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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

Pakistan opener Mohammad Hafeez continued his rich vein of form in Test cricket by hitting his third hundred in consecutive Test in Khulna on Wednesday. The right-hander hit an unbeaten 137 to put Pakistan in a strong position on the second day of the first Test against Bangladesh. Hafeez has now become the sixth Pakistani batsmen to ... Read more

Left-hander Mominul Haque’s half-century guided Bangladesh to 236-4 against Pakistan at the close of opening day’s play of the first Test at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on Tuesday. Mominul scored 80 runs from 162 balls before he was dismissed in the last over and the stumps on the first day were drawn immediately ... Read more

Batsman Mominul Haque displayed his class and temperament once again when he led Bangladesh’s batting charge in the first Test against Pakistan on Sunday. Benched in the one-day series and left out from Twenty20 International, Mominul returned to his groove in the Test and made an instant impact to score 80 off 162 balls. His exploits led ... Read more

The Bangladesh Cricket Board was successful in its last-ditch attempt to add decision review system in the two-match Test series against Pakistan that started in Khulna on Tuesday. Initially there was no plan for DRS in the Test series but the BCB said it had initiated the move on the night just after the three-match one-day ... Read more

Bangladesh believe they were not defensive when they took the field on the opening day of the first Test match against Pakistan despite making a slow progress to reach 236-4 at the close in Khulna on Tuesday. The Tigers came into this game with promise of playing attacking cricket but the team that they selected for ... Read more

A confident-looking Bangladesh are eying to make another historical effort when they take on beleaguered Pakistan in the opening Test match at Khulna today. Bangladesh outclassed their heavyweight opponents by earning a clean sweep in the three-match one-day internationals that began through their first win over the rivals in 16 years. They followed it with their first ... Read more

Bangladesh will look to play their natural attacking game instead of playing defensively for a draw, Test skipper Mushfiqur Rahim promised on Monday. The Tigers will seek their maiden Test win over Pakistan when they take on the visitors in the first of the two Tests at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna from today. Mushfiqur, who ... Read more

Bangladesh will have the psychological edge over the Pakistanis after their swashbuckling show in run up to the Test series, said coach Chandika Hathurusinghe ahead the first Test, beginning at Khulna today. The Tigers will go into the series aiming improve their underwhelming Test record after just seven wins in 14 years, seven of which came ... Read more