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
Imrul dazzles to level series
Opener Imrul Kayes continued his good form with a scintillating half-century as Bangladesh A shared the honours in the T20 series against the visiting England Lions with an 11-run victory in the second and final game at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. Riding on Imrul’s 62, the home side posted 166 for six ... Read more
Good and bad news for BPL
Icons get $210k It was a mixed day for the Bangladesh Premier League as an international cricketer turned down the chance to play the competition’s inaugural season. At the same time, the proposed link with a major television channel could boost the Twenty20 tournament. West Indies captain Darren Sammy has put his own country’s domestic ... Read more
Bangladesh A up 2-1
Bangladesh A regained the lead in the five-match series after they defeated England Lions by 75 runs in the third one-dayer at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong yesterday. The victory ensured a 2-1 lead for the home side with two games to play in Sylhet on January 16 and 18 respectively. It was ... Read more
Chittagong priciest at $1.2m
The six franchises of the Bangladesh Premier League were sold off in a trice. In the hour-long bidding programme held at a local hotel in the city yesterday, only one franchise was sold at a significantly higher price than the base price while the others barely got off the ground. The absence of big corporate ... Read more
Mash’s wait almost over
If you want to know how painful it is for a cricketer to be a mere spectator for almost an entire year, you can ask pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mortaza. It has never been a smooth journey for the ‘Narail Express’ because of persistent injuries since his international debut in November 2001 against Zimbabwe. The ... Read more
First-class not BCB’s first priority?
Friday’s cancellation of the National Cricket League matches is just the tip of the iceberg in Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) continuous disregard for the first-class game. During the first part of the 2011-12 season, the BCB scheduled the NCL into two parts (split by the Eid-ul-Fitr break in mid-November), both of which had domestic international ... Read more
Shakib, a cut above
It was always going to take a very special cricketer to replace a man of Jacques Kallis’s stature. The South African is already regarded as a legend of the game with his unparalleled record with the bat and ball in all formats. By sheer number, Kallis has defeated competition for his throne and has kept ... Read more