Sri Lanka have the mental edge over the Tigers ahead of the first T20 against Bangladesh tomorrow and their T20 skipper Upul Tharanga suggests that they are looking to keep the momentum going.

Soumya Sarkar's inclusion for the first match of the two-T20I series against Sri Lanka was an obvious one given his track record in the

If a Test match is expected to be a lively and engaging affair, the first day of the second Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in

After a bat-dominated draw in the first Test in Chittagong, the question ahead of the second Test against Sri Lanka starting today in

A second innings debacle once again haunted Bangladesh as the Tigers did exactly what Sri Lanka would have been hoping for by

Roshen Silva, playing in just his second Test match allows Sri Lanka to stretch their strong reply despite the fall of Kusal Mendis and De Silva.

The fixation with bowling left-arm bowlers to right-handed batsmen and vice-versa comes back to haunt the Tigers on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said on Friday that he has not seen a commotion such as the one in Bangladesh anywhere else in the world following the retirement of a player from T20 cricket.

According to Test captain Mushfiqur Rahim, the Sri Lanka tour was testament to the fact that Tigers are making real progress in the longest format of the game.

Bangladesh ODI skipper Mashrafe Mortaza expresses that he would have been more satisfied had his team won the one-day series 2-0 against Sri Lanka after the Tigers arrived home from a month-long series today.

Asanka Gurusinha, Cricket Manager of the Sri Lankan team threw light on the positive attitude of the Bangladeshi cricketers after the tourists won the second Twenty20 international in Colombo by 45-runs to level the series.

The name Arjuna Ranatunga will forever bring one image to the mind's eye: gliding Glenn McGrath to the third man boundary to bring up the winning runs of the 1996 World Cup, before running to Aravinda de Silva for an embrace to rejoice the fulfilment of a pipedream.

Soumya Sarkar was batting like a man possessed.

It is now becoming quite routine that in a momentous victory, Shakib Al Hasan is one the best performers.

Bangladesh have shared the Test series against Sri Lanka. They also shared the ODI series against the Lankans. Today the Tigers will get an opportunity to make it truly a shared series on the Lankan soil provided that they show tenacity in the second and final T20 international at the R Premadasa Stadium.

With the gloom surrounding Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's retirement from T20Is hanging over today's second T20I against Sri Lanka, the man took it upon himself to ensure that it does not overshadow the match and that it inspires the team to come up with a rare T20I win to leave Sri Lanka with squared series in all formats of the game.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said yesterday that the board knew that Mashrafe Bin Mortaza would step down from the captaincy of the T20I side, but not that he would retire from the format altogether.

As successful as this tour of Sri Lanka by the Bangladesh cricket team has been, it has also been one marred by off-field controversies and more than a little cloak-and-dagger.

Sri Lanka has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate against Bangladesh during the first Twenty20 International in Colombo on Tuesday.

Most other players would have thought that speaking on their retirement once in the day was enough.