The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will not be able to hold the players' draft for the next edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) before October, newly appointed BPL Governing Council Chairman Mahbub Anam informed the media on Wednesday.
The decisions came after a marathon six-hour-long meeting by the BCB board of directors.
Syed Ashraful Haque wants to devote his twilight years to the game he loves the most and wants to complete his unfinished works in Bangladesh cricket. Recently, Ashraful talked to The Daily Star’s Samsul Arefin Khan regarding all this and more.
The fate of the Colombo Test and Najmul Hossain Shanto's captaincy was decided yesterday and the outcome in both cases was ill-fated but not unexpected.
Shanto didn’t lash out. He didn’t name names. But his departure is a loud, unmissable protest.
Bangladesh youth and sports advisor Asif Mahmud said on Friday that they are working on the process of amending the constitution of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) but affirmed that for the time being there is no reason to delay the BCB elections scheduled for October.
Ultimately, while it is commendable to honour the legacy of the frontliners, the contributions of those who laid the foundational groundwork 25 years ago should ideally not have been overlooked.
A Test players’ honours board was also unveiled.
“There is no way that Bangladesh cricket, with the present system, can operate at the Test match level in less than 10 years. I give you that and I stand the challenge on that. To push forward will be suicidal as far as our cricket is concerned.”
BCB president Faruque Ahmed expressed his admiration and appreciation for Mushfiqur’s contributions: “Mushfiqur Rahim’s work ethic, resilience, and dogged determination serve as examples that will inspire generations to come. His name will always shine brightly when we speak of Bangladesh's finest ODI moments."
BCB president Faruque Ahmed spoke on diplomatic ties with cricket boards and BCB’s stance on senior players after Bangladesh’s group-stage exit.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Faruque Ahmed said the board can’t take responsibility for the alleged non-payment of Pakistan legend Shahid Afridi.
The board is also working to improve the contracts of players who only play Test cricket.
BCB’s game development works with U-19 and other age-level cricketers, and Bashar said that he always had an interest in working in game development.
Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) cricket operations chairman Nazmul Abedeen Fahim said the country’s veteran duo Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad will have to prove themselves to remain as mainstays of the national team setup.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold the 18th board of directors meeting on Monday with one of the main agendas being the performance of the national team in the ICC Champions Trophy.
Bangladesh’s spin-bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed is close to signing a two-year contract extension with the Tigers. The former Pakistan spin wizard left to be with his family in Lahore after Bangladesh’s final ICC Champions Trophy group-stage fixture got washed out in Rawalpindi but had a chat with The Daily Star’s Samsul Arefin Khan about Bangladesh’s disappointing campaign in the global event and some of the factors that contributed to it. The excerpts are as follows:
Bangladesh selector Abdur Razzak has called the Tigers’ five-wicket collapse against India in an ICC Champions Trophy group-stage fixture “an accident” and assured that such a calamity wouldn’t take place in the next match against New Zealand.
While the national men’s team was having a torrid time in the UAE, getting thrashed by Pakistan Shaheens in a Champions Trophy warm-up, things were not much better back home.
