Bangladesh pace star Marufa Akter bagged a last-over hattrick in the women's Dhaka Premier League for BKSP against Mohammedan Sporting today but it was not enough to win the game as the table toppers roped to a 72-run win at BKSP ground four.

Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto was disappointed with the way things turned out against USA in the second T20I at Prairie View Complex in Houston on Tuesday as the Tigers suffered their second defeat in the series to lose the series 2-0.

Bangladesh suffered yet another humiliating defeat as hosts USA made history by clinching their maiden T20I series against a Test-playing nation with a six-run win over the Tigers in the second T20I in Houston on Thursday.

Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto had blamed the wickets back home during the Zimbabwe series for their disastrous five-wicket loss in the first of the three T20Is against USA on Tuesday. BCB director and chairman of BCB’s HP unit Naimur Rahman Durjoy however rejected the idea that wickets were to blame.

Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup preparations got off to the worst possible start as the Tigers suffered a five-wicket defeat against USA in the first-match of a three-match T20I series at Prairie Park Cricket Complex in Texas yesterday.

Bangladesh announced a 15-man squad for the forthcoming ICC T20 World Cup yesterday with Taskin Ahmed’s appointment as vice-captain and all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin’s omission being the biggest highlights.

Bangladesh had just lost the fifth and final T20I at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium by eight wickets and as soon as the presentation ceremony had ended, media personnel at the ground were surprised to see Shakib Al Hasan batting at the centre wicket nets.

Bangladesh had to dig deep to eke out a five-run slender victory in their fourth of the five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. 

Soumya Sarkar had a different gear to his batting today on his return to the squad for the last two games of the Zimbabwe T20I series. He was content on playing second fiddle to other opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim and not only did it help the team’s cause but it allowed him to get in to score an important 41 for the side as Bangladesh won by five runs in the second T20I.

Bangladesh overcame late pressure from Zimbabwe tail-enders to secure a nine-run win in the third T20I in Chattogram’s Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Tuesday to clinch the five-match T20I series 3-0.

Bangladesh made a meal out of a regulation chase to register a six-wicket win and take a 2-0 lead in their second match of the five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Powered by a fifty on debut from young opener Tanzid Tamim, Bangladesh romped to an eight-wicket victory against Zimbabwe in the rain-interrupted first of the five-match T20I series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Heavy rain caused the first Twenty20 international between Pakistan and New Zealand to be abandoned after just two deliveries in Rawalpindi on Thursday.

The BCB has named star allrounder Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh’s ODI captain for the upcoming Asia Cup and 50-over World Cup .

“Maturity doesn’t mean age; it means sensitivity, manners and how you react.”

England captain Joe Root became his country’s leading run-scorer across all international formats before India’s Mohammed Shami dismissed Jonny Bairstow with what became the last ball before Tea on the opening day of the first Test at Trent Bridge on Wednesday.

Bangladesh bowlers maintained their stranglehold over the Australian batsmen and executed their plans with clarity and ease after Australia opted to bat first at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur after facing a 23-run defeat in the first game in which they had elected to field first.

Chattogram Abahani survived a late scare against Uttar Baridhara Club before handing them a 4-3 defeat in a thrilling encounter of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) at Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium yesterday.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury informed that the board is still awaiting a decision regarding England’s upcoming tour of the country after reports emerged that the tour has been ‘postponed indefinitely’.

The Bangladesh national team are about to venture into a hectic schedule of international fixtures as they prepare to participate in the five-match T20I series against Australia in the span of only eight days, starting from August 3.