ICC pre-seeds, surprises unfold
24 February 2026, 09:00 AM
Ahead of every major sporting event, analysts, ex-players and fans alike come up with predictions about how the tournament will pan out. Debates rage over which team will get knocked out early, who will proceed to the next phase and, eventually, who will lift the trophy.
24 February 2026, 09:00 AM
No upsets, but plenty of heart
19 February 2026, 08:30 AM
Going solely by outcomes, International Cricket Council’s (ICC’s) dream of globalising the game through T20Is has taken a hit so far in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup, with Associate nations seemingly regressing, reaching a low they have not experienced in over a decade.
19 February 2026, 08:30 AM
India-Pakistan: An illusion of a rivalry
17 February 2026, 08:30 AM
When was the last time you were ripped off? Getting ripped off is pretty much a universal human experience. Kids get tricked into buying shiny toys that break down in the first try, adults get talked into investing in a pyramid scheme and lose their savings, and the elderly get duped into buying a supposed all-curing cream from online, which ends up giving them rashes.
17 February 2026, 08:30 AM
Will politics spill onto the pitch again?
14 February 2026, 08:00 AM
After an eventful buildup, ripe with cricketing diplomacy and wider geopolitical implications, perennial enemies India and Pakistan are set to face off in Colombo in their Group A match of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup tomorrow.
14 February 2026, 08:00 AM
The price of belling the cat
7 February 2026, 07:30 AM
Politics has always been an inseparable part of cricket. It has been so since the days of the Imperial Cricket Council – the previous name of the International Cricket Council – when being a member of the Commonwealth was one of the prerequisites for becoming a Test nation.
7 February 2026, 07:30 AM
No ban, no boycott, still no World Cup
27 January 2026, 08:30 AM
If international sports can be equated as pseudo-battles between two competing nations, mega sporting events like a World Cup or the Olympics can be thought of as an all-out war with honour at stake.
27 January 2026, 08:30 AM
Three weeks, many narratives
20 January 2026, 08:00 AM
A little over three weeks into the talks between the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) regarding the former’s request to relocate Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup matches from India, where do both parties stand?
20 January 2026, 08:00 AM
A look back at 2025 / The year Hamza and football came home
31 December 2025, 01:45 AM
In 2025, Bangladesh witnessed a dramatic homecoming -- one that, even a few years back, few believed would be possible.
31 December 2025, 01:45 AM
Saudi Arabia’s $500m takeover of cricket and its many implications
The Saudis are not just trying to enter the cricket market, they want to establish a new T20 circuit of cricket with them at the helm of it.
29 March 2025, 04:00 AM
A legacy of retirement limbo in Bangladesh cricket
“I have decided to quit cricket as a mark of protest against a group of people in the Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] who do not want to see me in the squad.”
15 March 2025, 02:00 AM
Calling it a day the Australian way
Yesterday, another modern-day Australian great called time on his ODI career a day after he top-scored for his side but could not deliver what was expected off of him.
6 March 2025, 02:00 AM
Afghanistan put on a ‘tamasha’ to remember
But the thousands that were present at the Gaddafi Stadium and the millions who tuned in from around the globe to watch the Group B encounter between Afghanistan and England on Thursday, witnessed an absolute cricketing ‘tamasha’ in the truest sense.
28 February 2025, 01:00 AM
Lacklustre present and a bleak future
Bangladesh losing convincingly to India and New Zealand and being out of contention for a spot in the semi-final in the ICC Champions Trophy may seem like the worst thing about the team’s ongoing campaign in Pakistan and the UAE, but it’s not.
25 February 2025, 18:30 PM
A familiar script of face-saving heroics
After getting dismissed as the last Bangladesh batter in their ICC Champions Trophy opener against India in Dubai yesterday, centurion Towhid Hridoy limped back to the dressing room, with shoulders slumped and a pained expression etched across his face -- a wounded soldier who knew his resilience and determination were not enough to lift Bangladesh out of trouble.
20 February 2025, 18:05 PM
Bangladesh in global events: A history of mediocrity
Bangladesh’s relationship with the ICC Champions Trophy has been paradoxical from the get-go.
19 February 2025, 06:00 AM
A ‘Mini World Cup’ with big implications for Bangladesh
“Though the Bangladeshi team was not allowed to take part, the population reacted with enormous enthusiasm to the biggest sporting event -- some said the most positive event of any kind--in the country’s short, fraught, history.”
14 February 2025, 15:00 PM
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
How many people are watching the ongoing 11th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is a difficult question to answer.
1 February 2025, 03:00 AM
The ‘insult’ of Dhaka clubs and the reality of Bangladesh cricket
The Marylebone Cricket Club's (MCC) status as the most famous and influential cricket club in the world is one of the few undisputed facts in the game's storied history.
21 January 2025, 03:00 AM
The indelible legacy of Tamim Iqbal
Tamim had a chance to rewrite the ending by taking part in the ICC Champions Trophy, starting next month, but eventually chose not to.
12 January 2025, 02:00 AM
Hopes of ‘better future’ exposes bitter truths
“I only get Tk 3000 as allowance per month apart from accommodation and food in the national camp. They are giving me an additional Tk 2000 as house rent since I got married… There is no future playing for the national team,” Bangladesh’s star archer Ruman Sana said to The Daily Star in March last year, explaining why he no longer wants to play for the national team.
4 January 2025, 03:00 AM
A year of contrasts in Bangladesh cricket
As for the year that is winding down, it was neither an overarching triumph nor a debilitating failure. The stench of mediocrity was present, but so was vivacious tenacity. Above all, it was an interesting year in cricket for Bangladesh -- one that fans would not forget soon.
28 December 2024, 02:10 AM
A year of chaos and clean sweeps in Tests
The chaotic results column is overall a good sign for Test cricket.
24 December 2024, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh’s pace assembly line now up and running
Chances of Taskin Ahmed waking up super early in St Kitts, take time out of his preparation for the first ODI against West Indies to watch the final of the Under-19 Asia Cup in the UAE yesterday are quite slim.
9 December 2024, 01:30 AM
Nahid Rana: A golden goose worth taking care of
One of Aesop's renowned fables, 'The goose that laid the golden egg', imparts a timeless lesson: too much greed can ruin one's fortune. It also highlights the value of patience -- a virtue the Bangladesh Cricket Board could embrace to nurture the immense potential of one of their brightest prospects, Nahid Rana.
4 December 2024, 02:00 AM
IPL snub a reminder of Bangladesh’s talent drought
A total of 1574 players had registered for the players auction of the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL). From there, 574 got shortlisted by the 10 teams to go under the hammer, of which 208 were from overseas, 12 of which were uncapped cricketers and only one of them was from New Zealand, a 22-year-old middle-order batter named Bevon Jacobs.
27 November 2024, 01:00 AM
Tigers' ambition falls flat in execution
When stand-in skipper Mehedi Hasan Miraz made the shocking call of announcing an overnight declaration in the first innings in the Antigua Test even though the Tigers were still trailing by 181 runs, it didn’t make as much of a splash as it perhaps should have.
26 November 2024, 12:08 PM
Captain Miraz’s all-round test in Antigua
Not often can a cricketer boast reaching a milestone just by stepping onto the field. But on Friday, all-rounder Mehedi Hasan Miraz reached not one but two significant career milestones when he went out for the toss ahead of the first of the two Tests against West Indies in Antigua.
22 November 2024, 18:15 PM
Sports Adviser’s mild wake-up call for Faruque and Co
Yesterday, the most important figure in the country’s sports administration at the moment, youth and sports Adviser Asif Mahmud, openly spoke about the ‘haphazard’ manner in which the top brass of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), headed by president Faruque Ahmed, is running its operation -- a scenario that was technically impossible even a few months back.
18 November 2024, 01:30 AM