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Josh Hazlewood included Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Australia have confirmed their 15-member squad for the World Test Championship (WTC) final against India beginning on June 7 at The Oval, London. Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood, who had injury concerns during the Indian Premier League, has been cleared to play in WTC final and has found a ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh batsman Liton Das asserted that he is not losing sleep over his recent bad patch with the bat as he is confident of overcoming it shortly. The 28-year-old performed dismally in the recently concluded three-match one-day international series against Ireland, as he could manage 0, 21, and 35 at their ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Chennai Super Kings are set to bring their fifth Indian Premier League trophy home, and as there have been speculations that it might be the last season of their skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the 41-year-old is planning to bow out on a victorious note. Though there are no confirmations yet, ‘MSDians’ ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh Cricket Board will receive $100,000 from the ICC World Test Championship, the smallest fraction of a total prize purse of $3.8 million, alongside New Zealand, Pakistan and West Indies. Bangladesh finished in ninth position among nine teams in the Championship, the final of which will be played at The Oval, ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com The Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan hinted that the Bangladesh squad that played against Ireland in the home series in March is set to be finalised as the squad for the forthcoming ICC World Cup scheduled for October-November of this year in India. The Tigers played a three-match one-day international ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com As the conditions in India are known to be quite challenging for pacers, Bangladesh pacer Taskin Ahmed wants to take on that challenge and flourish with the ball in the forthcoming ICC World Cup scheduled to be held there in October-November this year. Earlier, the Indian Express reported that the majority ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan hinted at the inclusion of Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, and veteran Mahmudullah in the Tigers’ squad for the forthcoming ICC World Cup, scheduled to be in October-November in India. Mosaddek, who played his last one-day international against Zimbabwe in Harare in August 2022, performed well ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out from the third and final one-day international against Ireland after he suffered a finger injury while fielding in the second ODI in Chelmsford, England on May 12. The third and final ODI will be played at the same venue on Sunday. ‘Shakib ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com FORMER Zimbabwe national cricket team captain Heath Streak, who is currently serving an eight year-ban from the game for breaching the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code, is reportedly critically ill, prompting calls for prayers from the public. David Coltart, who served as Zimbabwe’s minister of education, sport, arts and culture from ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Saturday that veteran New Zealand batter Grant Bradburn has been appointed as the head coach of the national men’s side for the next two years, following a robust recruitment process. The New Zealander also served as the head coach of the side during the recently-concluded ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com The most remarkable thing in the second ODI was to see Najmul Hossain Shanto come of age. Touted as one of the best young players, Shanto failed to live up to the expectation on most of the occasions but on a day when it mattered the most, he delivered to give ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh women’s team were outplayed by their Sri Lankan counterparts in the series-deciding third Twenty20 international, losing the match by 44 runs to lose the series 1-2 at the SSC Ground in Colombo on Friday. Asked to bowl, Bangladeshi bowlers failed to contain the Sri Lankan batters as Nilakshi de Silva ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh women’s team suffered a thrashing seven-wicket defeat against their Sri Lanka counterparts in the second game of the three-match Twenty20 International series at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo on Thursday. With the win, the home side levelled the series 1-1 as Bangladesh earned a six-wicket victory in the ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Babar Azam, the skipper of Pakistan’s cricket team, has expressed his aspirations to lead his team to victory in the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2023. Babar stated that his focus is now on winning the World Cup and he is determined and ambitious to achieve this goal and believes that it ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh one-day international skipper Tamim Iqbal expressed their eagerness to have their veteran campaigner Mahmudullah in the squad for the forthcoming ICC World Cup scheduled for October–November in India. Mahmudullah’s inclusion in the side came under scrutiny following his dismal performance in the three-match one-day international series against the touring England, ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza shocked the country’s cricket fraternity on Sunday by bowling off-spin instead of pace while playing for Legends of Rupganj in the ongoing Dhaka Premier League during their match against Abahani Limited at BKSP-3. The veteran pacer is the highest wicket-taker among all Bangladeshi pacers in ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com England’s leading female wicket-taker, Katherine Sciver-Brunt, has announced she has retired from international cricket. Arguably one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, Sciver-Brunt said that playing for England ‘saved her life’. Sciver-Brunt made her international debut in August 2004 and went on to collect 335 wickets in 267 appearances, ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com After securing a comfortable win in the fourth ODI against New Zealand in Karachi, Pakistan has attained the top spot in the ICC ODI rankings for the first time since the introduction of the official team ranking system by the ICC in 2005. Before the commencement of the five-match series against ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Rohit Sharma led Indian men’s cricket team has become the number 1 ranked Test team in the world, displacing Australia at the top of ICC’s Test ranking on Tuesday, May 2. In the latest released rankings by world cricket’s governing body, India moved past Australia with 121 rating points while Pat ... Read more

Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com Batting coach Jamie Siddons will not be working with the Bangladesh national cricket team anymore, the Australian confirmed through a Facebook post on Monday. However, Siddons, who will still be working for the Bangladesh Cricket Board, informed that his focus will now be developing players outside the national team. “I’m back ... Read more