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Spirited by a remarkable fight back that salvaged the first Test match, Bangladesh are looking forward to leap one more step to clinch the match and the series as they meet Pakistan in the second Test in Mirpur on Wednesday. Players enjoyed two days of rest to fill their gas ahead of the crucial Test match ... Read more

Pakistan must win against Bangladesh in the second and final Test to retain its current position in ICC Test team rankings, the International Cricket Council said on Monday. Despite being unable to beat Bangladesh in the first Test in Khulna Pakistan moved up in the ladder to third position with 103 points thanks to England’s five-wicket ... Read more

Pakistani leg-spinner Yasir Shah said on Monday that he missed off-spinner Saeed Ajmal in the drawn first of two-match Test series against Bangladesh in Khulna. Yasir and left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar operated the slow-bowling artillery of the visitors in Khulna but failed to make an impression, especially in the second innings when Bangladesh made 555-6. Ajmal has

Indian national cricket team arrives on June 7 to play three one-day internationals and a Test match against Bangladesh, announced Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday. The series will start with the lone Test match to be played at Fatullah from June 10-14. Following the Test match, Tigers will lock-horn with the visitors for the three day-night ODIs–all ... Read more

Selectors have retained an unchanged squad for the second and final Test against Pakistan, beginning at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Wednesday. The Tigers returned to Dhaka on Sunday after a creditable draw in the first Test in southern city of Khulna which kept Pakistan still in search of their maiden win in the ... Read more

Islami Bank East Zone held their nerves under pressure to race to a thrilling three-wicket win over Walton Central Zone in the second round Bangladesh Cricket League in Chittagong on Saturday. Set a target of 224 runs in just 31 overs on the fourth and final day, East Zone overcame dramatic late collapse to reach 227-7 ... Read more

Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan and Pakistani paceman Wahab Riaz were fined 30 per cent of their match fees on Sunday for breaching code of conduct during their drawn first Test in Khulna. The duo was found guilty for an incident happened in the 118th over of Bangladesh’s second innings when the two players unnecessarily halted ... Read more

Opener Tamim Iqbal has come of his age by hitting career-best 206 runs to help Bangladesh earn their maiden draw against Pakistan in the opening Test match of two-match Test series at Khulna on Saturday. Tamim danced down the wicket against Junaid Khan to whack a six straight over his head bringing his double hundred that ... Read more

Bangladesh openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes put up record-breaking 312 runs in their second innings opening-stand against Pakistan that left the visitors awe-struck in the opening Test match of the two-match Test series at Khulna. They broke the highest opening pair stand in the second innings of the Test history, surpassing England’s Colin Cowdrey and ... Read more

Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq said on Saturday that Bangladeshi openers changed the course of the game altogether in their first Test match at Khulna. Any hope Pakistan had for quick kill after 296 runs first innings lead was dealt in ruthless manner as Tamim and Imrul race to 273-0 on the fourth day to slice through the ... Read more

Walton Central Zone finished on 212-5 at the end of the third day against Islami Bank East Zone to take their second innings lead to 90 runs in their Bangladesh Cricket League match at Fatullah on Saturday. The day belonged to the left arm Spinner Elias Sunny who picked up seven wickets for 124 runs to ... Read more

Bangladesh overtook Pakistan in the ICC one-day international rankings to claim the eighth position after the world cricket’s governing body completed the annual update on Thursday. The updated rankings saw West Indies and Bangladesh have equal 88 points but the Tigers are lagging behind only by a fraction. Pakistan, who lost all three ODIs to Bangladesh in ... Read more

Pakistan opener Mohammad Hafeez hit a career best 224 to put tourists in a commanding position against Bangladesh in the opening of the two-match Test series at Khulna on Thursday. Pakistan piled up a mammoth 537 for 5 at stumps on the third day of the first Test in reply to Tigers 332 to take a ... Read more

Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim admitted on Thursday that Bangladesh were far from winning the first Test match against Pakistan at Khulna and instead the hosts are now focusing for a draw. ‘We are quite far from winning this game,’ Mushfiq told reporters. ‘We have to think about the draw ‘, said the captain. ‘We are behind by ... Read more

The reason for Pakistan’s dominant batting display in the ongoing Test match against Bangladesh was because the visitors succeeded in attacking the hosts’ main bowler Sakib al Hasan, said Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez on Thursday. Hafeez, resuming on 137, stroked a masterful maiden double-hundred to help the tourists get a grip over the hosts inside three ... Read more

Walton Central Zone were all out for 179 in their first innings against Islami Bank East Zone in the second match of Bangladesh Cricket League in Chittagong on Thursday. Asked to bat first, the Walton outfit found themselves in a precarious position of 4-23 and lost another wicket at 57 to stare at a two-digit score. However, ... Read more

A brilliant century from Mohammad Hafeez helped Pakistan going into a strong position against Bangladesh on the second day of first Test match after the hosts batting collapsed at Khulna on Wednesday. Bangladesh were shot down to 332, after resuming on 236-4 before Hafeez’s unbeaten 137 runs guided tourists to 227-1 when the stumps were drawn, ... Read more

Lackluster batting and even poorer efforts during the fielding on second day of the first Test match let Bangladesh suffer and took away the advantage they gained on the first day against Pakistan at Khulna on Wednesday. Mohammad Hafeez rubbed salt on their wound by providing them some lessons of batsmanship which they appeared to have ... Read more

Crisis of tickets at fair price frustrated large number of cricket fans who demonstrated on Wednesday outside Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, the international venue where the first Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan is being held. Tickets were found being sold in black-market outside the venue at higher price but no action was seen taken neither by ... Read more