Delegation of former captains of national cricket team and Bangladesh Cricket Board warmly greeted the first Bangladeshi president of ICC and Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal at his ministry office at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Tuesday.Talking to the cricket delegation, the ICC President stressed the need for introducing an appropriate calendar for cricket, saying: “To attract more sponsorship, there’s no other alternative but to fixing an appropriate calendar.”He further said the development of Bangladesh cricket will be hampered if separate systems...
New Zealand wrapped up a 66-run victory over Somerset in their opening tour match despite an entertaining final-day hundred from James Hildreth.Hildreth advanced from his overnight 62 to score 115 and lower order runs from Craig Overton (25) and Tim Groenewald (47) briefly raised hopes of an upset.But off-spinner Mark Craig took the last three wickets to finish with 5-34 in Somerset’s 277 all out.New Zealand play England in two Tests later in May.Somerset, who began the final day on...
Touring Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) High Performance (HP) team maintained all-win record in Australia beating Northern Territory Invitational Eleven by nine wickets in the 4th match to take a 4-0 lead in the five-match one day series at the Marrara Cricket Ground (MCG) 1 in Darwin on Sunday.Bangladesh HP Squad made a good start beating Northern Territory Invitational Eleven by one wicket in the first match, beat the same team by 70 runs in the 2nd match and earned the...
Agency :Emotional New Zealand completed an innings and 80-run win over Pakistan in the third and final Test in Sharjah...
UNB, Sylhet :Nepla reached the quarterfinal of the 11th ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup crushing Ireland by eight-wicket at Khan...
Touring Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket team reached the final Tri-Nation Under-19 One-Day Cricket Tournament eliminating all-losers Afghanistan by eight wickets with 153 balls remaining in their 4th match at the Jadavpur University Complex in Kolkata on Wednesday.Bangladesh will play hosts India in the final on Sunday while India will play all-losers Afghanistan in the last league match on Friday.Bangladesh youth team made a frustrating start after suffering a 82-run defeat against hosts India in the double-league basis competition last Saturday and...
Bangladesh National Football Team, now undergoing training in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will fly for Amman on Tuesday morning to play their last Group-B match of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against Jordan National Team in Amman on March 24.The Bangladesh football team finished their training session at the UAE FA field in Dubai after practising from 10:30 am to 12 noon on the last day on Monday.The weather in Dubai on Monday was around 30-32 degree Celsius and...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) chief selector Minhajul Abedin Nannu to serve as the team manager of the Tigers for the tour of South Africa (SA).BCB assigned Nannu as team manager as Khaled Mahmud Sujon expressed unwillingness to serve showing personal reason.“I’ll be in the role of team manager, BCB has decided, as Sujon could not go,” Nannu said to reporters in Miprur on Thursday.The Tigers are expected to leave for South Africa on Saturday (Sept 16) to play...
AFP, Karachi :Dashing Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi announced Sunday he would retire from one-day cricket after next year’s World Cup...
Agency, New Delhi :Justice RM Lodha (retired), who gave a landmark verdict in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing and betting scandal, said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will decide what to do with the franchises which have been suspended for two years.Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals were on Tuesday suspended from the IPL for two years by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee in the scandal that rocked the cash-rich Twenty20...
AFP, Adelaide :Cricket Australia said Tuesday they will schedule more day-night Test matches following the overwhelming success of the recent trial against New Zealand staged under lights in Adelaide.A total attendance of 123,736 fans over three days at Adelaide Oval along with 3.19 million prime-time viewers watching free-to-air television coverage on Sunday’s final day confirmed the strong acceptance of the day-night Test played with a pink ball, CA chief executive James Sutherland said....