England will use the Test series in Bangladesh to solve selection issues and prepare for the potentially tougher series they face over the coming months.

Being a wicketkeeper is a pretty hard ask in cricket. It is a thankless job, and very often a keeper only gets noticed when he makes a mistake like dropping a crucial catch or missing a stumping chance.

Miracles can happen. But the harsh reality is real and it's totally and completely under someone's control. Bangladesh head coach

Look ahead to Tuesday's Champions League action as champions Real Madrid go on the goal trail against minnows Legia Warsaw.

England captain Alastair Cook will link with up with the England squad in Bangladesh on Monday after attending the birth of his second child.

Steven Finn, the England pacer, takes stock of the trying conditions in Bangladesh, after sweating it out and bowling 16 overs across the two tour games against the hosts in Chittagong.

England’s final dress rehearsal for the first Test against Bangladesh on Thursday ended with a draw in the second two-day tour match against BCB XI as Tanveer Haider picked up four wickets.

Wily Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah wishes a Test face off with magician Indian offie Ravichandaran Ashwin in a battle of two fast wicket-taking spinners.

Two days before the start of the ODI series against England, Abdul Mazid, as part of the Dhaka Division team, had just finished a National Cricket League four-dayer against Khulna Division. He had scored 96 in his only first-class outing in this rain-marred season.

Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha sought to clear the air yesterday about the discussion surrounding fast bowler Taskin Ahmed's Test prospects by saying that it was he who insisted upon Taskin's inclusion in the two-day warm-up between BCB XI and England XI.

Newcomers Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Nurul Hasan and Kamrul Islam Rabbi and all-rounder Sabbir Rahman earn their places in the 14-man squad for the first Test match against England at MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong due to begin on October 20, Thursday.

Heightened security measures around high-profile sporting events could become the norm, according to the England and Wales Cricket Board's respected security advisor Reg Dickason.

Abdul Mazid retires hurt just eight runs short of his 100 in the warm-up match between England XI and BCB Xahead of Thursday's first Test between England and Bangladesh.

BCB XI opener Abdul Mazid returns to the crease to complete a blistering hundred in the warm-up match against England XI ahead of Thursday's first Test between England and Bangladesh

This Bangladesh series is perfect preparation for India. But if England are to have any chance of winning in India then they have to beat Bangladesh comprehensively over the next two Tests to lift confidence levels.

England was hopeful captain Alastair Cook will return to lead the side in time for the first Test against Bangladesh next week, quick Stuart Broad says.

The move from ODI cricket to Test cricket is a jarring one if just the technical and mental adjustments required are considered. It is all the more jarring when that move is made by a team that last collectively stepped out in whites around 15 months ago and one that has won only seven out of 93 matches since their elevation to the highest level.

Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha and chief selector Minhajul Abedin all but rule out Taskin Ahmed's chances of a Test debut against England.

England will travel to Germany for a friendly international in Dortmund on March 22, the Football Association announced Friday.

A young cricketer comes to the surface, plays a series of phenomenal knocks, is the talk of the town and the love of the media and the nation, but all of a sudden fades away after a rather short period of time.