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Bangladesh on Sunday named opening batsman Tamim Iqbal as captain of the national one-day side, replacing pace bowler Mashrafe Mortaza. Mashrafe stepped down as ODI captain this week after the third and final game of a three-match series against Zimbabwe. He had led the side for more than five years. “The board has unanimously selected Tamim Iqbal as our new ...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday confirmed it had accepted the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) request to reschedule a one-off one-day international (ODI) to allow its team more time to prepare for the second Test between the two sides, which starts on April 5 in Karachi. The ODI, which was originally planned for April 3, will now be held ...

Bangladesh 321 for 6 (Das 126, Mithun 50, Mpofu 2-68) beat Zimbabwe 152 (Madhevere 35, Saifuddin 3-22) by 169 runs Bangladesh stormed to a 169-run win in Sylhet, their largest in ODIs. They rode on a ton from Liton Das and swift cameos from Mohammad Mithun and Mohammad Saifuddin to reach 321 for 6 before Zimbabwe’s chase imploded. Saifuddin did ...

LAHORE: The upcoming tour of Bangladesh cricket team is definitely a major development for the future of Pakistan cricket; Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh said this in a statement on Tuesday. It is pertinent to mention here that Bangladesh cricket team will play three T20 International match at Gaddafi Stadium on January 24, 25 and 27, 2020 while ...

Lahore : Five members of Bangladesh’s coaching staff will not be going to the first leg of Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan later this month. According to BCB’s cricket operations chairman Akram Khan, Neil McKenzie, the white-ball batting coach, is among those who have withdrawn alongside fielding coach Ryan Cook. The BCB preferred not to use Daniel Vettori, who is contracted ...

Mushfiqur Rahim has told Bangladesh chief selector Minhajul Abedin that he will not be travelling to Pakistan for the T20Is that start on January 24. Abedin told news agency AFP: “Mushfiqur rang me today to inform me that he will not go to Pakistan. We are now awaiting his formal letter. Once he does that, we will leave him out ...

Bangladesh’s T20I series in Pakistan may be less than three weeks away, but there is still uncertainty over the tour. The BCB wants to split the tour into two legs – they are happy to play the T20Is first – but the PCB wants to host the series in one go, promising state-level security, like they did when Sri Lanka ...

Despite the tough stance adopted by the PCB on Bangladesh’s unwillingness to play Test cricket in Pakistan, the BCB has reiterated that as things stood, it could only give the go-ahead to a T20I series in the country. In what could be seen as a slight softening of its position on the Tests, though, chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that ...

Lahore:Rohail Nazir’s sparkling century helped Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 77 runs in the final of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday. After being put into bat, the openers Omair Bin Yousuf (4 off 15 balls) and Haider (26 off 23 balls) fell early leaving Pakistan 41 for two in the ...

DUBAI: Stringent anti-corruption measures employed effectively by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) foiled bid by an international fixing syndicate to corrupt the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL). Two bookies belonging to an international fixing syndicate attempted to approach players during the PSL third edition in Dubai via social media websites, but their nefarious designs were foiled by the PCB’s anti-corruption ...