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Sri Lanka’s cricket board and two senior players were locked in a war of words Wednesday, a day after the World Cup-winning Twenty20 team returned home as national heroes. Former skippers Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara sparked the row by criticising cricket officials during a red-carpet reception at the airport, but the board hit back with ... Read more

The venues scheduled to host the second phase of the Bangladesh Premier League will be decided in an emergency executive committee meeting of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday. The BFF’s professional league committee deferred the decision to Saturday after failing to come to a decision in its meeting on Wednesday amid a heated exchange

Sri Lanka prepared to throw its biggest party since the end of the country’s ethnic conflict after beating India in the final of cricket’s World T20 tournament, officials said Monday. Cricket officials said arrangements were being made for a ticker-tape parade in central Colombo on Tuesday after an outpouring of jubilation in a

Sri Lanka’s stunning victory over India in the World Twenty20 final underlines how success in hit-and-run cricket depends not on form, but on how a team performs over those three hours in the field. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Indians went into Sunday’s final in Dhaka as the only unbeaten team in the tournament, having coasted through four ... Read more

Bangladesh women’s cricket team skipper Salma Khatun achieved double success on Tuesday when she touched the summit in the Twenty20 bowling ranking and earned a place in the women’s team of the just-concluded ICC World Twenty20 tournament. Salma moved up two places to number one position

Now that the dust has settled on Sri Lanka’s maiden World Twenty20 triumph in Bangladesh, leg-spinners across the world can raise a toast to a craft that shone against a barrage of power-hitting over the past three weeks. Modern powerful bats, field restrictions and the brevity of the format instilled fears in many minds that Twenty20 ... Read more

Kumar Sangakkara is not someone who often shows his emotion in a cricket match, regardless of its circumstance or significance. Throughout his long journey in international cricket, hardly anyone can remember a day when he allowed emotions to get the better of himself. But during the ICC World Twenty20 2014 final on Sunday, even a man ... Read more

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday admitted that they lost the final of the ICC World Twenty20 2014 against Sri Lanka due to their last four overs of batting but refrained from putting the blame entirely on the shoulders of Yuvraj Singh. Sri Lanka gave away only 19 runs in the last four

Australia furthered their dominance in women’s cricket as skipper Meg Lanning and Sarah Coyte along with an all-round performance from Ellyse Perry scripted their hat-trick of ICC World Twenty20 titles through a six-wicket win over England at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday. Australia were the pre-tournament favourites and they lived up to the

What exactly Steve Waugh said to Herschelle Gibbs in that 1999 afternoon still remains unresolved. In an article in 2010, Gibbs claimed he never heard Waugh saying those words and a year later in his autobiography ‘Out of My Comfort Zone’, Waugh recalled the memoire saying ‘I hope you realise that you have just lost the ... Read more

The Australian women’s cricket team are on cloud nine after clinching their third straight title in the ICC World Twenty20 against England on Sunday as it helped them to erase some of their pains in the recent Ashes loss. In a repeat of the 2012 World T20 final, Australia dominated in all the three departments to ... Read more

India and Sri Lanka will face off in an intriguing all-Asian final in the ICC World Twenty20 today, hoping to create a slice of history that would carry the legacy of a generation of some champions from either side. With plenty to achieve for both the Asian powerhouses, the game is expected to be a battle ... Read more

There are still some debates in India over who is the best cricket captain the country have ever had. Not in a very distant past Saurav Ganguly was ahead simply because he had transformed the attitude of the side. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has the chance put an end to the debate forever when he will lead ... Read more

Sri Lanka are looking to end their long stay in Bangladesh on a high note by clinching the eluded ICC World Twenty20 title as they prepare to face India today in the final at Mirpur. Sri Lanka arrived in Bangladesh long before the start of the ICC World T20 2014 to take part in a bilateral ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan remained adamant about bringing certain changes in the national team set-up in the wake of a dismal performance in the ICC World Twenty20. Nazmul said they have sought a report from coach Shane Jurgensen and captain Mushfiqur Rahim, which will be evaluated at the BCB’s next meeting and action will ... Read more

The second phase of the Bangladesh Premier League will began from April 15, the official of the Bangladesh Football Federation said on Saturday. The BFF professional football league committee at a meeting on Saturday decided that they will start the home and away basis phase three days

The Indian batsmen rose to the occasion and displayed some timely magic to lead the side to a six-wicket win over South Africa in Dhaka on Friday and in the process set up an all-Asian affair in the final of the ICC World Twenty20. Virat Kohli slammed an unbeaten 72 off 44 balls as India successfully ... Read more

A lack of discipline with the ball condemned South Africa to yet another knock-out match loss in a major ICC tournament on Friday as the Proteas bowled a number of loose deliveries at a potent Indian batting line-up. Defending 172, the South African bowlers left the ball outside off-stump far too frequently and gifted the Indians ... Read more