“We got dismissed playing rash shots,” said a remorseful Joy at the end-of-day press conference yesterday.

Joy is now batting on 42 and he is accompanied in the middle by Mominul Haque, who is unbeaten on three.

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.

“Personally, I feel that I have the ability to lead the team in all formats,” Shanto said in the pre-match press conference in Sylhet today

At the grandest stage of men's cricket, the Tigers missed an opportunity to leave a mark, precisely when the country is divided on many issues.

Another Sorry display with the bat saw Bangladesh get bundled out for 204 after opting to bat first against Pakistan in their ICC World Cup encounter at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Tuesday.  

Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha was expected to erect a plan that would streamline a path for the Tigers to reach their dream semifinal in the ongoing ICC World Cup when he was reappointed to the helm for a second time in January.

Bangladesh team reached Kolkata yesterday after their hopes of a semifinals berth in ICC World Cup was all but dashed in Mumbai following a crushing 149-run defeat against South Africa.

But despite the fifties from the two openers, Bangladesh failed to capitalise and eventually managed to post a below-par total of 256 for 9 in 50 overs on a batting friendly Pune pitch which India comfortably by chased down in a seven-wicket win, courtesy of Virat Kohli’s 48th ODI century. 

We can confidently hope that our cricketers don’t quite participate in the same mental gymnastics that keep fans like us on a knife’s edge during any Bangladesh-India match, there is something to be said about the collective national approach of facing India in a cricket match.

If you had been following the reports from local media leading up to the match, you most likely would have presumed that this was the result of spinners once again ruling the roost in Chennai.

In September, tickets were going for as much as 55 lakh rupees in the secondary market.

Like the familiar waves of the Bay of Bengal at the edge of the city of Chennai, the 22 yards inside the Chidambaram Stadium could give the Bangladesh team a sense of familiarity. The pitches here assist the spinners

Can Bangladesh come out and find themselves somewhere close to the semi final spots?

With no direct flights available to Dharamshala from Dhaka, this reporter and a colleague from the office had no other choice but to take a flight to Delhi on October 6 and then go to Dharamshala by road.

The first cricket World Cup of the 2020s has to be the one where Bangladesh cricket finally reaches maturity.

All participants in the 2023 World Cup in India are well aware that in big events, teams tackle the conditions just as much as they play their opponents and the pressure posed by the competition.

You reach a consensus, perhaps to the tune of “they will get blown away this year” or, at the other end of the spectrum, “they’re playing well, they might just conjure something”. And then the Tigers do the opposite.

The all-rounder, during the second part of his interview with T Sports, said that he saw for the first time in his life that a captain announced his retirement after playing the first game of a series.

Bangladesh's in-form top-order batter Najmul Hossain Shanto said that the players still have the same dream as before regarding the World Cup, contradicting the views of head coach Chandika Hathurusingha.