bangladesh cricket

‘Batting will improve if bowling does’

Bangladesh batsmen’s inability to deal with a quality bowling attack like India’s has been much talked about following the Tigers’ meek surrender to the home side in a two-match Test series.
26 November 2019

Tigers in Rajkot with threat of cyclone

Rains triggered by an impending cyclone emanating the Arabian Sea could play spoilsport during the second T20I match between Bangladesh and India in the central Gujarat city of Rajkot on Thursday.
5 November 2019

Tigers set to battle smog and India in first T20I

Bangladesh will have to battle both India and the suffocating New Delhi smog when they take on the hosts in the first game of the three-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium today. The match is scheduled to begin at 7:00pm local time (7:30pm BST).
2 November 2019

Will try my best as captain: Riyad

Bangladesh T20 squad for the India tour, led by Mahmudullah Riyad, departed for India today from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka. The team was scheduled to board the flight at 3:00pm.
30 October 2019

The conversations between Shakib and Agarwal

While Shakib was playing for Dhaka Dynamites in November 2017, he was aware that his phone number had been given to a man named Deepak Aggarwal by an acquaintance. Aggarwal had asked the acquaintance to provide contacts of Bangladesh Premier League players.
29 October 2019

A painful transformation

Over 13 years, the world has probably seen an emotionally distraught Shakib Al Hasan just once – when the ace all-rounder cried his heart out with his teammates after a heart-breaking defeat to Pakistan in the final of the 2012 Asia Cup.
29 October 2019

Stalemate in cricket

There was little indication of recuperation from the turmoil that has engulfed Bangladesh cricket over the past two days following the boycott by cricketers led by Test captain Shakib Al Hasan.
22 October 2019

National cricketers go on strike

National cricketers of Bangladesh, including the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim gathered at the BCB Academy ground in Mirpur to announce that they have gone on a strike and have boycotted from all cricketing activities.
21 October 2019

Saifuddin to be sent abroad for diagnosis

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) chief physician Debashish Chowdhury yesterday informed that the board are thinking of sending all-
4 August 2019

DPL's first-round sparklers

The ongoing Dhaka Premier League (DPL) has reached its business end -- the Super League stage set to begin in a few days' time with
12 April 2019

Tigers seeking return to normalcy

Bangladesh players Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad and Taijul Islam -- witnesses to the horrific and tragic shooting in Christchurch last Friday that left 50 dead -- attended a doa mahfil alongside Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza in Mirpur yesterday.
18 March 2019

Tamim calls it 'frightening experience'; Mushy counts Tigers lucky

Bangladesh batsman Tamim Iqbal described the Christchurch shooting incident as a 'frightening experience' while Mushfiqur Rahim counted themselves as 'lucky' in seperate Facebook posts following the incident
15 March 2019

Hasan promises to fix umpiring

With the new year bringing new hopes, the perennial issue of widespread corruption in lower-level cricket was put to Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan, who assured that the board is going to look into the matter seriously.
2 January 2019

'We can go right to the top'

2018 has been a magnificent year in all formats for Mushfiqur Rahim. His match-winning contributions have emerged as the highlight of Mushfiqur's performance throughout the year, and he was an obvious choice to be declared The Daily Star's Sportsperson of the Year.
31 December 2018

BCB XI win by 51 runs (D/L) after Soumya, Tamim tons

Soumya Sarkar is key as BCB XI's chase of 332 against West Indies nears the business end.
6 December 2018

It’s a lie, says Rubel

There have been some suggestions that the Bangladesh pacers do not want to play home Tests. Pacer Rubel rubbished such noises and said it’s a complete lie.
5 December 2018

'Have found my own way of living'

Sixteen years ago, during a game between Bangladesh Under-15 and the Cricket Association of Bengal at BKSP, a young boy went
19 November 2018

An elephant named Hamilton

The alarming size of the elephant in the room is a reflection of the esteem with which Mahmudullah Riyad is held by the Bangladesh team, the media and the fans. The elephant has a name and a number -- Hamilton 2010. One of Bangladesh cricket's best batsmen, and perhaps its most elegant, has not hit a Test century since his maiden ton in the Hamilton Test against New Zealand in February 2010.
9 November 2018

'My bags are always packed'

Neither Imrul Kayes nor Soumya Sarkar are strangers to last-minute plans -- both were flown to the UAE midway through last month's Asia Cup, with the former hitting a fifty less than 20 hours after landing.
26 October 2018

Performer of The Day: Sizzling Soumya

The best news for Bangladesh from the three ODIs against Zimbabwe came in the last match yesterday in the form of an explosive return
26 October 2018