DHAKA: Visiting Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bowl in the first One-Day International (ODI) at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in the city on Saturday.The limited-overs day-night match began at 1:00am with openers Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das. Kamrul Islam Rabbi has to wait for his

DHAKA: Visiting Zimbabwe is set to face confident Bangladesh in the first One-Day International (ODI) at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in the city on Saturday.The limited-overs day-night match will start at 1:00am (local time).  The hosts go into the series full of confidence having already

DHAKA: India on Thursday announced a list of 20 probables for its Under-19 team that will play a tri-series against Bangladesh and Afghanistan in this month.Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s Junior National Selection Committee met earlier in the day to select the probables,

DHAKA: Tigers captain (ODI and T20) Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has expressed his hope that the team will be able to win against visiting Zimbabwe if they could continue their performances of the matches during World Cup 2015.Mashrafe was holding a press conference at a city hotel on Friday

DHAKA: Former Bangladeshi captain Khaled Mahmud Sujon, in an exclusive interview with the cricketcountry.com, expressed his perplexity at Australia's pulling out of their scheduled tour.One of the highlights of the year 2015 so far has been the dramatic rise of the Bangladesh cricket team

Mashrafee led tiger squad would launch a fresh encounter will lowly Zimbabwe which just lost ODI and T20 series against emerging Afghanistan at home.  Bangladesh was due to play tests against Australia but that series was postponed initially and deferred later in excuse of security

DHAKA: Visiting Zimbabweans beat Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) by seven wickets in the only tour match at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah of Narayanganj on Thursday.Chasing 278-run target, Elton Chigumbura with 64 run off 49 balls and Craig Ervine with 95 runs off 99 balls lead

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)-XI scored a fighting 277-run losing eight wickets against the visiting Zimbabweans in the only tour match at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah of Narayanganj on Thursday.Bangladesh openers Imrul Kayes and Anamul Haque provided a solid opening

DHAKA: Mohammad Mithun top-scored for the second time in as many games as Bangladesh A clinched the one-day series against Zimbabwe A with a 36-run win in the second match in Harare.According to espncricinfo.com, Zimbabwe A scored 246 runs for 9 in 50 overs with Chari 69 and Mutombodzi 57

DHAKA: The Zimbabwe Cricket Team has arrived in Dhaka on Monday afternoon to play three One Day Internationals (ODI) and two T20 matches.A jet of Emirates Airlines carrying the visitors landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city around 5:08pm.During the tour, Zimbabwe will

DHAKA: The Zimbabwe Cricket Team is set to arrive in Dhaka on Monday afternoon to play three One Day Internationals (ODI) and two T20 matches.The squad is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:30pm, said BGB sources.During the tour, Zimbabwe will play a

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the 14-men Bangladesh squad for first two ODIs of the three-match series against Zimbabwe, recalling pacer Al-Amin Hossain and naming uncapped bowler Kamrul Islam.  Kamrul, who replaced the injured Taskin Ahmed during last month's A

DHAKA: Zimbabwe cricket have named a 16-man squad to travel to Bangladesh to play a series of three One Day Internationals and two T20s starting from November 7. Leg spinner Graeme Cremer and wicket keeper batsman Regis Chakabva have been handed recalls to the team, and Elton Chigumbura

DHAKA: New Zealand made sporting history at Twickenham in England, as they became the first team to be crowned Rugby World Cup winners for a second successive time.Tries in each half by wing Nehe Milner-Skudder and centre Ma'a Nonu, followed by a late Beauden Barrett breakaway score, plus

DHAKA: Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) were unmoved by FFA's request to switch  November 17 duel in Dhaka to the UAE, amid security concerns after bomb attack last weekend which killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded scores of others.Last month an Italian aid

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced a cash reward of Tk 1 lakh for each player of Chittagong Abahani for winning the title of Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup tournament-2015. Chittagong Abahani beat East Bengal F.C. of Kolkata by 3-1 goals in the final of the first edition

CHITTAGONG: Recovering from 0-1, Chittagong Abahani beat East Bengal F.C. of Kolkata by 3-1 goals in the final of the first edition of Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup-2015 at M A Aziz Stadium in the port city.Eleta Kingslay’s double and one goal by Hemanta Vincent Biswas was enough

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DHAKA: Waqar Younis, the Pakistan coach, has criticised the inconsistency of the Decision Review System (DRS), and believes that the margin of doubt for Umpire's Call should be increased from 50 percent to 75 percent.The current set-up, he says, is allowing match officials to be

DHAKA: Bangladesh, for the third consecutive time, will organize the Asia Cup 2016.Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan Papon disclosed the matter to journalists at Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday night.He further said the decision was taken at a meeting of