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.

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

Bangladesh	v	India
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

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat
• Akram Khan, Al Sahariar, Aminul Islam Bulbul, Habibul Bashar, Khaled Mashud, Mehrab Hossain, Mohammad Rafique, Naimur Rahman, Ranjan Das and Shahriar Hossain made their Test debuts for Bangladesh.
• Shiv Sunder Das, Saba Karim and Zaheer Khan made their debuts for India.

Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe

Main article: Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2000–01

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

The National Cricket League champions were Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The most first-class runs were scored by Imran Farhat (Biman) with 735 and the most wickets taken being 57 by Enamul Haque (Chittagong).

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.^[1]

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 Academy	Draw	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

• History of cricket in Bangladesh

References

1. CricketArchive Oracles. "GREEN DELTA NATIONAL CRICKET LEAGUE 2000/01". Retrieved 9 February 2012.

Further reading

• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2002