Bangladesh are slated to play 16 T20Is against the UAE, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India ahead of the 2025 Asia Cup. An additional six matches against the West Indies and Ireland will follow. With a packed T20 calendar and Shanto’s declining performances in the format, his inclusion in the squad becomes increasingly difficult to justify.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday issued a clarification on some financial transactions done since the change in leadership, claiming these transactions were done to ‘strengthen’ the safety of BCB’s funds to safeguard the organisation from ‘vested quarters’.
The circus surrounding the way the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) handled the suspension episode of Mohammedan captain Towhid Hridoy gathered further wind on Friday.
There are so many incidents happening in tandem around Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) that sometimes issues get swept under the rug without coming into notice.
Exasperated sighs, brooding stares, and hands on hips were perhaps the common responses as people tuned into the state-run BTV channel late afternoon on Sunday.
Every year, the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) begins with unwavering commitments from authorities to make it even more competitive than the previous years.
Shakib Al Hasan has successfully overturned his bowling ban and is once again allowed to bowl in competitive cricket, however, the uncertainties surrounding his international future are still very much present.
The latest episode of Pitch Perfect brings you an in-depth discussion of the disappointing plight of the BPL and its future.
This will be the first time in 18 years that Bangladesh will play in an ICC event without both Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan
It appears that Bangladesh Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan and Liton Das will not be allowed to skip the upcoming Ireland Test from April 04, as far as Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan Papon is concerned, after the two star cricketers applied for a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the BCB in order to be present from the beginning of the Indian Premier League (IPL), slated to begin on March 31.
BCB cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus confirmed the news to the media as the two cricketers are willing to take a leave from the only Test against Ireland scheduled on April 4 in Mirpur.
Ahead of the two white-ball series against England, all the noise in the media related to the captains of the two respective formats, ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal and T20I counterpart Shakib Al Hasan, not being on talking terms.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon visited the Tigers' team hotel in the capital on Thursday at Shakib Al Hasan's request but could not meet the star all-rounder, who was reportedly busy fulfilling a commercial commitment elsewhere.
Previously, a lot of rumours surrounding the issue circulated, especially from outside the team management
The 54-year-old touched down at 10:36 pm and will start Tigers' training camp on Tuesday.
The pessimism heading into the World Cup is justified.
India will tour Bangladesh in December for the first time since 2015 to play two Tests and three one-day internationals, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Thursday.
Bangladesh all-rounder Mehedi Hasan Miraz said that he is enjoying his new role as an opener and that he is looking forward to putting in more valuable performances in the coming days.
Although the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) had held an AGM to pave the way for the formation of Regional Cricket Associations (RCAs), the board had to seek approval from the National Sports Council in order to finally amend its constitution.
