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সৈয়দ ইরতেজা আলী

বিশ্বকাপে বাংলাদেশ দলের ৭ জন ব্যাটসম্যানের কথা (10th March, 2007)

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A. Bashir

In between moderating the BanglaCricket forums, our own A Bashir pens cricket articles that offer deep insights and make you go hmmm....

Between Black and White (19th October, 2004)
Time for an evaluation (17th May, 2004)
BD-AUS ODI Series: Batting Experiments Backfired! (7th May, 2006)
The ‘Test match’ path of Bangladesh: expectations vs missing links (23rd June, 2007)
সময়ের সেই ধ্বনি শুনতে কি পাস্‌ তোরা? (18th October, 2007)

A. Bashir and Imran Kabir

In between moderating the BanglaCricket forums, our own A Bashir pens cricket articles that offer deep insights and make you go hmmm....

Imran Kabir is a Masters candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in Information Systems. His passion for Bangladesh Cricket has brought him to BanglaCricket, where he soon found the perfect world of cricket lovers. He goes by the nick "Kabir" in our forums, and is a BanglaCricket Editor.

Oath 2007 (16th March, 2007)

Abdur Quaderi

The author is a distinguished member of BanglaCricket forum. He goes by the nick Doorbin.

A Nation That Loves Cricket (3rd August, 2003)
Solving the Unsolvable (17th November, 2004)

Abdus Sami Chowdhury

England in Bangladesh 2003 ? Part 2 (22nd November, 2003)
England in Bangladesh 2003 ? Part 1 (20th November, 2003)
Tigers lost but not defeated - ODI 3 Bulletin 2 (27th December, 2004)
Tigers lost but not defeated - ODI 3 Bulletin 1 (27th December, 2004)

Abu Choudhury

Abu Choudhury studied law at University and works in a local government litigation team in London. He is an avid cricket fan and a mediocre cricketer. In his spare time he enjoys paragliding and long walks in the country. He goes by the nick abu2abu on our forums.

Preview - Bangladesh in Pakistan, 2007-08 : A tale of two troubled sides (7th April, 2008)
David Vs Goliath : Preview of Bangladesh in Australia, 2008. (27th August, 2008)
Preview : New Zealand in Bangladesh, 2008 - Out of the frying pan into the fire… (8th October, 2008)
Preview: Bangladesh in World Twenty20 (2nd June, 2009)

Adnan Sadeque

A critique to Richard McInnes, The U19 coach (20th February, 2004)

Ahmad A. Iqbal

These are the boys of Khudiram, Salam, Barkat, Rafiq et. al. (26th October, 2004)
Ode to Coach (17th August, 2004)
Elixir of Fighting Spirit (29th July, 2004)
Hate to sound like a cynic (22nd July, 2004)
The Tao of Cricket ? Overcoming Tigers? Mental Blocks (7th June, 2004)

Ali Tareque

Setting Personal Targets (25th May, 2004)

Aminul Islam Bulbul

To fans and afficionados of Bangladesh cricket, Aminul Islam needs no introduction. He captained the Bangladesh team in the 1999 World Cup. In the maiden Test versus India in 2000, he scored Bangladesh's first Test Century. His 9-hour 145 remained the highest Bagladesh Test score until recently broken by Mohamad Ashraful's 158 versus India in 2005. In the early days, Gordon Greenidge has described him as one of only three, top class batsmen in Bangladesh. He has been one of very few Bangladesh players to have played club cricket abroad. He was in England for the 2000 season, playing for USP (United Services of Portsmouth) and more recently has been playing cricket in his new home, Australia.

Kim Hughes gave up his captaincy and ran (2nd June, 2005)

Amit Shukla

Bangladesh v Australia in ODIs - A Factfile (30th July, 2003)
Bangladesh Blown Away For 97 (18th July, 2003)
What to Expect ? (17th July, 2003)
Sensational win for Bangladesh (13th July, 2003)
Bangladeshi bowlers fightback (12th July, 2003)
Batting lets Bangladesh down (11th July, 2003)
NTCM XI all out for 189 (10th July, 2003)
Tough Road ahead (6th July, 2003)
Innes ton puts CBCA in a strong position (3rd July, 2003)
Bangladesh nearing an important win (28th June, 2003)

Ananda Herath

Ananda Herath is a Sri Lankan well-wisher of Bangladesh Cricket. He has played some mercantile tournament cricket and has always been a great cricket fan. He is a keen student of the game and looks at teams like Bangladesh and Kenya who are trying to make a name for themselves as did Sri Lanka in her early days.

Sri Lanka ODI Preview from a Lankan persepective (30th August, 2005)
Victory at Bogura - Yet another step in the right direction (22nd February, 2006)

Andrew Mclean

Andrew McLean is a New Zealand cricket fan and some-time journalist residing in his new home London. Currently, he works for a Bank that has sponsored the media centre at Lord's, which, incidentally, can be seen out the window of his St John's Wood flat. Andrew is hugely passionate about cricket and hopes to travel to India one day after having a brilliant experience in Bangladesh in 2004. He plays rugby and cricket socially and spends much of his time watching Premier League and Champions League football, especially Liverpool who he has followed since he was 8 years old.

Bangladesh in New Zealand: Preview - New Zealand (23rd December, 2007)

Arnab Zaheen

Arnab Zaheen would like to think he is a keen observer of the game. When he is not watching Bangladesh cricket matches or reading passionate threads in the forums, he is engaged in site development and maintenance at BanglaCricket.

Match report: Bangladesh vs. Sri Lanka, First ODI (31st August, 2005)

Asaad Wahid

Asaad Wahid is a distinguished member of Banglacricket forum and he goes by the nick al Furqaan.

Preview: Bangladesh vs India (8th December, 2004)
Mohammad Ashraful (26th October, 2004)
Bangladesh: Target ICC Champions Trophy (ICCCT) (9th September, 2004)
Where we were, are now, and will be... (14th July, 2004)
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh: ODI preview (21st February, 2006)
The Preview: Bangladesh vs Australia (7th April, 2006)
Bangladesh: Past, Present, and Future Vol. I (24th June, 2006)
Bangladesh at Zimbabwe 2006 - A post mortem (13th August, 2006)
Strategies for World Cup 2007 (13th March, 2007)
Test Cricket Returns (15th May, 2007)
Bangladesh: Past, Present, and Future Vol. II (19th August, 2007)
Bangladesh: Past, Present, and Future Vol. III (6th July, 2009)
Rajib Roars and the Art of Reverse Swing (27th January, 2010)

Asif Rahman

Asif Rahman, in the guise of AsifTheManRahman, is a prolific contributor to the BanglaCricket forums. His articles just goes on to show that quantity and quality can go hand in hand.

Screaming for a strong domestic league (17th August, 2004)
Proposal for different Test and ODI teams (25th July, 2004)
The age factor (1st June, 2005)

Asif Saleh

Asif Saleh known as Sraabon in BC has been an armchair cricket player all his life. He never made it to the Nirman team in his school days at St. Joseph's because he missed all the practice sessions while listening to radio commentaries of Test matches all around the world. He has finally found a venue to be the Harsha Bhogle of Bangladesh via BanglaCricket.com. His goals are getting hired as a full time sports reporter by the Daily Star and get paid to see Test cricket around the world.

Bangladesh in England: Test report card (8th June, 2005)
An Evening with the Tigers (24th May, 2005)

Atul

Gulf between U-19 and senior national players (16th August, 2004)
Bangladesh in ODIs - an appraisal (3rd July, 2004)
What separates the best from the rest (13th June, 2004)

Azim Fahmi

Is Bangladesh really struggling? (18th June, 2005)

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BanglaCricket Team

Bangladesh wins the 100th ODI (26th December, 2004)
Update: Bangladesh v West Indies Test 2, Day 3, Stumps (6th June, 2004)
Update: Bangladesh v West Indies Test 2, Day 2, Stumps (5th June, 2004)
Update: Bangladesh v West Indies Test 2, Day 1, Stumps (4th June, 2004)
Bangladesh ODI Report Card: A BanglaCricket Analysis (23rd May, 2004)
Day 4 and the fans (8th January, 2005)
Chatting with Mushfiqur Rahim and Abdur Razzak (21st April, 2007)

Behrouz Y

Author is a distinguished member and moderator of BanglaCricket forums. He is more commonly known among fellow BC members with his user id Carte Blanche.

BD vs Aus Test 1 : A Postmortem (13th April, 2006)

Ben Alam

Ben Alam is an esteemed member of the forum and goes by the nick Zephaniah .

Fast bowling duo and a workhorse for BD team (9th April, 2004)

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Charles Randall

Charles Randall is a Daily Telegraph journalist who has been travelling with the England A team to Bangladesh, Feb-Mar, 2007. He Originally published "Bangladesh Diary" from his site Charlierandallcricket.com. Banglacricket thanks Charles Randall for his kind permission to reproduce it.

Bangladesh Diary 15: Bangladesh On Their Way (10th March, 2007)

chinaman

Clean Up (23rd October, 2003)
Are You Ready Kids? (20th October, 2003)
Peshawari Cheat (19th September, 2003)
The bitter sweet loss (4th September, 2004)
Show me the progress (27th August, 2004)
O Captain! My Captain! (25th August, 2004)
Non expert opinion (31st July, 2004)
Evil n-Tier System (17th June, 2004)
Men with smiles (29th May, 2004)
Out Stumped or Run Out (15th January, 2004)
The victory tastes so sweet (10th January, 2005)
Slow Bowling Terminology (1st January, 2003)
Calling No Ball (1st April, 2003)
Reverse Swing (1st July, 2003)

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D J Sahastra

DJ's Verdict - Faltering at crucial Juncture (11th December, 2004)

Dr. Mahmudul Huq Khan

Dr. Mahmudul Huq Khan is an esteemed member of BanglaCricket forum and goes by the nick Cricket46.

Sleepless fun night for three bucks (20th December, 2004)
Bangladesh at Lord?s: Some random thoughts (29th May, 2005)
Final day thoughts (17th January, 2005)

Dr. Zunaid Kazi

Zunaid Kazi is an almost fanatical Bangladesh cricket supporter with almost non-existent cricket playing skills. He compensates for this deficiency by spending an inordinate amount of time following all things cricket. Zunaid is also an administrator at BanglaCricket and goes by the nick "Zunaid".

The SLA Wars: M Rafique vs. D Vettori (18th October, 2004)
First Test Verdict: Coming of Age (2nd June, 2004)
Day 4 Verdict: Fall from Grace (1st June, 2004)
Day 3 Verdict: Advantage dropped but still on top (31st May, 2004)
Day 1 Verdict: Respect: 2-1 for the Tigers (29th May, 2004)
Postmortem and Prognostications (16th May, 2004)
Resetting Expectations (16th April, 2004)
There ARE Tigers in Africa (*) (10th March, 2004)
Announcing the New Tools Section (8th March, 2004)
Hours after the 4th day (22nd February, 2004)
2006 Alphabet Soup (9th January, 2007)
2008 Alphabet Soup (1st January, 2009)

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F Waliullah

What a difference only 2 players made! (23rd December, 2003)
Too Much Cricket? (23rd December, 2003)
Shahriar Hossain Is Back With LIGHTNING (15th December, 2003)
Bangladesh 'A' Team's Primary Squad To Tour Pakistan (20th November, 2003)
A Long Shot At The Coming Zimbabwe Tour (19th November, 2003)
An OK Match (12th November, 2003)
The Last Match Before A Long Deserving Break (12th November, 2003)
The Only Medicine (7th November, 2003)
One Day Series Preview (6th November, 2003)
Chittagong Wicket (3rd November, 2003)
Captain As Good As The Team (1st November, 2003)
Support Each Other (31st October, 2003)
Mashrafee's Career Best Figures, But Top Batsman Fail Again (30th October, 2003)
This Is Only The Beginning! (25th October, 2003)
Appeal to the Bangladesh Players: Do It For Ashoka! (24th October, 2003)
Bangladesh's Tail Wags! (22nd October, 2003)
Learn From Us (16th October, 2003)
Changes in the Test Squad Expected (16th October, 2003)
The Search For A Middle Order Bat (15th October, 2003)
Bangladesh vs England: First International Match (8th October, 2003)
BCB names contracted players (29th September, 2003)
Eng Tour : Team Selection (29th September, 2003)
Before Start Of The Pakistan Tour (24th September, 2003)
Bangladesh Going Towards Its Goal (19th September, 2003)
Bangladesh Came Close To A Victory Again (18th September, 2003)
A Turning Point? (15th September, 2003)
Whatmore Challenge (15th September, 2003)
How much you want it? (6th September, 2003)
Cricket Followers on the Net (5th September, 2003)
The Excitement of Test Cricket (5th September, 2003)
Champions! (4th September, 2003)
Everything Happening Fast (29th August, 2003)
Time To Gain Some National Pride (22nd August, 2003)
No Difference (19th August, 2003)
1st Test Preview: Are They Up For It? (19th August, 2003)
Statistics before Bangladesh's tour of Pakistan (10th August, 2003)
Expect Good Fightback (5th August, 2003)
TWO IN A ROW? (12th July, 2003)
We Need New Blood (29th June, 2003)
Time to Earn Our Rights Back (21st June, 2003)
5 players will be out (10th June, 2003)
Akram Khan (1st March, 2003)
Harsh Prediction (15th February, 2003)
A Couple of Things Pointed Out (1st February, 2003)
Too Insensitive? (15th January, 2003)
As Usual (1st January, 2003)
Back To The Future (5th October, 2004)
Bulletin: BD vs Ireland First Practice Match (29th August, 2004)
No More Debutants (31st July, 2004)
ATTITUDE! (16th May, 2004)
Skills need time to improve (9th May, 2004)
Team more important than individuals (8th May, 2004)
The Dark Horses (14th April, 2004)
Belief (28th March, 2004)
Instant Reaction: One Day Cricket is a Batsman's Game (14th March, 2004)
Ashraful Surprise Brought us Much Awaited Win (10th March, 2004)
Instant Reaction: Innings Break: Ashraful Surprise (10th March, 2004)
Mission: Hong Kong (6th March, 2004)
Barrier (6th March, 2004)
A Target (25th February, 2004)
Instant Reaction: Many regrets, but a fine performance! (21st February, 2004)
Forget about winning (20th February, 2004)
Individual Comparison: Bangladesh & Zimbabwe (13th February, 2004)
Head to head: Zimbabwe and others (12th February, 2004)
Habibul Bashar's first two assignments (25th January, 2004)
Is Bashar on his way to the same fate as Mahmud? (20th January, 2004)
A Rough Sketch: Records (part 2) (15th January, 2004)
A Rough Sketch (part 1) (15th January, 2004)
The Opening Saga (14th January, 2004)
Instant Reaction: Need specialist coaches for every Bangladesh team (13th January, 2004)
Instant Reaction: Desperate Times (4th January, 2004)
The danger of not knowing (5th January, 2005)
Cutting down the negativisms? (4th January, 2005)

Fab

The cricket charlatan that goes by the nick 'fab' prefers the patriotic and mindless flag waving aspect of cricket more so than the technical and statistical side. As a closet hooligan, this individual is a spectacular example of how cricket can be appreciated by almost anyone.

Taking the art of biased writing to new frontiers (10th September, 2003)
Riding the emotional rollercoaster (10th September, 2003)

Faruq Hasan

U-19 Coach McInnes Interview (21st January, 2004)

Fazleh Chowdhury

BD vs NZ Test 2: Spinning the positives! (29th October, 2004)
2006 Year End Player Evaluation and Beyond - Fans' Perspectives (30th December, 2006)

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G. M. Bashar

G. M. Bashar is a BanglaCricket supermoderator who is known as "oracle". He is a prolific contributor to our collection of fine articles. In addition to his obvious interest in cricket, he also has a keen desire to be our own version of David Frost - exemplified by the large number of interviews he has taken of key Bangladesh cricket personalities.

Inspirational fielding will redeem Bangladesh (26th November, 2003)
Let?s think before using the ?D? word ! (31st October, 2003)
Still puzzled by the toss decision? (29th October, 2003)
Home Advantage Preparation (23rd October, 2003)
A tribute to Pilot (23rd October, 2003)
Sporting wickets for Bangladesh (17th December, 2004)
The Return Of Mashrafee Mortaza (11th December, 2004)
Training Day (1st December, 2004)
A peek at the New Zealand Team (6th October, 2004)
Taming The Tiger (13th September, 2004)
Memorable Moments (3rd August, 2004)
All eyes on Ashraful (22nd July, 2004)
Cooking up the ODI team (24th June, 2004)
From the Michael Findlay Terrace (17th May, 2004)
A Sense of Place - Sabina Park and Beausejour (26th April, 2004)
Sincere Patronage (5th April, 2004)
On the benefits of variety (9th March, 2004)
GuBulawayo? (25th February, 2004)
All cheers for the Nightwatchman! (20th February, 2004)
Being Mashrafee Mortaza (17th February, 2004)
Zimbabwe team profile (12th February, 2004)
No cruise control in Namibia, please! (12th January, 2004)
From agony to ecstasy (20th June, 2005)
Interview with Allister de Winter (16th June, 2005)
The raft that is Dav (16th April, 2005)
Bangladeshis in the county circuit (8th March, 2005)
"Talent, Enamul & the promise of the U19s" - the McInnes interview (22nd January, 2005)
A conversation with Andy Roberts (28th August, 2005)
Farming the runs (26th September, 2005)
Interview with Richard McInnes (2nd July, 2007)
Conversation with Shaun Williams (21st July, 2007)

G. M. Bashar and F Waliullah

9 months to get an ODI team? (part 2) (20th December, 2003)
9 months to get an ODI team? (part 1) (19th December, 2003)

G. M. Bashar and Sreeram Iyer

The authors are the moderators of banglacricket forum and go by the nicks "oracle" and "Tintin" respectively

Zimbabwe in Bangladesh 2005 preview (30th December, 2004)
Facing South Africa (6th April, 2007)

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Ian Whitchurch

Ian Whitchurch lives in Sydney, Australia, and spends too much time on BanglaCricket, alternatively hosing down and geeing up over-emotional Tigers fans. In real life, he runs a small independent oil company.

Views From Afar (6th June, 2004)
Views From Afar (30th May, 2004)
Review: BD-A vs. Gloucestershire, Day 1 (21st July, 2005)
One step at a time (1st July, 2005)
Crunch Time! (17th November, 2009)
Carn the Tigers: 5 days in Hamilton (20th February, 2010)

Ibrahim Khan

Who is Powerful: God or ICC Cricket Umpire? (24th February, 2004)

Imran Kabir

Imran Kabir is Masters candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in Information Systems. His passion for Bangladesh Cricket has brought him to BanglaCricket, where he soon found the perfect world of cricket lovers. He goes by the nick "Kabir" in our forums, and is a BanglaCricket Editor.

Next step: mastering the short version (5th April, 2007)

Imtiaz Kabir

Imtiaz Kabir was introduced to cricket in the days of shortwave radio. He later settled in England where he had the opportunity to watch the greats of the last 30 years and more.

Batting Shortcomings: The Hannan conundrum (13th December, 2004)
A general critique... (21st July, 2004)
Bangladeshis vs. Sussex: First day report (15th May, 2005)
The best ball bowled by a Bangladesh bowler..yet (3rd June, 2007)
Light at the end of the tunnel? The bulb needs changing! (3rd August, 2007)

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J. Battye

J. Battye has been a member of the phpBB Teams since February 2006, spending time on both the MOD Team and the Support Team. His own web site, CricketMX.com, has been running since January 2004. The author has been a keen participant of BanglaCricket forums for many years and goes by the nick Battye.

Bangladesh vs. Zimbabwe preview - a Zimbabwean perspective (4th August, 2009)
Zimbabwe in Bangladesh preview: a Zimbabwean perspective on which Zimbabweans to watch out for (23rd October, 2009)

James Stedman

Young James Stedman is a steadfast Australian fan of Bangladesh Cricket and goes by the nick James90 on our forums. He is also on the BanglaCricket staff.

Persist or Experiment? (2nd December, 2003)
Time For A Change? (29th November, 2003)
By November 12 (7th October, 2003)
Australia Inflicts Innings Defeat Within 3 Days (20th July, 2003)
Historic Day At Darwin (19th July, 2003)
Australia Dominates Day 1 (18th July, 2003)
Bashar's 99 puts Bangladesh in strong position (4th July, 2003)
First Day In Australia Equally Poised (27th June, 2003)
Developing young fast bowlers (17th September, 2004)
Upset in the Caribbean (26th March, 2004)
2003 Stat Fact (1st January, 2004)
Tour matches: More than a warmup (17th May, 2005)
2004 Stat Fact (1st January, 2005)
2005 Stat fact (1st January, 2006)

Junal A. Chowdhury

Has the patience finally run out of Dave? (16th September, 2004)
Dav?s Consistency In Experimentation (26th July, 2004)

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Khondaker Mirazur Rahman

Khondaker Mirazur Rahman spends as much time on BanglaCricket as on his Post-Doctoral research on Gene Targeted Drug Design. Like a true scientist his articles are all well researched. He goes by the nick "Miraz" on our forums and is also a BanglaCricket editor.

SLA bowlers: Bright future for Bangladesh cricket (17th August, 2006)
Bangladesh Cricket in 2006: A definite leap in right direction - Part 1 (1st January, 2007)
Tri Series and Warm Up Matches: Building the Momentum (25th February, 2007)
World Cup Preview: Bangladesh Aims to Enter The Big League (11th March, 2007)
Super eight preview : Bangladesh aiming to surprise elites (28th March, 2007)
Review of Bangladesh's World Cup 2007 mission in numbers (29th April, 2007)
ODI series Preview, India in Bangladesh 2007: Bangladesh aim to continue ascendancy over confused India (6th May, 2007)
BanglaCricket Exclusive: An interview with Khaled Mahmud (8th May, 2007)
“A big man with a big heart” – An exclusive interview with Akram Khan (15th May, 2007)
When whim dominates common sense (27th May, 2007)
The untold story of Mohammad Ashraful, the flag bearer of Bangladesh Cricket (18th June, 2007)
An interview with Aminul Islam Bulbul (28th June, 2007)
Preview : New look Bangladesh face stiff challenge in Twenty20 World Cup (12th September, 2007)
Pre-season review of National Cricket League 2007-08 (8th October, 2007)
Jamie Siddons set to become Bangladesh Coach (28th October, 2007)
It takes time to change : An interview with Naimur Rahman Durjoy (20th November, 2007)
Bangladesh in New Zealand: Preview - Bangladesh must rise to the occasion (23rd December, 2007)
BanglaCricket review of the 2007 cricketing year (31st December, 2007)
Preview - South Africa in Bangladesh 2007-08 : A real test for Siddons and Bangladesh (18th February, 2008)
"বাংলাদেশের পক্ষে খেলতে পারাটা আমার জীবনের সেরা অর্জন" — মোহাম্মদ রফিক। (4th March, 2008)
“Playing for Bangladesh is the best thing that happened to my life” : An interview with Mohammad Rafique (4th March, 2008)
“Future is important but not at the cost of present”, an interview with Habibul Bashar (2nd April, 2008)
Siddons plans a Tiger uprising (14th September, 2008)
Bangladesh face familiar challenge against Sri Lanka (21st December, 2008)
Ashraful needs to go (10th January, 2009)
Tri-nation ODI series 2010 preview : Testing time for Bangladesh (1st January, 2010)
“Bangladesh is on the right track to become a competitive team in near future”. An interview with Jamie Siddons (2nd January, 2010)

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Leonard George

West Indies Player Analysis (22nd April, 2004)

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M Mahmud

M Mahmud is distinguished member of BanglaCricket forum and goes by the nick "Sauron". His cricketing skills are more suited to stickcricket than an actual pitch. But he has been a die-hard follower of Bangladesh cricket for a long time. Happily married and blessed with a daughter. Mission in life - Not to die before Bangladesh is World Champion.

“???????? ??? ????? ??? ????? ??” - ???????? ??????? (2nd April, 2006)

M. Rubaiyat Kibria

Massive Overhaul (31st October, 2004)

Mahdee Jameel

An ardent cricket fan, Mahdee Jameel is a regular and active member of the BanglaCricket forums where he is known as Shafin. In forums he is known for competing with other members to be the first one to start match threads during Bangladesh matches. With his never ending enthusiasm for Bangladesh cricket, we hope for many more analytical articles in the future.

Utseya vs Razzak, Who is the better bowler? (9th November, 2006)
The left-handed revolution (14th January, 2007)

Mahmood Rejwan

The Fall of Test Performance: Reasons (2nd November, 2003)
David Hookes apologized for previous comment (30th July, 2003)
Post Mortem of First Test (22nd July, 2003)
Practice Match Statistics (14th July, 2003)
Bangladesh beats CBCA in 2nd Practice Match (5th July, 2003)
Bangladesh lost to Queensland Academy (29th June, 2003)
Test Squad Announced for Australia Tour (12th June, 2003)

Mahmudul Alam

Mahmudul Alam is a young aggie from Qatar and a great fan of Bangladesh cricket. Yes, an aggie from Qatar. He is in the undergraduate program in EE at the Texas A & M University at Qatar. This university is a branch campus of the Texas A & M University at College Station, Texas, USA. He is known in the forums as BD-Shardul.

Bangladesh Cricket in 2006: A-Z (9th January, 2007)
Flashback through Alphabets: Bangladesh Cricket in 2007 (31st December, 2007)

Mahmudul Huq Khan

How can we perform better? (24th July, 2004)
Following the game (19th May, 2004)
A few thoughts (6th April, 2004)

Masum Billah

Besides authoring witty and informative articles on Bangladesh cricket, Masum Billah contributes and shares much more of his insights on our forums, where he goes by the nick "billah".

Not Valiance But Grit? (10th November, 2003)
What's in a name? (8th November, 2003)
IND vs. BD 1st ODI Reportcard (24th December, 2004)
Talking to Faruk & Dav (Part 1) (9th December, 2004)
Give Kapali a hand (18th May, 2004)
Some Points On West Indies Performance (7th May, 2004)
Time for a Recap (11th April, 2004)
We've won. Consistency. (12th March, 2004)
Baptism of Fire (10th March, 2004)
To gloat or not to gloat (4th March, 2004)
What Now? (1st March, 2004)
Hours Before The 4th Day (21st February, 2004)
Here Comes Harare... (18th February, 2004)
Reality Check (14th February, 2004)
Of myths, destiny and loyalty (10th January, 2005)
Bangladesh - India ODI series tidbits & some related thoughts (3rd January, 2005)
A plea with the BCB (26th September, 2005)
A BanglaCricket Exclusive: The Mirpur Stadium (26th September, 2006)
Our Middle Order (14th January, 2007)

Mijanul Akbar

Like most ex-pats Mijanul Akbar is always keen to see Bangladesh excel in every aspect of life. Sports is in his blood. He is a family man, works as an Auditor in US and also teaches Management courses online. We know him as Tigers_eye in our forum.

Champion’s Trophy Buildup (26th September, 2006)
Past and present with six associate members (26th January, 2006)
African safari 2006 - Final grades (16th August, 2006)
The steep learning curve (27th December, 2006)
World Cup '07 success: the line between expectation and celebration (6th April, 2007)
Planning ahead: What the BCB should do for the short-term (21st July, 2007)

Mohammed A Alam

Day job: Browsing BanglaCricket! Other job : Telecom Consultant. The author currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. but is originally from Dhaka. He has been a frequent visitor and contibutor to BanglaCricket for nearly three years and is known in the forums as "Beamer".

South Africa - our first opponent in ICCCT (2nd September, 2004)
World Cup 2007 : A new approach (22nd October, 2006)

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Nasif Akand

Bangladesh too hot for Hong Kong (16th July, 2004)

Nazim Shirazi

Nazim Shirazi needs very little introduction to those who follow Bangladesh Cricket. As a yooung teenager Nazim was a key member of the national team in the early 80s. He is one of the most gifted and talented cricketer Bangladesh has ever produced. He was a very reliable opening batsman for Bangladesh and a tremendous fielder from a very young age. BanglaCricket is honored to have Nazim as a member of our forum. He goes by the nick Nazim Shirazi.

Why do we need to justify our success? (11th January, 2005)
Heart and Mental Toughness is Missing! (24th March, 2003)
The importance of partnership (28th June, 2003)
Do you really want it? (1st September, 2003)

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Obayed Haque

Obayed Haque is currently doing Masters in International Hotel Management at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada. After completing his Bachelor and Masters in Finance from University of Dhaka, he moved to Canada and started working for the Fairmont Empress, Victoria.

In personal life, he is a proud father of Sreejon. Cooking food for friends, traveling with his spouse and reading books are his favorite pastime activities. A crazy Bangladesh fan Obayed has a beautiful orchid garden and goes by the nick "Kalpurush" in our forum.

বাঘ্র শাবকেরা ইতিহাসের জাল বোনে (3rd December, 2007)

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Rabeed Imam

Rabeed Imam is the editor of Tigercricket.com and media manager of Bangladesh national cricket team.

From a quiet village of Magura to the top of the world : An interview with Shakib Al Hasan (24th January, 2009)

Rafiq Ahmed

Glory days of MMTT gone? (20th October, 2003)
Khaled Mahmud Sujon ? Point of No Return (21st August, 2003)
Temptations of the Promised Land (19th December, 2004)
Major Changes to Team Unlikely? (29th July, 2004)
Bangladesh U-19 belong in the Super League (18th February, 2004)
The morning after: chasing 374 (18th January, 2005)

Raihan Hannan

Raihan Hannan is a Bangladeshi currently residing in Georgia USA as an IT professional but still follows cricket on a regular basis. His love for cricket grew as a child growing up in Australia. He goes by the nick Raynman on our forum.

Grading the 2009 T20 World Cup (27th June, 2009)
How did they do? A review of Bangladesh after the series (14th November, 2009)

Razab Q. Chowdhury

Razab Q. Chowdhury feels particularly adept at being an armchair critic based on his past history of playing school cricket and dispatching a slew of West Indian cricketers while at college. He deigns to grace our forum as RazabQ and is a forum moderator.

2nd Test, 1st Day Observations (5th June, 2004)
Belated 3rd Day Observations (31st May, 2004)
Day by Day Match Analysis: Day 2 (30th May, 2004)
Day by Day Match Analysis: Day 1 (30th May, 2004)
The case against the second spinner (13th May, 2005)
The last batting spot for the England tour (28th March, 2005)
Miscellaneous thoughts from an arm-chair all-rounder (13th January, 2005)

Razab Q. Chowdhury and Zunaid Kazi

Razab Q. Chowdhury feels particularly adept at being an armchair critic based on his past history of playing school cricket and dispatching a slew of West Indian cricketers while at college. He deigns to grace our forum as RazabQ and is a forum moderator.

Zunaid Kazi is an almost fanatical Bangladesh cricket supporter with almost non-existent cricket playing skills. He compensates for this deficiency by spending an inordinate amount of time following all things cricket. Zunaid is also an administrator at BanglaCricket and goes by the nick "Zunaid".

2005 Alphabet Soup (12th January, 2006)

Richard McInnes

Rotating the strike (4th November, 2004)
Player injury status and availability (30th September, 2004)
U19 Tour Stats (30th August, 2004)
Coach's Report: U19 Test Three (20th August, 2004)
Coach's Report: U19 Test Two (14th August, 2004)
Coach's Report: U19 Test One (31st July, 2004)
Media Release: Bangladesh U19 Program 2004 (28th June, 2004)
The Matrix (14th May, 2004)
Perspective on the BD U-19 Team: An Early Summary (6th March, 2004)
Canada and Uganda Games (25th February, 2004)
Reply to critique (20th February, 2004)
Match Report: OD1 - BD A in UAE (2nd February, 2005)

Rubu Islam

Rubu Islam, a BanglaCricket staff, goes by the nick "Rubu" in BanglaCricket forums.

Stop Shuffling! (5th November, 2004)
Bangladesh Vs Hong Kong: Some Observations (16th July, 2004)
Target: Asia Cup (8th July, 2004)
Midpoint Analysis: The Spin Gamble and More (20th May, 2004)
Target: West Indies (1st May, 2004)
The Problem Triangle (12th April, 2004)
The Aftermath of the Zimbabwe Tour (15th March, 2004)
Rana Deserve to be in 5th ODI (12th March, 2004)
Sujon: A Serious Problem (6th March, 2004)
The Lord?s of disaster (30th May, 2005)
Target: England (8th April, 2005)
An overview of the debutants (11th August, 2005)
The openers saga: Guess the numbers (5th November, 2006)

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Saber Ahmed

New Zealand Tour and a Reality (8th October, 2004)
ICCCT: Revelation of Unexposed Wound (16th September, 2004)
ICCCT: Bangladesh vs. South Africa: A Review (14th September, 2004)

Safaat U Shahadat

The author is a distinguished member of banglacricket forum and goes by the nick "safaat"

Fostering competitiveness (30th July, 2004)
Being focused and getting ready to win (20th July, 2004)
Identifying quality from form (4th March, 2005)
Secret to consistent success (20th February, 2005)
“Alok Kapali”: Trying to redefine a cricketer (28th March, 2006)
Fan Perspective: Australia vs Bangladesh (8th April, 2006)

Saifullah Akram

ICC Champion?s Trophy? Really a Disaster? (30th September, 2004)
Bangladesh Tour of Africa 2004: A preview (15th January, 2004)

Samircreep

From the Gallery (26th October, 2003)
Test Series Preview (19th October, 2003)
The Captaincy Issue Re-visited (5th October, 2003)
From the Gallery : BD U19 v NZ U19 (16th February, 2004)

Samiur Rahman

A Postmortem of Our Batting (22nd July, 2004)
Our chances against India (19th July, 2004)

Shafin Siddiqui

Prescription for Success (22nd September, 2004)

Shameem Hassan

Shameem Hassan goes by the nick "Rumee" in BanglaCricket forums.

A tribute to the trail-blazers (11th August, 2005)

Shameran Abed

When Shameran Abed scored his first (and last) half century at the Nirman Championships, those fortunate enough to watch him bat were soon locked in debatea about whether he was a future Lara or a future Tendulkar. Sadly, for all his talent and early promise, he was never able to repeat his feat and was duly dumped from his school side, which prompted him to take up coaching the girls squad! This largely explains his crusade on the BanglaCricket forum against all talentless performers, and his love for all talented underachiervers, a bunch with whom he can identify. He goes by the nick Sham and although he was given the honorary title of BanglaCricket Advisor, most of his advice is usually laughed at and then deleted so as not to waste space on our limited server.

DO THE BASICS RIGHT! (6th November, 2003)
Tigers In With A Sniff! (25th October, 2003)
The England Team Exposed (5th October, 2003)
The Dead Play Cricket (21st September, 2003)
Whatmore Must Find the Answer to the One-day Question (14th September, 2003)
Thoughts on the Test Team’s Composition (17th February, 2004)
A night with the Bangladesh Team (24th May, 2005)
Bangladeshis vs. Sussex: Second day report (16th May, 2005)
Bangladeshis vs. Brit. Unis: Second day review (11th May, 2005)
Bangladeshis vs. Brit. Unis: First day review (10th May, 2005)
The contract renewal issue (17th April, 2005)
The last bowling spot for the England tour (31st March, 2005)

Shameran Abed and Samircreep

Preview: The English Are Here! (11th October, 2003)

Shariq

Very Proud of Bangladesh Cricket (4th June, 2004)

Sheikh Abu Ayub Azad

About the author(s): Sk. Abu Ayub Azad is currently working as a software professional in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He goes by the nick WarWolf in our forum.

Cricket: Sri Lankan Model and Its Possible Adoption in Bangladesh (6th August, 2007)

Shubho

End to All NRR Myths (19th February, 2004)

Sohel N. Rahman

The author was born in Dhaka and brought up in suburban DC and Paris. He has lived almost all of his adult life in San Francisco and Berkeley. SW radio and the Internet kept him connected to a manic love of cricket that's been somewhat of a family tradition since his grandparents went to watch West Indies at Lords during the late 50s. Sir Viv made him a believer. He's a business development consultant living mostly in Dhaka and Chiang Mai - and San Francisco when he has to. He goes by the nick Sohel NR in the forum.

Bangladesh V. India ODI series: A Bangladeshi’s journal (17th May, 2007)
A layman’s foray into new possibilities (Part 1 of 2) (2nd June, 2007)
A layman’s foray into new possibilities (Part 2 of 2) (28th June, 2007)
Bangladesh in the West Indies: Match grades, First Test versus West Indies, No curve. (17th July, 2009)
Bangladesh vs. Zimbabwe preview - a Bangladeshi perspective (9th August, 2009)

Syed Kamal

When one looks up the term "Renaissance Man" in a Bangla obhidhan, our own Syed Kamal's face will grace the description. In his productive life - and it isn't over yet - Syed Kamal has managed to serve as a BCB umpire aspiring to attain ICC certification, earn a living as an Intelligence agent for an "unnamed" US agency, write a romantic/erotic dictionary in Bangla (that somehow ended up on the National Museum's official display of "Bangla Obhidhan er Biborton") and, in his golden years, become a resident in Dubya's home country - Texas. Somehow, between all this, he has also managed to pen this piece.

Lasith Malinga: A severe threat? (21st July, 2005)
An analysis of Bangladeshi batsmen's test innings (1st March, 2005)
Bangladeshi bowling lineup for the Sri Lanka tests (17th August, 2005)
Bangladeshi bowlers against top Test batsmen (6th January, 2006)
U-19 World Cup 2006: Tournament grouping and performance analysis (2nd February, 2006)

Syed Shehwar Hossain

Pretty 20s, Bulbul, Zimbabwe Series & Winning Ugly! (28th October, 2004)
Miscellaneous Thoughts (3rd August, 2004)

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Tanbeer Mahmud

The Way He Gets Out (27th October, 2003)

Tanvir Ahmed

A strong Bangladesh team is not far away (29th December, 2004)

Tariq Mahmud

Tariq Mahmud is a reporter for the Bangla daily Prathom Alo

A conversation with Mashrafe Mortaza (12th July, 2009)

Tehsin Ali

Test stats: Bangladesh at home (5th October, 2003)
Bangladesh on Top (4th September, 2003)
Bangladesh fumble after first innings lead (29th August, 2003)
Not the same old story (24th August, 2003)
Live statistics for the Bangladesh batsmen (22nd August, 2003)
Bangladesh struggling after another batting collapse (27th July, 2003)
Tables turned on Day one (25th July, 2003)

Tom Bourne

Bangladesh-New Zealand Test Series Postmortem: Rating the players (29th October, 2004)

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Utpal Shuvro

Utpal Shuvro is sports editor of the Bengali Daily Prothom Alo.

A historical debut (6th February, 2006)
The epic at Sugoi Buloh (21st February, 2006)
When we win everyone wins, when we lose only we lose (7th July, 2009)

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Wasiq Khan

The author is an esteemed member of the BanglaCricket forums and goes by the nick mwrkhan.

Test batting tactics for the England tour (24th April, 2005)

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Z Alam

Z Alam is an esteemed member of BanglaCricket forums and goes by the nick Optimist.

Balance Between Experience and Youth (18th September, 2004)
Cycle of Mediocrity (3rd March, 2004)
First ever Test victory: what the stats do not say (13th January, 2005)

Zarar Khan

An Alternative Outburst to our Failure (30th July, 2004)

Zeeshan Mahmud

A lifelong cricket aficianado and an ardent disciple of the art and science of the sport, Zeeshan Mahmud can be seen lurking in the forum as ZeeshanM. His other passions include mathematics and filipino martial arts.

A Shakespearean Tragedy (Day 1 of Test 2: Bangladesh v India) (24th January, 2010)
Welcome to the Circus Act! (23rd February, 2010)

Zobair Anam

Day 3- A hugely impressive performance! (23rd October, 2003)
Three cheers and a pat for the Tigers! (29th July, 2003)
The First Million Is The Hardest! (15th July, 2003)
Videocon Cup- First Test: A glimmer of hope! (15th December, 2004)
Richard Mcinnes- Coach, Bangladesh U19 team (20th February, 2004)

Zobair Anam and Sreeram Iyer

Answering critics (21st January, 2005)

Zunaid Haroon

Game plan (19th November, 2004)
Walking the walk (18th October, 2004)
Progress and Purpose for BD in Asia Cup (18th July, 2004)
About failures - a history lesson (29th May, 2005)
Cinderella, the wicked sisters & the step mother (12th February, 2005)
Birth of a star (18th January, 2005)
Taibu?s innings and a lesson for Bangladesh (9th January, 2005)

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