Abdullah Al Mehdi

Bangladesh had complete control of things early on in the do-or-die match for India during the second T20I at Rajkot’s Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium yesterday.

Mahmudullah Riyad and Co will be desperate to continue turning the tide of close defeats against India when Bangladesh take the field today for the second T20I of the three-match series with a cyclone threat looming over the game in Rajkot. Having had so many close encounters against India, Mahmudullah was keen to clinch a series against their Asian rivals on their home soil.

A vibrant Bangladesh team have the chance to continue their momentum and clinch their first ever T20I series win over India when they take on the hosts in the second T20I at Rajkot’s Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium today even as the threat of cyclone ‘Maha’ looms on the horizon.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That is pretty much the outlook for the Bangladesh team, who conquered the smog and a strong Indian outfit in Delhi only to find themselves going into a cyclonic storm named Maha, expected to make landfall between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Bangladesh’s first ever T20I win over India showcased a different brand of thinking by the team’s think tank with the motto being fearless cricket, as Mushfiqur Rahim had declared during the press conference following the game.

Newly-appointed T20I captain Mahmudullah Riyad marshalled his charges well as Bangladesh curtailed India’s stroke-makers early on, but the skipper will be ruing the late power-hitting which allowed the hosts to reach 148 for six at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi in the first of the three-match series yesterday.

After two weeks of terrible blows to Bangladesh cricket’s psyche, Mushfiqur Rahm’s unbeaten knock of 60 -- one that gave the Tigers their first T20I win against the mighty India -- came as a sort of deliverance to the team’s morale.

Bangladesh will have to battle both India and the suffocating New Delhi smog when they take on the hosts in the first game of the three-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium today. The match is scheduled to begin at 7:00pm local time (7:30pm BST).

“I don’t think it [captaincy in a tough period] is a burden. I am not thinking in that manner. I think it’s a great opportunity for me to lead the side,” Bangladesh’s newly-appointed T20I captain Mahmudullah Riyad said during a press conference yesterday on the eve of Bangladesh’s first T20I against India in Delhi.

When the announcement came that the plane was preparing to land, this reporter looked through the window hoping to catch a bird’s-eye view of Delhi. For a while, nothing except a white veil was visible. A few moments passed before trees, fields and tall buildings came into view. But it was still difficult to tell and as the aircraft got closer to the ground, the reporters onboard finally saw what the Delhi smog really is.

Ten-pin bowling, a sport where the player rolls a ball down a wooden lane to try to topple the 10 pins at the other end, is not well-known in Bangladesh sporting circles and those who recognise it, most probably know it from Western culture.

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The recent history of the Bangladesh cricket team’s fast bowling unit is a topsy-turvy one. In an era where the general quality of fast bowling is rising, the national team is not only lagging behind international standards but appears to be relatively ‘out of ideas’ when

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The Bangladesh cricket team arrived in Dhaka yesterday after their 3-0 whitewash by Sri Lanka in the ODI series. A few of the players looked understandably dejected or just lost in their own thoughts and neither interim manager Khaled Mahmud nor the players talked

All the signs pointed towards an Australia-India final but it was not to be as the World Cup decided to break millions of hearts while energizing millions of others. This is because no matter the outcome of the final tomorrow, this World Cup will see a newly crowned champion in either

We were promised a World Cup of runs. Glittering and charismatic batsmen showing the full array of their shots on docile wickets where 350-400 totals were to be the norm. The bowlers just mere sheep to be reared; going in through one end and coming out empty; without lustre.

In the end it was an easy seven-wicket victory for the Tigers against the West Indies that keeps them in contention for something significant at this World Cup after an amalgamation of improvement in every cricketing department.

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At the Kennington Oval in London May 25th -- exactly four days ahead of the 2019 Cricket World Cup – India were bowled out for just 179 runs in 39.2 overs and New Zealand chased down the target easily in a warm-up match. The conditions were conducive to swing and India struggled to adjust to a pitch