2000–01 Bangladeshi cricket season

The 2000–01 Bangladeshi cricket season marked the beginning of first-class domestic competition in Bangladesh, although the country had already staged first-class matches against touring teams in the previous year. The Green Delta National Cricket League was constituted as the first-class championship and the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea One-Day League as the premier limited overs competition.

International tours

Indian cricket team in Bangladesh

India's national team visited Bangladesh in 2000–01 to take part in the inaugural Test match played by the Bangladesh national cricket team. The tour consisted of a one off test match.

10–13 November 2000
Scorecard
v
400 (153.3 Overs)
Aminul Islam Bulbul 145 (380)
Sunil Joshi 5/142 (45.3 Overs)
429 (141.3 Overs)
Sunil Joshi 92 (180)
Naimur Rahman 6/132 (44.3 Overs)
91 (46.3 Overs)
Habibul Bashar 30 (63)
Javagal Srinath 3/19 (11 Overs)
64/1 (15 Overs)
Rahul Dravid 41 (49)
Hasibul Hossain 1/31 (6 Overs)
India won by 9 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (ENG)
Player of the match: Sunil Joshi

Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe

The Bangladesh national team also toured Zimbabwe and played 2 Test matches and 3 One Day Internationals in April 2001. Bangladesh lost all 5 matches.

Domestic competitions

Honours

First-class Limited Overs
National Cricket League Champions Biman Bangladesh Airlines Biman Bangladesh Airlines
Most Runs 735 - Pakistan Imran Farhat (Biman)[1] 348 - Bangladesh Habibul Bashar (Biman)[2]
Most Wickets 57 - Bangladesh Enamul Haque (Chittagong)[3] 19 - Bangladesh Mohammad Sharif (Biman)[4]

National Cricket League

Although separate first-class and limited overs matches were contested by domestic teams in the 2000-01 season, results from both formats were combined to form a common points table. In the first round teams were placed in two groups of four. Each team played a 3-day first-class match and a 50 overs limited overs match against the other teams in its group, home and away. The top two teams from each group progressed to the final round where teams played a 4-day first-class and a 50 overs limited match against the qualifiers from the other group, home and away.[5]

Group A

Team Pld First-class matches Limited overs Pts
W L DWF DLF ND W L
Biman Bangladesh Airlines 12 2 0 3 1 0 4 2 32
Chittagong Division 12 3 0 2 1 0 2 4 30
Rajshahi Division 12 2 2 0 2 0 3 3 18
Dhaka Division 12 0 5 0 1 0 3 3 6

Group B

Team Pld First-class matches Limited overs Pts
W L DWF DLF ND W L
Dhaka Metropolis 12 2 0 2 2 0 3 3 26
Khulna Division 12 3 1 1 1 0 2 4 26
Barisal Division 12 0 2 2 1 1 3 3 15
Sylhet Division 12 0 2 1 2 1 4 2 13

Final stage

Team Pld First-class matches Limited overs Pts
W L DWF DLF ND W L
Biman Bangladesh Airlines 20 4 1 4 1 0 6 4 52
Chittagong Division 20 5 1 2 2 0 3 7 44
Dhaka Metropolis 20 3 1 3 3 0 6 4 42
Khulna Division 20 4 4 1 1 0 4 6 36

Other matches

Date Type Match Result Report
7–9 January 2000 3-Day Match BCB Under-21 v Australian Cricket Academy Draw Scorecard
12–14 January 2000 3-Day Match BCB Presidents XI v Australian Cricket AcademyDraw Scorecard
15 January 2000 50 Over Match BCB Presidents XI v Australian Cricket Academy Australian Cricket Academy won by 4 wickets Scorecard
17–20 January 2000 4-Day Match BCB XI v Australian Cricket Academy Australian Cricket Academy won by 155 runs Scorecard
23 January 2000 50 Over Match BCB XI v Australian Cricket Academy Australian Cricket Academy won by 154 runs Scorecard
24 January 2000 50 Over Match BCB XI v Australian Cricket Academy Australian Cricket Academy won by 5 wickets Scorecard
25 January 2000 50 Over Match BCB XI v Australian Cricket Academy Australian Cricket Academy won by 6 wickets Scorecard
27 March 2000 50 Over Match BCB XI v Asia XI Asia XI won by 5 wickets Scorecard

See also

References

Further reading