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Hannan steps down as national selector to focus on coaching

Hannan insisted that he didn’t feel any pressure while working as a national selector since March last year.

Neutral body to aid BPL fixing probe

A Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official yesterday said that the board has decided to form an independent inquiry body to support the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) investigations regarding the alleged match and spot-fixing issues in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).

At least 8 BPL matches under scanner

The Daily Star identified at least two cricketers outside of the official team lists in the players' dugout

League impasse over, but what about reforms?

In the end, what suffered was Bangladesh cricket’s need for decentralisation, which would put a stop to notions that “Dhaka’s club cricket is Bangladesh cricket”.

BCB supports FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia’s international chess journey

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that it will provide financial support for FIDE Master Tahsin Tajwar Zia, son of the late Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman, as he embarks on a series of international chess tournaments.

BCB’s constitution reform committee's activities ‘suspended’

The BPL’s payment issue was also a major topic at the meeting.

Faruque assures players of starting first division league this month

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Faruque Ahmed on Thursday assured Dhaka First Division Cricket League players that the board would start the league this month, promising to hold the tournament without any disturbance.

Who will shoulder blame for players’ sufferings?

Recent tensions between Dhaka-based cricket clubs and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) over proposed constitutional amendments have thrown the future of the league and the livelihoods of many players into uncertainty.

‘Players will die from starvation’

Former Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud, also a former director of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), has seen all the corridors of BCB, club cricket and franchise cricket in the country. Mahmud, who is coaching Dhaka Capitals in what has been a lacklustre campaign in the Bangladesh Premier League so far, gave his insights about the ongoing payment issues in the BPL, the state of his team and their star batter Liton Das, and Dhaka’s club cricket scenario in an interview with The Daily Star’s Abdullah Al Mehdi. The excerpts of the interview are as follows:

May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022

A most mindless ‘mindset’

Right now, the ubiquitous buzzword in our cricket circuit is ‘mindset’. It seems all paths lead to that particular word in discussions about the problems surrounding the Bangladesh men’s national cricket team.

March 2, 2022
March 2, 2022

Rides and tunes on Shakib’s mind

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan returned to Dhaka yesterday morning  alongside the team following a three-match ODI series in Chattogram and refreshingly he was available to reporters and fielded questions after turning up in the afternoon to fulfil a commercial commitment.

April 2, 2019
April 2, 2019

BCB wants extra security for Tigers

Following the Bangladesh team's narrow escape from the horrific Christchurch shooting at Al Noor mosque last month, the Bangladesh

May 13, 2018
May 13, 2018

Fresh U-19s for 2020 World Cup

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will kick-off their preparations for the next ICC Under-19 World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2020 with a fresh batch of teenage cricketers.

April 28, 2018
April 28, 2018

Questions for Mashrafe

Upon returning to Dhaka from a two-day International Cricket Council chief executives committee meeting in Kolkata yesterday,

January 18, 2018
January 18, 2018

BCB regrets spelling Bangladesh wrong on Ban-SL match tickets

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) issues a media release saying that it regrets the spelling error in tri-nation series tickets, where Bangladesh was spelled wrong.

January 18, 2018
January 18, 2018

Zimbabwe upstage Chandika's Lanka

The quality of the match was befitting of an occasion that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) failed to commemorate to the satisfaction

December 9, 2017
December 9, 2017

‘They are confident of playing the next series without a coach’

Bangladesh cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan informs the media that he sat down with the three captains of the Bangladesh cricket team to discuss the issue of coach appointment.

November 10, 2017
November 10, 2017

A home-made crisis

Although contracted till the 2019 World Cup in England, Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha decided midway through the

November 9, 2017
November 9, 2017

Hathurusingha’s Bangladesh future uncertain?

The future of Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha is uncertain after ESPNCricinfo says that he has already handed over his resignation to the BCB.