Liton Das has been named captain of the Bangladesh T20I team till the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced today.
Nurul Hasan Sohan was named captain of a 15-man Bangladesh ‘A’ team squad for the first two one-dayers of a three-match series against New Zealand ‘A’, set to begin in Sylhet on Monday.
The euphoria around the 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has not died down yet and India appear to have unearthed another teenage batting sensation in Chennai Super Kings opener Ayush Mhatre.
At the launching event of the newly-formed platform Bangladesh District and Divisional Sports Organisers Association (BDDSOA) yesterday in Dhaka, former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal made a request to the councillors who will cast their votes in the next Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) election.
“I welcome constructive criticism and I’ve admitted my mistakes. But sometimes it goes overboard and becomes unnecessary. That distracts from our main goals,” Faruque told reporters on Saturday following the prize distribution ceremony of the Third Division Qualifying League in Mirpur.
Zawad scored 113 off 111 deliveries, hitting 14 boundaries and three sixes. It marked his second hundred in Youth ODIs—his first came in the second match of the series, where he remained unbeaten on 130 off just 106 balls, smashing 14 fours and six sixes.
The Bangladesh women's cricket team was eclipsed by Ireland in the ICC Women's T20I team rankings following the annual update made by the ICC on Friday.
Selector Luke Wright said "runs are the currency" as England consider the makeup of their top order ahead of a busy summer that include high-profile Test series against India and Australia.
Selectors are currently passing a busy time over forming separate squads ahead of the national team's and its understudy team's jam-packed schedule in May with the main concern being picking the right player for the right team.
Reapplying tried and tested methods in Chattogram after the defeat in Sylhet worked wonders for Bangladesh as they made easy work off Zimbabwe in the second Test, rolling them over by an innings and 106 runs inside three days and levelled the two-match series 1-1 today.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi, just 14 years and 32 days old, became the youngest player ever to score a senior T20 century on Monday, smashing a jaw-dropping 101 off 38 balls to script Rajasthan Royals' stunning eight-wicket win over Gujarat Titans.
Motijheel Government Boys' High School emerged as the Dhaka Metro Zone champions of the Prime Bank National School Cricket Tournament, defeating Willes Little Flower School & College by nine wickets in the final at the National Cricket Ground, Purbachal, on April 28
By the time the BCB finally read the room – deciding to open the gates to schoolchildren starting from Day 2 of the second Test in Chattogram – the galleries in Sylhet and now in Chattogram echoed like ghost towns.
Spinners Taijul Islam and Nayeem Hasan spun the momentum of the day in the final session as Zimbabwe reached 227-9 at stumps on Day 1 of the second and final Test at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium in Chattogram today.
Bangladesh bowlers failed to make any breakthroughs post-Lunch as Nick Welch and Sean Williams batted through the second session to take Zimbabwe to 161-2 at Tea on Day 1 of the second and final Test at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium in Chattogram today.
Lucknow Super Giants have given their backing to skipper Rishabh Pant to lead them to glory in the Indian Premier League despite the swashbuckling left-hander's struggles with the bat.
Debutant Tanzim Sakib and Taijul Islam struck once each as Bangladesh reduced Zimbabwe to 89-2 at Lunch on Day 1 of the second and final Test at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium in Chattogram today.
Reeling from a bruising defeat in Sylhet, Bangladesh will look to restore pride and square the series.
Only by losing the first Test in Sylhet could Bangladesh have fans, and everyone else, turn their focus towards themselves for a series that nearly experienced a media blackout, forcing the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to get state-run BTV as the broadcast partner.
