# 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
* 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

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.

#### Group A

| Team | Pld | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | Limited overs | Limited overs | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | L | DWF | DLF | ND | W | L | Pts |
| 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 | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | Limited overs | Limited overs | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | L | DWF | DLF | ND | W | L | Pts |
| 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 | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | First-class matches | Limited overs | Limited overs | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | L | DWF | DLF | ND | W | L | Pts |
| 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 |