad reported to coach Shane Jurgensen and trainer Stuart Karppinen for the opening session, Tigers’ first since
ACSU officials leave today
The visiting ICC Anti-Corruption and Security officials are expected to leave Dhaka today after two days of renewed investigation into the match-fixing allegation, said the officials. Nizamudddin Chowdhury, the acting chief executive officer of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, told New Age that the ACSU officials are yet to submit their report
Akram calls on BCB to shift focus on cricket
Bangladesh Cricket Board needs to shift their focus back on cricket instead of channeling all its energies into the ongoing match-fixing scandal, feels chief selector Akram Khan. ‘We are talking too much on the issue [match-fixing] that is bad for overall cricket of this country,’ Akram told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday.
National Cricket C’ship
The first round of the 33rd National Cricket Championship concluded on Friday at different venues of the country with Khulna, Pabna, Gaibandha and Mymensingh Districts registering wins over Meherpur, Natore, Kurigram and Kishorganj Districts respectively. Khulna prevailed by 155 runs over Meherpur at Satkhira,
Gladiators break silence
Dhaka Gladiators, one of the prime accused in the ongoing match-fixing scandal, have broken its silence saying that it will accept punishment if it is proven guilty of match-fixing that has rocked the country’s cricketing. Gladiators also admitted that its chairman Salim Chowdhury,
Ashraful suspended sans match-fixing probe
Mohammad Ashraful, former skipper of Bangladesh, was kept off from any cricketing activities under the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) jurisdiction until the final report of the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) on investigations into suspected match-fixing and spot-fixing allegations in this year’s BPL is submitted. The decision was taken based on Ashraful’s
The rise and fall of a superstar
No one related with Bangladesh cricket could possibly have envisaged the rise and fall of Mohammad Ashraful, the country’s first cricket superstar. Ever since he made his bow in a Test match against Sri Lanka in 2001 as a precocious 17-year old, the only way was up for the big-hitting batsman.
ICC to probe Tigers’ int’l matches
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Monday that the International Cricket Council will investigate the alleged involvement of Bangladeshi players in match-fixing or spot-fixing during international matches. The name of former national skippers Khaled Mahmud
ACSU spends a busy day
Gladiators MD quizzed, report unlikely today The two-member ICC Anti Corruption and Security Unit panel had a busy day on Sunday when they interrogated some officials of the Bangladesh Premier League champions Dhaka Gladiators at a city hotel. The officials interrogated include Gladiators
Shock, disbelief as new scandal emerges
The country’s cricket lovers woke up in disbelief on Friday after media reports suggested the poison of match-fixing had been injected into the veins of the national players by some stalwarts of the past way back in 2004. It was reported that embattled Mohammad Ashraful
Mahmud demands rapid investigation
Former national skipper Khaled Mahumd wants immediate investigation into the allegation made against him by Mohammad Ashraful that he had introduced the batsman to bookies in 2004. The cricket arena was rocked after the scandal was leaked to the media that Ashraful had admitted to the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of the ICC
BCB boss urges patience
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan remained tight-lipped on the recent allegations of spot-fixing, preferring to keep his cards close to his chest before the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit concludes their investigation. While talking to reporters at his residence on Friday,
Sri Lanka U-19 clinch series
The Sri Lankan Under-19 team sealed the five-match youth one-day international series 3-2 after prevailing by 62 runs against the Bangladesh Under-19 team in the fifth and final one-dayer at Mirpur on Monday. Chasing Sri Lanka Under-19’s low total of 185-10,
SL U-19 level series
The Bangladesh Under-19 team went down by six wickets as per the Duckworth/Lewis method against their Sri Lankan counterparts in the fourth and penultimate youth one-day international at Mirpur on Saturday. Ahead of the final one-dayer of the five-match
Bangladesh U-19 go 2-1 up
The Bangladesh Under-19 team moved 2-1 up after registering a last-ball one-wicket win over their Sri Lankan counterparts in the third youth one-day international of the five-match series at Mirpur on Friday. Chasing the Sri Lanka Under-19 team’s 277-8 in 50 overs,
Bangladesh U-19 level series
Prodigious young batsman Nazmul Hossain scripted a wonderful hundred to lead Bangladesh Under-19 to a series-leveling 115-run win over their Sri Lankan counterparts in the second youth one-day international at the Sylhet Divisional Stadium on Tuesday. Nazmul blasted 109 off 131 balls with the help
SL U-19 go 1-0 up
The Sri Lanka Under-19 team prevailed by 62 runs as per the Duckworth/Lewis method in the first one-day international against Bangladesh Under-19 side at the Sylhet Divisional Stadium on Sunday. Electing to bat first after winning the toss, Bangladesh U-19 team were bundled out for a meagre 137 in 47.1 overs with Abu Sayeem (43 ... Read more
Tigers start well after toil
Bangladesh made a quick start to make up for some lost ground after the bowlers toiled hard to dismiss Zimbabwe in their first innings in the first Test at the Harare Sports Club on Thursday. The Tigers reached 95-1 in-25 overs they got a chance to bat on the second day, which saw Zimbabwe dominating ... Read more