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BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said the board is investigating Barisal Bulls’ decision not to field Chris Gayle in the BPL’s second qualifier on December 13, but did not elaborate on the matter when pressed further

Mohammad Isam20-Dec-2015

Eliminator toss ‘not a major issue’

On Tamim Iqbal’s allegations of abuse against the Sylhet team owner
“The disciplinary committee has prepared the initial report. It will be placed in the next board meeting. If there are any recommendations in the report, the board will take the appropriate decision.”
On match referee Raqibul Hasan’s coin-picking incident from the Eliminator match
“We couldn’t find [a rule or law] anywhere about how the toss is to be declared by the match referee, whether he should declare it while the coin is on the ground or after he picks it. In 70-80% of the BPL matches, we have seen a similar way of doing the toss. It is a big problem, and we don’t know what the rule is in this regard.
“We are not seeing it as a major issue because the two captains [Kumar Sangakkara and Mahmudullah] and the commentator [Alistair Campbell] didn’t raise any complaints. Neither did it happen in the other matches. We will have to ensure though that this doesn’t happen in the future.”
On Tillekaratne Dilshan tripping Imrul Kayes
“He [Dilshan] was fined Tk 20,000 [$256] after the incident.”

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said the board is investigating Barisal Bulls’ decision not to field Chris Gayle in the BPL’s second qualifier on December 13, but did not elaborate on the matter when pressed further.The Barisal management informed at the time that Gayle had complained of back pain on the morning of the game. The BPL was Gayle’s comeback tournament since undergoing back surgery.During the press conference in Mirpur on Sunday, Hassan was asked if the BCB had received any information or complaints regarding specific allegations of corruption in the BPL. He said the board had not received any, but added that they were looking into the Gayle issue.”One could hold suspicion about certain matches from the BPL’s first two seasons,” Hassan said. “But none of that caught our attention this time. Our local ACSU team, who worked during the BPL, didn’t inform us of anything, but it is a continuous process.”At the same time, there is one issue which they are already working on. It is about Chris Gayle’s [non] appearance in the semifinal [Qualifier]. There is some discussion about it. We are looking into it. I am not saying there was anything untoward but we are investigating the matter.”When asked to explain the Gayle issue further, Hassan said it would not be wise to discuss the matter without any specific complaint.When contacted, the Barisal franchise co-owner Rizwan bin Farouk said the team was not going to force Gayle into playing a game with a back injury.”If the player is injured, he can’t play. You can’t force him to play. He has had an operation. When he called the doctor, he was told to go back immediately,” Farouk told ESPNcricinfo, adding that the franchise’s contract with Gayle was for him to play “four to five matches” during the BPL season.Gayle played four games, scoring 139 runs including an unbeaten 92 against Chittagong Vikings on December 9. During his stay for Barisal, he was also left out of the December 10 match against Dhaka Dynamites.BPL governing council chairman Afzalur Rahman Sinha was quoted as telling the Bengali daily during the Barisal-Rangpur qualifier that the council had learned of Gayle’s unavailability just before the game. He said the council would investigate the Barisal franchise’s decision not to pick Gayle.”We have to examine if there was any other motive in this regard,” Sinha told . “We have to find out why Gayle wasn’t played. We will investigate the matter after the tournament. They could have let us know earlier. The BCB physio and doctors could have looked after the problem. But they didn’t tell us.”We heard that he won’t be playing a little while before the match began, and that he will be leaving [the country]. If he had an injury, he wouldn’t be able to field the full game yesterday [December 12]. It would have been revealed in the field.”The BCB and the BPL’s governing council and technical committee, however, do not have the jurisdiction in the composition of a team’s playing XI, according to the BPL’s rules and playing conditions.At the toss of the same game, Barisal captain Mahmudullah said Gayle was going to join his BBL team in Australia and was hence unavailable. Their manager told the media that Gayle had notified the franchise of his back pain on the morning of the match. “He informed us this morning that he has back pain, which is why he can’t play today. Because he just returned from injury, we didn’t force him. Gayle wants to have treatment of his back pain in Australia,” Barisal manager Saidul Islam was quoted as saying by .In the post-match press conference Sabbir Rahman said the Barisal team had known of Gayle’s unavailability earlier. “After our last match, we heard that Gayle wouldn’t be playing this game,” he said.

The BCB could hold back Mustafizur Rahman from playing in the forthcoming PSL

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Jan-2016The BCB could hold back Mustafizur Rahman from playing in the forthcoming PSL. While the board has mentioned Mustafizur’s workload as the major worry, ESPNcricinfo has learned there is also concern within the Bangladesh team management of overexposing the left-arm pace bowler too soon.Mustafizur was picked up by the Lahore Qalandars franchise for $50,000 for Pakistan’s domestic T20 tournament to be held in the UAE from February 4. It is understood that there have been discussions within the BCB over compensating Mustafizur if he misses the tournament, thought it is not yet confirmed whether he will be stopped from playing in it.The BCB’s chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said the board would take the advice of their doctors before taking a decision on Mustafizur, considering Bangladesh’s busy schedule, which includes the Asia Cup T20 in Dhaka from February 24 and the World T20 in India from March 9. Before the PSL, Bangladesh are also scheduled to play four T20s against Zimbabwe from January 15 to 22.”Basically we will take the observation of our physician before giving him the NOC,” Chowdhury told the Dhaka-based . “He [Mustafizur] is a young prospect, so we don’t want to take any risk with him. We must consider his age and see whether he can take the load as there are other T20 assignments coming up after the PSL.”There is also talk that playing in the PSL would mean Pakistan’s players gaining a familiarity with Mustafizur’s bowling and his variations, which have been a significant factor in his early success, before they meet Bangladesh in the Asia Cup and potentially in the World T20.Mustafizur, who in 2015 became the first Bangladesh cricketer to feature in the ICC’s ODI team of the year, is among four Bangladesh players picked in the PSL’s draft, alongside Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim.

West Indies Under-19s ended up stunning over 10,000 fans at the Shere Bangla Stadium by chasing down 227, with three wickets in hand, in an anxious fashion against Bangladesh Under-19s

The Report by Vishal Dikshit in Mirpur11-Feb-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsShamar Springer had plenty to dance about after an incisive spell with the ball and a match-winning unbeaten 62•Getty Images

West Indies Under-19s ended up stunning over 10,000 fans at the Shere Bangla Stadium by chasing down 227, with three wickets in hand, in an anxious fashion against Bangladesh Under-19s in the semi-final of the Under-19 World Cup. West Indies were cruising at 147 for 3 and seemed to be buckle under pressure after captain Shimron Hetmyer fell for 60. They lost two more wickets for 34 runs but were salvaged by Shamar Springer’s unbeaten 62 after his incisive spell of 10-0-36-2. West Indies will make their second appearance in an Under-19 World Cup final when they take on India Under-19s in Mirpur on Sunday.The West Indies chase started in the usual aggressive mode when Gidron Pope clobbered 14 runs in the first over. He continued to attack and was dropped on 23 in the fourth over before he took his team to an intimidating 56 for 2 in seven overs. After Pope fell for 38, Hetmyer led the charge just like his counterpart Mehedi Hasan Miraz had done earlier in the day, with a measured knock in the company of Keacy Carty. The required run rate was just under four when they got together and they carried out their partnership of 62 in composed fashion.They had no difficulty playing the spinners and Hetmyer brought up his second straight fifty but his dismissal in the 28th over threatened to tilt the game the other way. Springer was joined by Jyd Goolie and with no scoreboard pressure to face, they took the score past 175 until left-arm spinner Saleh Ahmed Shawon struck twice in four balls and West Indies were still 46 adrift with four wickets in hand.Springer was still there, and he and Michael Frew ran well to steal ones and twos in a patient stand of 36 in 8.2 overs. Bangladesh struck again when Mohammad Saifuddin removed Frew for 12 but Springer’s presence saw them through as he hit the winning runs with eight balls to spare.Bangladesh showed signs of nervousness too. They dropped Springer when he was on 15, fumbled when they shouldn’t have and conceded overthrows when the match was in the balance, possibly feeling the pressure of playing in front of a massive crowd that had gathered in Mirpur.Earlier, Mehedi had to rescue his team again from a precarious position, just like he had done in the quarter-final against Nepal Under-19s. He forged an 85-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Mohammed Saifuddin, lifting the side from 113 for 5 to close to 200.West Indies’ opening bowlers, Alzarri Joseph and Chemar Holder, started poorly after the hosts opted to bat. They conceded nine extras out of the total of 10 in the first two overs but later succeeded in removing the openers by the seventh over. They continued their barrage of short deliveries with varying lines, while Bangladesh found the odd boundary.Just when Bangladesh were looking to lift the run rate after the first Powerplay, they lost Nazmul Hossain Shanto, their best batsman in the tournament so far, for 11 and medium-pacers Ryan John and Springer then choked the flow of runs. Joyraz Sheik, who was dropped off a tough chance on 6, led them on even as Zakir Hasan struggled to rotate the strike. Sheik, however, dragged one onto his off stump and Zakir was bowled once Holder was brought back for his second spell.Mehedi eased the flow of runs and pulled his team out of trouble once the spinners Jyd Goolie, Pope and Frew came on, relying on plenty of back-foot strokes. Once the hosts looked comfortable, the spinners sent down more loose deliveries and the fielders started to misfield, too.Saifuddin played a more patient role in the partnership with Mehedi and was content giving strike to the captain, who brought up his fifty off 63 balls. Their comfort ended in the 45th over. Pacer Keemo Paul, who had injured himself while fielding earlier, came on in the 46th over and struck off consecutive deliveries to remove both set batsmen and hurt Bangladesh’s chances of a total close to 240. Springer was economical in the slog overs, too, and a couple of fours and a six from the tail pushed Bangladesh past 220. They were dismissed for 226 off the last ball of the innings.

After they ran into early trouble, Sabbir Rahman scored more than half of Bangladesh’s runs. Their bowlers followed it up by squeezing Sri Lanka in the 148-run chase, eventually picking up their second win in the Asia Cup by 23 runs

The Report by Mohammad Isam in Mirpur28-Feb-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details1:50

Bangladesh complete historic win

After they ran into early trouble, Sabbir Rahman scored more than half of Bangladesh’s runs. Their bowlers followed it up by squeezing Sri Lanka in the 148 chase, eventually picking up their second win in the Asia Cup by 23 runs.A packed crowd at the Shere Bangla National Stadium was kept on the edge for three and a half hours, mainly by Man-of-the-Match Sabbir’s superb and clean hitting that gave him ten fours and three sixes. The home side’s tight bowling and rapid fielding across the outfield stood out too.The loss would, however, ring loud alarm bells for Sri Lanka, especially after how they missed out on taking advantage of the home side slipping to 26 for 3, and later being unable to hit any boundaries for four and seven-over clumps. This was the first time Sri Lanka were beaten by Bangladesh in a T20.On a pitch devoid of any grass, Bangladesh had to defend what Shakib Al Hasan called a “par score” in the innings break. But Shakib and Mustafizur Rahman bowled eight overs between them for just 40 runs, taking three wickets. Al-Amin Hossain finished with 3 for 34.But Bangladesh’s defence had not started well. Like he did in the previous match, Soumya Sarkar dropped a catch at slip in the first over, off Taskin Ahmed, this time the lucky batsman being Dinesh Chandimal who had not scored a run. Tillakaratne Dilshan too was dropped, though the chance at wide first slip in the second over was quite hard for a diving Mahmudullah.But Dilshan was removed in the fourth over with Sarkar making up for his drop with a brilliant catch running back about 30 yards from mid-off, diving full length and landing safely with the ball. Chandimal and Shehan Jayasuriya then added 56 runs for the second wicket though, like Bangladesh, they went through exactly four overs without a boundary.Jayasuriya broke that duck with a six in the 11th over but Chandimal holed out in the same over after making a run-a-ball 37 after mainly trying reverse hits in the last few balls he faced. Shakib quickly removed Jayasuriya in the next over, for a 21-ball 26 after missing a wide delivery to get stumped by Nurul Hasan.Sabbir Rahman made a career-best 80 in T20 internationals•Associated Press

Bangladesh’s biggest fear factor was Thisara Perera because of his performance in 2014 but today he was lackluster, falling leg-before to Mustafizur and Sri Lanka soon slipped to 92 for 5 in the 15th over.Angelo Mathews swung and missed plenty during his 20-ball 12 before he was well caught at point by Shakib running back a fair way. In the 18th over, with 46 still required, Dasun Shanaka finaly struck one sweetly, breaking the seven-over boundary drought. Al-Amin conceded nine runs in the over and Sri Lanka were still 37 adrift from their target with two overs to go.Mustafizur gave away just five runs in the penultimate over before Al-Amin took two wickets in the last over to seal the win.Earlier, Sabbir’s hitting spree began in the fourth over when he took three fours and a six off Nuwan Kulasekara to kick-start Bangladesh’s innings that saw the openers Mohammad Mithun and Sarkar return for ducks within the first nine balls.In the fifth over, however, Sabbir got into a mix-up with Mushfiqur Rahim resulting in the latter’s run-out. But Sabbir responded brilliantly, taking three fours off Perera in the next over. With Shakib, Sabbir took to building the innings and the pair went through 4.1 overs without a boundary.Sabbir broke the shackles in the 13th over with a well-timed six over midwicket which also brought up his fifty off 38 balls. Jayasuriya conceded 17 in the over, with Sabbir hitting two fours right after the six. He cracked Dushmantha Chameera’s first ball through the covers and added another four in the next over, off Rangana Herath. Sabbir struck his third six before getting out, trying to repeat the hit through midwicket, but was caught for 80 off 54 balls. At that point, he had scored just over 74 per cent of Bangladesh’s 108 runs.Shakib, who had till now struggled to time several balls, and Mahmudullah kept the momentum going with three fours in the next seven balls before Shakib was caught behind miscuing a bouncer in the 18th over. Mahmudullah, who has turned into Bangladesh’s finisher in this Asia Cup, pulled a four followed by a six straight over the bowler’s head in his unbeaten 12-ball 23, to give them the much-needed final thrust.Chameera took 3 for 30 but Kulasekara gave away 44 runs in four overs. It was quite surprising to see Mathews not bowling his fourth over after he had given away just eight runs in his first three. Herath was economical but didn’t take a wicket in his four overs.

Many from New Zealand’s squad have played very little T20 cricket in India, while the hosts are on auto-pilot in the shortest format

The Preview by Alagappan Muthu14-Mar-2016

Match facts

Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Start time 1930 local (1400 GMT)Martin Guptill will need to mind the pace of the Indian pitches first before sending balls into the sky•AFP

Big picture

The tournament proper is upon us. Its name – Super 10s – says big billing. Its first match caters to the same. India are the heavyweights. New Zealand are the heartthrobs. Considering the World T20 began with fingers dangled at the organisers for their ticketing strategy and the collective anger of the Associates over an unforgiving qualifying round, a blockbuster match between two Full Members at a jam-packed Jamtha cannot arrive sooner.A slice of the hype went missing last December when Brendon McCullum announced his retirement from international cricket. In his stead comes Colin Munro, who has hit the most sixes in a first-class innings and struck New Zealand’s fastest T20 fifty. With Munro, though, comes an asterisk. He has batted only five times in India. Munro managed 19 and 6 for Auckland in the Champions League T20 in 2011 and later made 1,4,1 for New Zealand A against India A in 2013.Very few from New Zealand’s squad have played T20 cricket in Indian conditions. Thirteen of them have played less than 15 games in the country, and the man with the most experience – Ross Taylor, with 46 matches – is coming back after injury.India, on the other hand, have gone on record to say they are on “auto-pilot” in the shortest format thanks to the exposure from the IPL. Their top order is perhaps the strongest in the tournament and you would think with Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya lower down, there is enough of a failsafe should things go wrong. It has worked so far. India have won 10 out of 11 T20I matches since the start of the year.

Form guide

India: WWWWW (last five completed matches)
New Zealand: WWLWW

Watch out for

Martin Guptill‘s recent white-ball exploits include a double-hundred at the 50-over World Cup and fifty off 19 balls in a T20I. It is perceived that the slow, turning tracks in India may dilute his menace. He doesn’t lack for power – he has a reputation for hitting some monstrous sixes down the ground – but Guptill will need to mind the pace of the pitches first before sending balls into the sky.He’s been rated as a proper batsman, but the highest Yuvraj can bat is at No. 5. He had coped reasonably well on seamer-friendly pitches in Bangladesh and if the time he’s spent at the crease has revived his confidence – and he had said it has – that’s another match-winner in an already powerful batting line-up.

Team news

The only reason there may be a change made to India’s Asia Cup-winning XI is if Mohammed Shami has impressed the management enough to squeeze in ahead of Ashish Nehra.India (probable) 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Yuvraj Singh, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 MS Dhoni (capt and wk), 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Ashish Nehra/Mohammed ShamiNew Zealand might need to pick between Mitchell Santner and Nathan McCullum as the lead spinner. The other toss up might be between Mitchell McClenaghan, who has been part of an IPL-winning Mumbai Indians team, and Adam Milne.New Zealand (probable) 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 Colin Munro, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Corey Anderson, 6 Grant Elliott, 7 Luke Ronchi (wk), 8 Mitchell Santner/ Nathan McCullum, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Mitchell McClenaghan/ Adan Milne

Pitch and conditions

Rain probably doesn’t strike twice in Nagpur, but it was overcast on the eve of the match and the forecast is said to be partly cloudy on Tuesday. The surfaces in use for the qualifiers here have been dry. Balls have stopped on the batsman a bit – even offcutters from the seam bowlers.

Stats and trivia

• New Zealand have played only one T20I in India – they won it by one run in Chennai in 2012
• It appears India’s bogey team in T20Is is New Zealand – four matches, four losses.

Quotes

“I suppose whatever build-up that you have, it doesn’t promise success. I think in the international game, it is important that you get your head around changing formats consistently.”
.”They have not paid that much attention to who is in the opposition, who I am bowling to or batting against. They have backed their skills, which they also do in the IPL, and that has been an X-factor for our team in the last few series.”
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A round-up of the Dhaka Premier League matches on May 2, 2016

Mohammad Isam02-May-2016Anamul Haque’s first List-A century in 16 months helped Gazi Group Cricketers crush Cricket Coaching School by six wickets in a battle between two newly-promoted sides in the Dhaka Premier League.Chasing 177, Gazi Group rode on Anamul’s ton to reach the target in 33.4 overs in Mirpur. It was the third consecutive defeat for CCS while Gazi Group picked up their second win in three games.Anamul struck four fours and seven sixes in his 85-ball 100. He added 139 for the third wicket with Farhad Hossain, who chipped in with 45 off 75 balls. Mohammad Saifuddin took 3 for 26 in 7.4 overs.Earlier, CCS were bowled out for 176 in 47 overs after being asked to bat. Salman Hossain and Uttam Sarkar made fifties, but only two other batsmen – opener Amit Majumder and No 10. Nasum Ahmed – reached double figures. Right-arm medium pacer Mohammad Sharif and offspinner Mahedi Hasan took two wickets each.Victoria Sporting Club picked up their second win in the Dhaka Premier League after beating Kalabagan Cricket Academy by five wickets at the BKSP-3 ground. KCA slumped to their third successive loss.Batting first, KCA posted 263 for 6 with Irfan Sukkur hitting seven fours in his 116-ball 88, while Mehedi Hasan Miraz contributed with 51 off 44 balls.VSC reached the target with eleven balls to spare, thanks to fifties from Abdul Mazid and Al-Amin before captain Nadif Chowdhury steered his side to the target with an unbeaten 29. Abu Jayed took three wickets.The game between Legends of Rupganj and Mohammedan Sporting Club was pushed to the reserve day due to a wet outfield.

In an age of T20 specialism, Sam Robson is proving that there can be another way, with his latest half-century guiding Middlesex’s response to 376

Tim Wigmore at Lord's23-May-2016
ScorecardSam Robson showed off his old-fashioned qualities once again•Getty Images

No Middlesex supporter would have been surprised by Chris Rogers’ century on the opening day. In recent years runs for Rogers at Lord’s, whether wearing a Middlesex helmet or an Australia one, have been a constant. This time, though, his contribution came against Middlesex rather than for them.When he partnered Sam Robson at the top of the order for Middlesex, the club had a claim to having the pre-eminent opening pair in the land. Yet even with Rogers departed, Middlesex’s top-order strength remains.Robson is amiable off the field and unobtrusive on it. He has a small selection of shots – the extra cover drive, the cut, and the languid flick to leg of anything straight – which he hones relentlessly, always remembering that it is on stolid defence that all else is built. To see Robson at Lord’s is to be transported to an age in which there exists no one like Brendon McCullum, his soon-to-be team-mate. Not that the two are likely to be on the field together for Middlesex: it has been a full five years since Robson played the last of his four T20s innings.In an age of T20 specialism, Robson is proving that there can be another way. You could call it last-mover advantage: while all else try to move to the T20 beat, Robson is left as the vinyl record in a digital age. Just as vinyls are thriving for their nostalgic quality, so the same is true of Robson’s batting. At one point in this innings, as Somerset suffered for drifting on to his pads too often, Robson had 40 from only 43 balls. As if horrified that he threatened to lose the essence of himself, Robson then took another 87 balls over his next 27 runs.During County Championship matches, Lord’s has rapidly taken on the look of being Robson’s private fiefdom. So far in 2015, Robson has 518 runs here at a cool average of 259, and needs only another 33 runs on Tuesday to record his fourth consecutive Championship century here.The only difference between this innings and those three previous ones is that Robson did offer chances: on 53, he was dropped at point by Peter Trego off Tim Gronewald; on 56, he was spilled by Marcus Trescothick at second slip after Craig Overton got a ball to bounce and move late. Those two mishaps apart, Rogers would doubtless have preferred batting with Robson to coming up with a way for his attack to dismiss him.Not that Robson’s opening partner looked any more vulnerable. Nick Gubbins has been the chief beneficiary of Rogers’ departure from Middlesex, which opened up a vacancy alongside Robson that he has made his own.Gubbins regards himself as a three-format cricketer, and has a promising white-ball record to back up his belief. If his first-class statistics do not yet reflect his talents, Gubbins is rapidly changing that: this was his fourth fifty of the Championship summer. Having squandered the chance of a maiden century at The Oval last week, tamely chipping a ball to mid-off after making 91 excellent runs, Gubbins had no intention of repeating that here. After playing out a maiden from the final over of the day, he remained locked in defensive poise for a good ten seconds, envisaging how to reach that first century.The assurance with which Middlesex’s openers batted only served to highlight the skill with which Tim Murtagh bowled in the morning. This was an archetypal Murtagh performance, an exhibition in artful seam bowling with the second new ball. The ball was pitched up, kissed the surface and moved just enough to entice an edge from the batsman – as it did twice in the day’s third over, accounting for Rogers and Jim Allenby – or to trap them on the crease, as it did James Hildreth two overs later.It was a wonderful distillation of the qualities that have brought Murtagh 530 Middlesex wickets at 25.31 apiece. This was his 24th five-for since leaving Surrey to head north of the Thames: given the benign wicket and scant cloud cover, few have been more admirable. Even with an enterprising stand of 113 between Trego and Lewis Gregory, Somerset’s 376 still felt shy of par.Just as Robson gives heart to batsmen who do not embrace the need for speed, so Murtagh does the same: a motorway speed camera would barely be disturbed by a car chugging away at his pace. That should have boded well for Somerset, who have an array of bowlers of similar ilk to Murtagh, but they did not match his skill or impact. As Robson and Gubbins eye up centuries, so Rogers risks being needed to make yet more runs at Lord’s to ensure Somerset leave with their sixth consecutive draw in this season’s County Championship.