 Sarkar has also played for the Bangladesh Cricket Control Board Academy in Pakistan, and was selected for a Bangladesh "B team" of 13 for practice matches ahead of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.Sarkar made his first-class debut in January 2004, when he played for Dhaka against Rajshahi Division, and scored 26 runs in two innings as a specialist batsman.Then, he disappeared from the first-class scene, and though he played in club matches in the late months of 2005, he only returned to first-class cricket with a half-century in a National One-Day League match which led Dhaka Division to 116 for two, chasing 178 to win.