A mightier explosion from Junaed Siddiqui eclipsed the one from Phil Mustard as Duronto Rajshahi chased down a formidable total quite comfortably to script a massive 9-wicket victory against Barisal Burners in the BPL T20 at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday. The tournament had been crying out for an innings like Junaed’s as the ... Read more					
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Russell, Sakib sink Gladiators
						Khulna Royal Bengals underlined their credentials as one of the top sides in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League when they handed Dhaka Gladiators a 19-run defeat in their first match on Saturday. West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell grabbed 4-35 to help Khulna restrict Dhaka to 156-7 after his whirlpool 37 off 15 balls lifted the ... Read more					
				Shehzad shines in Burners win
						Chris Gayle failed to reproduce his opening day’s form but Barisal Burners still managed to find a way to beat Duronto Rajshahi by 22 runs in their second match in the Bangladesh Premier League on Saturday. Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad set up the win with his second consecutive fifty leading Burners to 180-2 before Rajshahi ... Read more					
				Spot-fixing not an issue for Mashrafee
						Dhaka Gladiators skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said that he had completely forgotten about the recent spot-fixing issue once he entered the field against Khulna Royal Bengals in the Bangladesh Premier League on Saturday. Mashrafee took Bangladesh cricket by a storm last week when he claimed that he was					
				Mahmud asks Kings not to sleep on laurels
						Chittagong Kings head coach Khaled Mahmud urged his charges not to sleep on their laurels as they will be up against a tough opposition, Khulna Royal Bengals, in their second match of the Bangladesh Premier League on Saturday. The Kings won their first match in the BPL quite comprehensively against Duronto Rajshahi					
				Gayle burns Royals
						Chris Gayle, showed the money spent on him was worth paying, burned Sylhet Royals with a marauding century to steer Barisal Burners to a 10-wicket win in the opening match of the Bangladesh Premier League on Friday. The mercurial West Indian, a $551,000 pick by Burners, hammered 101 off just 44 balls to make the ... Read more					
				‘I will sleep like a baby’
						West Indian Chris Gayle gave the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 tournament a blistering start when he smashed an unbeaten 101 off 44 balls in Barisal Burners’ 10-wicket win over Sylhet Royals in the opening match on Friday. Gayle flew in on Friday morning for the Burners and regardless of being jet-lagged he					
				Gladiators look for winning start
						Dhaka Gladiators will be looking to make a winning start when they face Khulna Royal Bengals in their opening match of the maiden Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. Both the franchises contain former skippers of the national team. The men in orange, Gladiators will be led Mashrafee bin Murtaza alongside ... Read more					
				Dropped catches cost Duronto dear
						Duronto Rajshahi paid the price for missed catches as Chittagong Kings humbled them by 53 runs in their first match of the Bangladesh Premier League in Dhaka on Friday. Duronto dropped at least five catches that allowed Kings to gain some momentum despite a slow start and pile up a mammoth 206-4 in 20 overs ... Read more					
				BCB to probe ‘spot-fixing’ approach
						The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday formed a four-member committee to investigate the alleged spot-fixing approach made to Bangladesh Premier League franchise Dhaka Gladiators captain Masrafee bin Murtaza. BCB senior vice-president Mahbub Anam will head the committee that also included BPL governing council chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain and secretary Sirajuddin Mohammed Alamgir,					
				BPL in a spot of bother
						Mashrafe receives spot-fixing offer The money-spinning Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 is set to kick off today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, but it was the spot-fixing allegation that hogged all the spotlight yesterday, even dwarfing the much hyped opening ceremony. Pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, the captain of the Dhaka Gladiators, has ... Read more					
				BPL T20: The low-down
						The much talked-about Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 will roll into action today. Hopefully all the negative talk surrounding the BCB’s new venture will be swept under the carpet, at least for a while, as the action begins in earnest with the match between Barisal Burners and Sylhet Royals which starts from 2pm at the ... Read more					
				Cricket goes glamorous today
						Many fear launching of BPL will open floodgates Just as Twenty20s have divided cricket followers the world over, there remains similar apprehension on what the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is bringing to the table for the country’s cricket. A rumbustious opening ceremony will kick off proceedings at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today with the ... Read more					
				Bobby turns down BPL job
						The fate of proposed T20 tournament uncertain Bangla-desh Cricket Board vice-president Ahmed Sazzadul Alam Bobby said on Friday that he has declined to take the responsibility of co-ordinator for the proposed Bangladesh Premier League. Bobby’s name was proposed by the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board long ago as the board was eying to host ... Read more					
				