Khaled Mahmud Sujon

‘The country comes first’: Sujon on Mustafizur

“You can learn from everywhere… Maybe he [Jalal Yunus] didn’t mean it like that.”

Liton needs to devote more time to cricket: Mahmud

“He [Liton] needs to get back to his basics... He needs to mix more with others and give time to cricket,” Mahmud told reporters yesterday.

Sujon takes a sly dig at Hathurusingha

Bangladesh Cricket Board director Khaled Mahmud Sujon has said he does not want to be associated with the national team anymore in the future.

Sujon ‘a bit surprised’ to see Afif sidelined in ODIs

Afif was dropped from both the ODI and T20I side since the New Zealand series last year.

Who selected the chief selector?

Who authorised the selection of the national selector became a pertinent question yesterday after vice-chairman of cricket operations committee and national team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon expressed surprise at the manner of Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu’s appointment.

Sujon surprised by Lipu's chief selector appointment

“I am the vice-chairman of cricket operation, still I didn’t know anything. This is what surprised me the most”

Batting rut, the cause for Liton's reaction: Sujon  

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) might have been trying to keep the cricketers in a stress-free environment but controversy is still finding its way into the World Cup squad in India. 

Tamim issue still hard to leave behind?

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud felt the team need to focus on having a good World Cup and let go of whatever had transpired during the squad-selection announcement and the subsequent feud between Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan.

'Nannu, Bashar, Razzak not enemies of Riyad'

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director Khaled Mahmud Sujon said that the selection panel leaving veteran Mahmudullah Riyad out of the Asia Cup squad came strictly out of their planning.

February 13, 2023
February 13, 2023

Smoking in the dressing room: Sujon penalised

Sujon was fined 30 per cent of his match fees

September 12, 2022
September 12, 2022

Backwards BCB struggling in digital age

Former Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud Sujon, who now holds a very important position as BCB director and director of the men’s national team, made a very surprising remark by saying that even someone like Shakib Al Hasan is afraid of making decisions due to media backlash.

September 11, 2022
September 11, 2022

Mahmud urges '365 days' of patience

Bangladesh players were not the only ones to receive sticks from fans and the media following the debacle in the Asia Cup as the Tigers' team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon also came under scrutiny, triggered by his aggressive responses made during the continental championship.

September 11, 2022
September 11, 2022

‘I’m fighting for Bangladesh in my way’

Khaled Mahmud Sujon, Bangladesh team director and former national cricketer,  stated that he still holds on to his stance taken during a verbal war triggered by Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka during the Asia Cup.

September 7, 2022
September 7, 2022

Bangladesh can win the World Cup: Sujon 

Even though Bangladesh exited the Asia Cup, a continental championship, without any victories, team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon was of opinion that the Tigers possess the ability to conquer the world.

September 2, 2022
September 2, 2022

Rajapaksa and Co ‘planned to beat Bangladesh by hook or crook’

Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa offered an olive branch to the Bangladesh players and said his side planned to win their last night’s Asia Cup encounter by any means.

September 1, 2022
September 1, 2022

Time to show the class: Jayawardene joins war of words

Sri Lanka great Mahela Jayawardena has urged the Lankan bowlers to ‘show their class’ in their Asia Cup encounter against Bangladesh in Dubai today and, in the process, disprove Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon.   

August 31, 2022
August 31, 2022

‘Sri Lanka don’t even have bowlers of Shakib and Mustafizur’s quality’

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon claimed that Sri Lanka do not even have bowlers of the quality of Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman in their ranks as Sujon became the latest to join the verbal war going on between the cricketers and management staff ahead of the two sides' Asia Cup group stage game tomorrow.

August 22, 2022
August 22, 2022

Domingo no-show as Asia Cup preparations kick into gear

Jamie Siddons, Bangladesh batting consultant, was there and so were other members of the coaching panel in Allan Donald, Shane McDermott and Rangana Herath. Team director Khaled Mahmud walked down the side line, passing on instructions but head coach Russell Domingo was nowhere to be seen yesterday during Bangladesh's preparatory practice match for the Asia Cup, played between Bangladesh Red and Bangladesh Green, at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

August 21, 2022
August 21, 2022

The BCB's philosophical paradox

Three years after appointing Russell Domingo as head coach and one year since handing him a contract till 2023, the Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB's) abrupt realisation that the South African's philosophy does "not suit the Bangladeshi brand of cricket" certainly raised a lot of questions.

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