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Comilla Victorians completed a hat-trick of wins, which took them to the top of the points table, with a 52-run demolition of Chattogram Challengers, who have been rocked by a captaincy row in the last 48 hours.Only Will Jacks defied Comilla with his second half-century in the competition, but Chatt...
Ottis Gibson has decided not to renew his contract as Bangladesh's fast-bowling coach. The 52-year-old, who completed his two-year contract with the BCB this month, is set to join the Pakistan Super League (PSL) side Multan Sultans from the start of their campaign on January 27."Ottis Gibso...
Kyle Jamieson and Litton Das have achieved career-best positions in the ICC Test rankings following the drawn series between New Zealand and Bangladesh. South Africa captain Dean Elgar broke into the top 10 for the first time since January 2019. Also, Australia's Usman Khawaja re-entered the ran...
A stirring speech by the team director, a specific message from the captain, some encouragement from his team-mates, and a doting bowling coach. Those were some of the ingredients for Ebadot Hossain's match-winning performance in Bangladesh's fabulous Test victory against New Zealand. A day ...
Rohit Sharma has failed to recover from the hamstring injury that kept him out of the Test series in South Africa. In his absence, KL Rahul will lead India in the three-match ODI series in South Africa. Jasprit Bumrah has been named the vice-captain of the squad.This was supposed to be India’s...
Bangladesh will look to forget 2021, in which they lost five of their seven Tests, and set shorter goals for a better 2022. Their first task in hand, on the first day of the new year, will be to tackle the rampant home side New Zealand. Test captain Mominul Haque said that he will continue to have a...
A drawn game between Central Zone and South Zone took both sides to the Bangladesh Cricket League final. Centuries from Amite Hasan, Towhid Hridoy and Zakir Hasan helped South Zone take a 13-run first-innings lead after Central Zone made 481.Hridoy top scored with 122, striking 13 fours and four six...
It was a case of the more things change the more they stay the same for England as Australia took a stranglehold on the Ashes, bowling out the tourists for 185 on the opening day of the third Test at the MCG before reaching the close one wicket down and only 124 runs behind.England had made four cha...
Former India coach Ravi Shastri is pleased that his statement about Kuldeep Yadav becoming India's No.1 overseas spinner spurred R Ashwin to “do something different.”Ashwin had injured himself in the opening Test of the Australia tour in Adelaide in 2018, and by the time the fourth T...
In the injury-enforced absence of Kane Williamson, Tom Latham will stand in as New Zealand’s captain for the forthcoming two-Test series against Bangladesh, which begins with the first match in Mount Maunganui on New Year’s Day.After Williamson was sidelined from the Mumbai Test earlier ...
Bajid Khan’s maiden six-wicket haul left Bangladesh in danger of being made to follow-on with one day of the Dhaka Test to go. It remains to be seen if the weather will halt Pakistan's push for full WTC points, though.On Tuesday, play was called off at 4.30pm, an hour before scheduled clos...
Ajaz Patel bagged 14 of the 17 Indian wickets to fall in the Mumbai Test, but the hosts continued to boss the game, setting New Zealand an improbable 540 after declaring on 276 for 7. R Ashwin then cracked open the visitors' top order, leaving his side five wickets away from victory at stumps on...
Captain Joe Root says England’s squad can win the big moments to secure an Ashes win in Australia and that he’d be foolish not to understand this series will define him.Set for a third tour and second as captain - his first was his first overseas tour as skipper - Root will walk out at t...
Bangladesh's batters might be looking for ways to transfer the Chattogram pitch back to Mirpur, the venue of the second Test. The highway between the two is great these days. There is also a river cargo route. Of course, the bowlers wouldn't necessarily help out in the shipping process, but ...
The Women's World Cup Qualifier match between Sri Lanka and West Indies in Harare has been called off over what is understood to be Covid-19 fears in the region. It is also understood that the tournament itself could also be postponed - though the other two games on the day, Thailand vs USA and ...
On a day in Chattogram that began with an earthquake and then had smoke from a nearby fire billowing above the stadium, Pakistan blazed through the Bangladesh top order to get the early advantage in the contest. Once Bangladesh found the ground beneath their feet, though, there were no aftershocks. ...
Mominul Haque has the monumental task of changing Bangladesh’s mood in and out of the dressing room. There has been an air of negativity around the team for the past two months. Nine defeats, fiery press conferences and public criticisms in the T20 World Cup was followed by a siege mentality d...
Bangladesh's powerplay woes kept haunting them against Pakistan even though the three T20Is were played on good batting pitches at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. The difficulty to get going during the fielding restrictions took root in the two home series wins against Australia and New Zeala...
Moeen Ali has achieved just about everything he could hope for in an England shirt, but he may come to look back at this week as the most important of his international career.The overriding impression over the last month has been that Moeen's confidence - a vital intangible for a player whose f...
Is this the last time we will see Chris Gayle in action in international cricket? As Gayle trudged off at the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi, a nine-ball 15 to his name, one ball after hitting his 1045th six in T20 cricket, it certainly felt that way.Gayle dragged Pat Cummins on to his stumps to ...
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