'All’s well that ends well': Is it the case for Tigers after Zim series?
Bangladesh turned things around in the Test series against Zimbabwe, winning the second and final Test by a resounding margin of an innings and 106 runs in Chattogram yesterday.
1 May 2025, 03:30 AM
Stumped by the system
Every year, the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) begins with unwavering commitments from authorities to make it even more competitive than the previous years.
11 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh batting stuck in archaic groove
“Ben Duckett cost them [England] the game… scored too slow, mate… they should have got to at least 380,” former South Africa batter Herschelle Gibbs said about Duckett’s innings after England lost their Champions Trophy opener against Australia in Lahore last Saturday, despite posting 351 for eight -- the highest total in the competition’s history -- only for Australia to chase it down with five wickets and 15 balls to spare.
26 February 2025, 21:14 PM
Sehwag’s humiliating remarks a grim reality for Tigers?
The greatest stages produce the greatest heroes.
22 February 2025, 02:00 AM
IND v PAK: A rivalry that goes way beyond cricket
When the Prime Minister of a nation makes a serious statement about sports, it is clear that the underlying causes go beyond the game itself -- that the tension arises from something much larger on a broader scale.
19 February 2025, 04:00 AM
Contrasting LaLiga scenes in 2024, what next?
Last season, around this time, there was a surprise package in Girona in the top three of LaLiga. However, a year later, the Spanish league has returned to the status quo, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid -- the three giants of Spain -- occupying the top three spots on the table at the end of 2024.
11 January 2025, 01:30 AM
Pacers lead Tigers to best-ever WTC
The 101-run win over hosts West Indies in the second and final Test in Jamaica on Tuesday was the fitting way for Bangladesh to close out the 2023-2025 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle -- the best one the Tigers experienced to date.
4 December 2024, 18:30 PM
‘Big Five’ not in picture, but what about persisting mediocrity?
Bangladesh cricket is set to get a glimpse of a new era in Tests when they take on hosts West Indies in the first of the two World Test Championship (WTC) fixtures from November 22 in Antigua.
20 November 2024, 02:30 AM
Real Madrid against the world!
Come June 1, when Real Madrid players line up for the UEFA Champions League’s grand finale at the iconic Wembley Stadium, they will not only be up against the yellow army of Borussia Dortmund but against the entire footballing world -- and there are ample reasons for that.
31 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Will this time be any different?
A peek at the recent form of most of the cricket-playing nations might just be enough to give you an idea as to how they could fare at a particular event.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
‘20 runs short’, or ‘momentum gained’: Which cliche will Tigers use today?
Journos who cover Bangladesh men’s cricket team matches have a pretty good idea as to what the Tigers may say following any particular game.
25 May 2024, 01:30 AM
Smug Shakib, clueless Bangladesh
Could the Tigers spiral down further? The omens would suggest a very bleak answer for fans of a cricket-crazy nation.
25 May 2024, 01:00 AM
A fan turns unlikely hero
Two years back, when Real Madrid had defied the odds almost in each of the knockout rounds to be in Paris for the Champions League final against Liverpool, Joselu was just another face amid the thousands cheering for Los Blancos and watching them win the most elite European competition for a record 14th time.
9 May 2024, 16:00 PM
The Mourinho case in changing landscape of football
“I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects,” Mourinho said it back in 2010 when he was announced as the manager of Real Madrid.
17 February 2024, 01:30 AM
Tossing away BPL’s charm
The combined uncertainty and the thrill of not knowing the outcome beforehand is what usually pulls and hooks spectators to a sporting event. But as far as the outcome is concerned, the ongoing 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is anything but irregular.
25 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Walks in and takes a wicket, did Mashrafe expose BPL’s true stature?
Durdanto Dhaka pacer Shoriful Islam's maiden T20 hattrick, teams comfortably posting and chasing totals over 150, and the crowd coming in numbers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur -- the opening day of the 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) had events aplenty to hook the cricket lovers.
20 January 2024, 05:39 AM
Carrying the same old headache into 2024
“At the beginning of the series, we spoke about what we have done before and that we want to do better than that. So, in that sense, I think this is a very successful tour,” Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha reflected on how it went for the Tigers in their final series of 2023.
1 January 2024, 02:30 AM
Moving on to right path finally?
If Bangladesh are not to not find sombre answers to this then they might need to act on what Pothas said, especially on the part where he mentioned "leaving the team alone" in order to let the players keep on "just playing".
29 December 2023, 01:00 AM
Girona arrive, but the challenge is to stay
Who would win LaLiga 2023-24?
22 December 2023, 19:00 PM
A fixer-upper with no fix in sight
An act of publicly taking the blame and responsibility, an initiation or indication of setting in motion an overhaul, or a statement of how things are to be taken from here on -- none of the aforementioned measures or steps were taken by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) even as over a fortnight passed since Bangladesh closed their disastrous World Cup campaign.
28 November 2023, 01:00 AM
Is the outrage and the extent of it justified?
It was an anticlimactic finish to the 2023 World Cup for arguably the largest cricketing fanbase -- India fans -- as they saw the best team on paper tumbling at the final hurdle only for Australia to clinch their sixth title last week.
25 November 2023, 01:05 AM
Kohli show to go on
It was inevitable.
More than it being a question of if, it was rather a debate over how and when.
16 November 2023, 18:00 PM
A reluctant captain at the centre of mess
From aspirations of making it to their maiden semifinal to barely qualifying for the 2025 Champions Trophy with an eighth-placed finish, Bangladesh’s World Cup dream has fluctuated as wildly as its tumultuous state of affairs.
14 November 2023, 01:30 AM
An outcome befitting the approach
What’s the trademark of a big team in modern cricket?
19 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Ability to score 300-plus to define Ind-Ban game?
Bangladesh will take on India at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, a venue where 300-plus scores are the order of the day.
19 October 2023, 04:53 AM
That’s the way to chase
“I did not do anything special,” Mohammad Rizwan said after guiding Pakistan to a record World Cup run-chase against Sri Lanka in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
11 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Shakib’s toughest test yet
Four years back, the country’s top all-rounder, Shakib Al Hasan, was engulfed by the type of pressure that all athletes feel at least once in their careers: the pressure of not performing on the field.
6 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Will sense dawn after the ‘reality check’?
Having gone into the Asia Cup with lofty dreams, as it so often is the case with Bangladesh despite no history of success in major tournaments, skipper Shakib Al Hasan has already put it in the rearview mirror.
11 September 2023, 02:00 AM