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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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
Kings stutter to semis
Chittagong Kings got the better of their nerve to beat Duronto Rajshahi by four wickets in the crucial eliminator setting up a semi-final contest against Sylhet Royals in the Bangladesh Premier League on Saturday. Chasing a meagre target of 108 runs for victory, Kings looked extremely nervous when they lost five wickets in quick succession, ... Read more
Gayle back to his supreme best
The demon in Chris Gayle is back and back in some style to create a storm in the Bangladesh Premier League that destroyed Sylhet Royals in the race-to-final against Dhaka Gladiators on Friday. In an astonishing display of power-hitting, Gayle rained down 12 sixes to stroke a swashbuckling 114 from 51 balls, which powered the ... Read more
Gladiators in final after winning cliffhanger
Chris Gayle struck a powerful century but Dhaka Gladiators still suffered a scare before reaching their second consecutive final in the Bangladesh Premier League in Dhaka on Friday. The holders beat Sylhet Royals by just four runs in a roller-coaster race-to-final despite Gayle making 114 from 51 balls to power them to 197-9 in their
Duronto, Kings face off in knockout tie
Captaincy remained the focal point for Duronto Rajshahi and Chittagong Kings as they clash with each other in the first eliminator today where the losers will be eliminated from the Bangladesh Premier League. The winner of the tie, meanwhile, will take on Sylhet Royals to determine which team goes through to the all-important final on ... Read more
Heartbreak for Riders as Duronto in last-four
Barisal Burners rode on Hamid Hasan’s raw pace to beat Rangpur Riders by 26 runs in the Bangladesh Premier League at Mirpur, crushing their last-four hopes. The win took Duronto Rajshahi to the last four on head-to-head count as the three teams were level on 10 points after each side completed their 12 league
Gayle, Gazi resume rivalry
Gladiators face Royals in race-to-final, BPL play-off today Dhaka Gladiators’ new recruit Chris Gayle and Sylhet Royals’ off-spinner Sohag Gazi will resume their rivalry once again when the two teams clash with each other in the race-to-final qualifier of the Bangladesh Premier League on Friday. Gayle and Gazi recently faced off in a bilateral series when ... Read more
Kings avoid drama, join last-four
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
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
Crucial phase from today
BPL T20 Crucial phase from today The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will enter its most crucial segment today with just four more days to go before the next round of the competition, officially known as the Race to the Final. The way things stand at the moment, Dhaka Gladiators and Sylhet Royals with 14 points ... Read more
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
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