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History

The academy, and the district around it.

Green Sylhet Cricket Academy, গ্রীন সিলেট ক্রিকেট একাডেমী, is a cricket academy in Sylhet. Its public pages place practice at Sylhet District Stadium, Rikabi Bazar, Sylhet, in the Teli Para, Sylhet, Bangladesh area.

The Facebook introduction says academy players take part in Sylhet first-division cricket and in Dhaka’s second and third divisions. About 9.6K people follow the page. Training is listed every day, in a morning batch and an afternoon batch.

Published reporting has called Green Sylhet the biggest cricket academy in Sylhet, and has named Rana Miah, a Bangladesh Cricket Board appointee for the district, as its coach. ESPNcricinfo, writing about Khaled Ahmed, describes a tape-ball bowler being taken to Rana Mia’s academy in Sylhet and reaching first-class cricket for the division soon after.

There is no published founding year on the public page. The academy was already playing representative matches by 2015, when it won the Zakir Qureshi Memorial T20 at this same ground.

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Timeline

Sylhet, in order.

Drawn from The Daily Star’s account of the district, match reports, and the academy’s 2015 final. This is a reading list, not an official academy chronicle.

  1. Heera and Suru

    Shafiqul Haque Heera and Golam Faruk Suru represent Bangladesh from Sylhet, before the country has Test status.

  2. Test status

    Bangladesh plays its first Test. Sylhet’s next generation — Hasibul Hossain, Kapali, Rajin, Tapash, Enamul, Nazmul — comes into the national side over the following years.

  3. Hat-trick at Peshawar

    Alok Kapali, from Sylhet, becomes the first Bangladeshi to take a Test hat-trick. The figures are 3 for 3.

  4. The first Test win

    Enamul Haque Jr. is man of the match as Bangladesh beats Zimbabwe in Chattogram. A Sylheti spinner is at the centre of the country’s first Test victory.

  5. A World Cup from Sylhet

    Rajin Saleh is in Bangladesh’s squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, after the 2006 Champions Trophy.

  6. Green Sylhet are champions

    Green Sylhet Cricket Academy wins the Zakir Qureshi Memorial T20 at the District Stadium. Nasum Ahmed, later a Bangladesh spinner, is man of the tournament.

  7. A Test ground in the city

    Sylhet International Cricket Stadium is set to host the city’s first Test, against Zimbabwe, from 3 November. Abu Jayed, from Sylhet, has already debuted in Tests that July.

  8. The Sylhet Rocket

    Ebadot Hossain, from Barlekha in Moulvibazar, debuts in Tests. Abu Jayed goes to the World Cup.

  9. Nasum in green and red

    Nasum Ahmed, born in Jalalabad and a Green Sylhet match-winner in 2015, debuts for Bangladesh in T20Is.

  10. A debut hundred

    Zakir Hasan, born in Sylhet City, scores 100 on Test debut against India. He is the fourth Bangladesh batter to do it.