Topic: Shakib Al Hasan

India in control of first Bangladesh cricket Test

Gautam Gambhir closed in on a rapid half-century as India raced to 122-1 in their second innings at stumps on the third day of the opening Test against Bangladesh on Tuesday.The opener (47 not out) added 90 for the opening wicket with ...

India crush Bangladesh's reply in first Test

India's seamers ripped through Bangladesh's middle-order to leave the hosts on the back foot in the fog-hit first cricket Test here on Tuesday.Bangladesh, replying to India's modest 243, slumped from their overnight score of 59-3 to 118-6 in the shortened morning session ...

Bangladesh names rookie paceman for India Tests

Bangladesh's cricket selectors on Tuesday named uncapped fast bowler Shafiul Islam in a 14-man squad for the two-Test series against India starting on January 17.The 20-year-old made his one-day debut in the ongoing tri-series against India and Sri Lanka and replaces injured ...

Mortaza to miss out on tri-series

Bangladesh on Thursday left out first-choice captain and fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza for a one-day cricket tri-series that begins next week after he failed to recover quickly enough from a knee injury.Mortaza, 26, damaged his knee during the first Test of a ...

Shakib upstages global stars to claim Wisden award

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has outshone Sachin Tendulkar, Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis to be named as The Wisden Cricketer magazine's Test Player of the Year for 2009.Shakib comfortably topped a performance table compiled by the magazine's correspondents at Tests played ...
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has outshone Sachin Tendulkar, Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis to be named as The Wisden Cricketer magazine's Test Player of the Year for 2009.Shakib comfortably topped a performance table compiled by the magazine's correspondents at Tests played ...

Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by four wickets

Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry equalled the highest individual one-day international score on Sunday, but saw his big-hitting party gatecrashed by Tamim Iqbal as Bangladesh wrapped-up the one-day series here.Coventry blasted an unbeaten 194 to equal former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar's 12-year record, as ...

Shakib stars as Bangladesh defeat Zimbabwe

Shakib Al Hasan slammed 104 to help propel Bangladesh to a 49-run win over Zimbabwe and establish a 2-0 lead in their best of five One Day International series at the Queen's Sports Club here on Tuesday.Al Hasan's efforts helped his country ...

Tigers earn their stripes, win ODI series

Half-centuries from Shakib Al Hasan and Mohammad Ashraful trumped a maiden One-day International hundred from Travis Dowlin, and inspired Bangladesh to a series-clinching three-wicket victory over West Indies here on Tuesday. Shakib, the Bangladesh captain, struck 65 from 61 balls to earn ...

Shakib celebrates Bangladesh's finest moment

Bangladeshi stand-in captain Shakib Al Hasan led from the front with 96 not out as his side beat the West Indies in the second and final test here on Monday and he declared the 2-0 series win was the biggest thing for ...