New Zealand know all about the challenge that awaits them in Sharjah on Tuesday at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, when they will take on the reigning champions Australia.

T20 cricket is big in India and IPL, India’s T20 franchise league, is the most-successful around the world. Yet, India are a scary good Test team just because of its pool of players and because the seriousness around Test cricket has been ingrained.

Ireland captain Paul Stirling led from the front with a dashing 88 as his side completed their ODI series against South Africa with a convincing 69-run win in the final match in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

In the last six years, captains have come and gone, players have been swapped and changed, multiple coaches have had a crack, but Bangladesh’s fate in T20Is has more or less remained the same.

Masood's brilliant 151 was his first hundred for four years, while Shafique also returned to form with 102 as the pair put on a solid 253-run stand for the second wicket after Pakistan won the toss and batted.

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Faruque Ahmed expressed his hope that Shakib Al Hasan will be able to retire from Test cricket during the two-match Test series against South Africa at home later this month.

Captain Shan Masood scored his first century in four years to lift Pakistan to 233-1 at tea on the opening day of the first Test against England on Monday.

Sanath Jayasuriya was appointed Sri Lanka cricket head coach on Monday, replacing Chris Silverwood who quit following the country's early exit from the T20 World Cup.

Pakistan captain Shan Masood won the toss and chose to bat on the opening day of the first Test against England in Multan on Monday.

"We just tried to back our skills and what we decided in the team meeting, we just walked the talk," said Suryakumar.

When Shanto was asked in the press conference whether the brand of cricket Bangladesh play is not good enough, he said: “I won’t say it is bad, but I think we are a better team than this. We have not been doing well in this format for a while but I don’t believe we are this bad.”

Pakistan play England in a three-Test series starting Monday in Multan with the visitors favourites to inflict more damage on a team mired in a painful losing streak..England's 3-0 whitewash on their last trip to Pakistan in 2022 was the first clean sweep by any visiting team to the countr

The streets of the Shankargarh village area were packed with incoming traffic at 5:00 PM, some two hours before the first T20I between India and Bangladesh yesterday. There was tight security but that hardly dampened the fans’ excitement for the game in Gwalior, where international cricket had returned after 14 years.

Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto rued poor planning and not putting enough runs on the board after getting drubbed by India by seven wickets in the first T20I of the three-match series at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium in Gwalior yesterday.

India produced a solid all-round display to beat Pakistan in Dubai in a big-stakes encounter at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 on Sunday.

Bangladesh were bowled out for 127 in 19.5 overs after being asked to bat first.

South Africa captain Temba Bavuma will miss the third and final one-day international against Ireland in Abu Dhabi on Monday and is a doubt to lead the Test team on a two-match tour of Bangladesh that starts on Oct. 21.

Shivam Dube has been ruled out for the entire series due to a back injury. Tilak Varma has been called up as his replacement.

The 33-year-old needs just 71 more to overhaul Cook's 12,472, and if his run spree continues he may become the new record-holder in the match starting on Monday in Multan.

Bangladesh are dealing with a few unknown factors ahead of the first T20I against India at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium in Gwalior. The Tigers will be part of history as the venue hosts its first international match today, scheduled to begin at 7:30 Bangladesh time..The l