Rubel Hossain atoned for his poor last-over show in the previous match to bowl Chittagong Kings to a 33-run win over Duronto Rajshahi and send them to the play-off in the Bangladesh Premier League on Wednesday. Rubel was Kings’ villain in their last match against Rangpur Riders when he conceded 16 runs in the final over ... Read more
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Royals knock Burners out
A late assault by Mohammad Nabi and Elton Chigumbura guided Sylhet Royals to a one-wicket win over Barisal Burners at Mirpur which virtually ended the Burners’ campaign in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League. Nabi made an unbeaten 16 while Chigumbura scored 19 as the Royals reached
It’s do-or-die for Kings, Duronto
Chittagong Kings and Duronto Rajshahi will engage in a do-or-die clash today that will go a long way in determining which teams will go through to the play offs of the Bangladesh Premier League 2013. The encounter between the Kings and Duronto has been rightly billed as a knockout clash as the winners of the ... Read more
Burners shock holders to stay alive
Barisal Burners kept their hopes alive for a place in the last four of the Bangladesh Premier League when they handed holders Dhaka Gladiators a seven-wicket thrashing in Dhaka on Tuesday. Azhar Mahmood and Alauddin Babu shared six wickets between them to dismiss Gladiators for a bellow-par 114 before Brad Hodge smashed an unbeaten 70 off ... Read more
Royals thrash KRB to confirm top-two finish
Sylhet Royals joined Dhaka Gladiators in the qualifiers for the final in the Bangladesh Premier League after they trounced Khulna Royal Bengals by a huge 61-run margin at Mirpur on Tuesday. The win, which was backed by two half centuries from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Paul Sterling, took the Royals’ tally to 16 points from 11 ... Read more
Ton-up Ashraful takes Gladiators to top-two
Mohammad Ashraful returned to his best to score his first ever Twenty20 century and guide Dhaka Gladiators to a six-wicket win over Khulna Royal Bengals in the Bangladesh Premier League in Dhaka on Monday. Gladiators, riding on Ashraful’s unbeaten 103 from 58 balls, raced to 180-4 to confirm their top-two finish in league phase, which ... Read more
Riders move to fourth
Rangpur Riders prevailed over Duronto Rajshahi by 20 runs in the Bangladesh Premier League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday to move to fourth place in the standings – the last semi-final spot. The Riders have played the same number of matches as Rajshahi and have accumulated the same number of points but leapfrog ... Read more
Khulna and Chittagong face off in U-18 final
Khulna Division and Chittagong Division reached the final of the Young Tigers Under-18 National Cricket after overcoming Sylhet Division and Rajshahi Division respectively. The final will be played at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi from February 13-15. Khulna defeated Sylhet by seven wickets in their semi-final encounter at the
Riders down Kings in nail-biting finish
Rangpur Riders brought high-flying Chittagong Kings down to earth with a thrilling five-wicket win in the last over of their Bangladesh Premier League encounter at Mirpur on Saturday. Set a target of 161 runs, Riders needed 16 runs in the final over and they got exactly that to record their first win in five matches, ... Read more
Sakib show sinks Burners
Ace all-rounder Sakib al Hasan produced a masterful performance with both bat and ball to enable Dhaka Gladiators to a straightforward eight-wicket win over Barisal Burners in the Bangladesh Premier League at Mirpur on Saturday. Besides grabbing 2-22 with the leather, Sakib blasted 54 runs from 31 balls as Dhaka
Jurgensen confirmed as new Tigers coach
Saqlain may return, no decision on local assistant coach, six-players told to take proper rest before SL series Bowling coach Shane Jurgensen was confirmed as the new head coach of the Bangladesh cricket team for one year, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Saturday. The decision was made at a meeting of the cricket operations ... Read more
BPL avoids boycott narrowly
The payment row in the Bangladesh Premier League has nearly caused a major embarrassment for the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday when seven foreign cricketers of Duronto Rajshahi refused to take to the field for non-payment of their dues. After a lot of drama behind the scenes, they finally played the game against
Royal victory for Kings
Chittagong Kings rewrote the record that they set up 24 hours ago when they humiliated table-toppers Sylhet Royals by 119 runs in the Bangladesh Premier League on Friday. This is the biggest ever victory margin recorded in a BPL match in its brief history, improving Kings’ 89-run win over Khulna Royal Bengals in their previous ... Read more
Shahriar sees KRB home
Shahriar Nafees became the latest cricketer to have benefitted from quitting captaincy in the Bangladesh Premier League when his 51-ball 71 guided a struggling Khulna Royal Bengals to a seven-wicket win over Duronto Rajshahi on Friday. Shahriar gave up the captaincy after Royal Bengals were shot out for the tournament’s
Aminul likely to join Tigers
Former Bangladesh captain Aminul Islam could join the national team coaching set-up for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe if everything goes according to plan. Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to include a local assistant coach in the national team management to help Shane Jurgensen, who is set to be the interim head ... Read more
Kings gun down sorry KRB
Ryan ten Doeschate played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 95 runs from 61 balls to set up a crushing 89-run win for Chittagong Kings over Khulna Royal Bengals in the Bangladesh Premier League on Thursday. Looked set for a disaster with 10-3, the Dutchman batted sensibly to take Kings to a respectable 156-5 before their ... Read more
Shamsur’s innings goes in vain
Shamsur Rahman played a stunning innings of 98 not out but it went in vain as Sylhet Royals beat Rangpur Riders by six wickets in the Bangladesh Premier League match in Mirpur on Thursday. Half-centuries from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Mushfiqur Rahim propelled Royals to 198-4 for the highest ever successful run-chase in BPL after their ... Read more
Doeschate makes mark finally
Dutchman Ryan ten Doeschate finally made his mark in the Bangladesh Premier League when he scored a match-winning 95 runs for Chittagong Kings against Khulna Royal Bengals on Thursday. Ten Doeschate, often hailed as Sachin Tendulkar of ICC associate member nations, was getting a start in every game that he played since making his BPL ... Read more
Taylor enjoying BPL
Brendan Taylor said he is enjoying the Bangladesh Premier League as he is among the top run-getters with 249 for the Chittagong Kings after a scintillating start to the campaign. Taylor, captain of the Zimbabwe national side, has struck three fifties so far with a strike rate of 125 and the wicketkeeper-batsman is now second ... Read more
SA batsman Miller joins Kings
South African middle-order batsman David Miller was added to the Chittagong Kings squad on Wednesday to boost the port-city outfit’s hopes of sealing a place in the semi-final. Miller, who has played 18 one-day internationals and 11 Twenty20 matches for South Africa, arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at