A compromise that ended up making cricket the casualty
The 13th edition of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup has seen an unusual casualty list -- not of players, but of matches.
25 October 2025, 02:25 AM
A mismatch on paper: Will the India-Pakistan final follow a different script?
In just a few hours, India and Pakistan will meet again -- for the third time in this Asia Cup. The venue, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, and the day of the week, Sunday -- are the same as their two previous encounters during the group stage and the Super Four.
28 September 2025, 05:25 AM
Can Tigers benefit from the India-Pakistan final hype?
One glaring aspect of this Asia Cup -- and of most major cricket events, for that matter -- is the organisers’ relentless push to stage as many India-Pakistan clashes as possible.
25 September 2025, 05:05 AM
New-look sides, same old rivalry: Much-anticipated Ind vs Pak clash tonight
When India and Pakistan meet -- in any sport -- the stakes spill over into something more than just a game. It becomes a clash between neighbours bound by political tension, history, and deep mistrust.
14 September 2025, 02:30 AM
40 and still going strong: Ronaldo keeps proving age is just a number
Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer the winger who once tore down flanks with blistering pace. More than a decade ago, he reinvented himself into a different kind of player -- one who recognised that his body needed adaptation, transitioning from a dazzling winger to a prolific striker for a more sustainable and record-boosting career.
7 September 2025, 07:10 AM
From T20 to 50-over: Bulbul’s ambiguity continues
From claiming he was here to play a “T20 innings” as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president to announcing his intent to contest in the upcoming board elections yesterday, Aminul Islam Bulbul has remained consistent in one regard -- the ambiguity that often characterises the leadership positions in any line of work in the country.
3 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Fading ODI reputation reflecting major fall
When it comes to Bangladesh cricket, finding flaws and shortcomings through examining stats and figures is disconcertingly easy.
10 July 2025, 03:00 AM
25 years on, intent still missing
Come June 26, Bangladesh will be completing its 25 years in Test cricket.
22 June 2025, 02:30 AM
Rodri’s Ballon d’Or: Deserved or not?
Rodri becoming the first Manchester City player to win the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world on Monday did come as a surprise to many, and with ample reasons too as he pipped favourite Vinicius Junior of Real Madrid and Brazil to lift the most prestigious individual award in football.
30 October 2024, 01:00 AM
A lesson in how to extract Test wins
The Kanpur Test between hosts India and Bangladesh could be considered a reference point for teams in terms of how to force victories in the longest format of the game -- an aspect that teams lean towards more nowadays, especially since the introduction of the World Test Championship (WTC).
1 October 2024, 18:01 PM
The good and the bad omens for Bangladesh ahead of Kanpur Test
There are some positive signs and a few ill omens for Bangladesh ahead of their second and final Test against hosts India, beginning tomorrow in Kanpur.
26 September 2024, 01:37 AM
CR7: A GOAT whose hunger knows no bounds
If there is one thing that Cristiano Ronaldo could not master in his illustrious career, it is the concept of giving up.
7 September 2024, 02:00 AM
A tournament too far for Ronaldo!
Portugal will remember the Euro 2024 as another golden opportunity squandered to get silverware with arguably one of the most talented bunch of footballers, but for their captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, the tournament will remain as a case of whether the 39-year-old forward has stretched his international career one tournament too long.
7 July 2024, 02:00 AM
Will Bangladesh openers finally open up?
While batting as a whole has been a big concern for Bangladesh in white-ball cricket recently, it is the opening conundrum that has bugged the Tigers most in the ongoing T20 World Cup.
22 June 2024, 05:14 AM
Impactful Sakib needs to carry on
It was an easy presumption to put Bangladesh’s bowling as their main weapon ahead of the T20 World Cup, especially since the batters have provided very little to be excited about in recent times.
20 June 2024, 05:00 AM
A typical Pakistan conundrum
As it so often happens in major ICC events, Pakistan have very little in their hands regarding the prospect of advancing in the ongoing T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies. And, as always, it is mostly a making of their own.
11 June 2024, 01:00 AM
Why hasn't the World Cup fever taken over yet?
We are on to the fifth day of the ongoing T20 World Cup and it still does not seem like the ninth edition of the mega event, being held in the USA and the West Indies, is being able to hook cricket lovers.
6 June 2024, 07:48 AM
Real did what Real do best: Win
“When you don’t kill Real Madrid, Real Madrid kill you,” Xavi Hernandez, who had to come up against Real Madrid a number of times in his career both as a Barcelona player and manager, had said just last year.
2 June 2024, 18:30 PM
Real Madrid against the world!
Come June 1, when Real Madrid players line up for the UEFA Champions League’s grand finale at the iconic Wembley Stadium, they will not only be up against the yellow army of Borussia Dortmund but against the entire footballing world -- and there are ample reasons for that.
31 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Will this time be any different?
A peek at the recent form of most of the cricket-playing nations might just be enough to give you an idea as to how they could fare at a particular event.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
‘20 runs short’, or ‘momentum gained’: Which cliche will Tigers use today?
Journos who cover Bangladesh men’s cricket team matches have a pretty good idea as to what the Tigers may say following any particular game.
25 May 2024, 01:30 AM
Smug Shakib, clueless Bangladesh
Could the Tigers spiral down further? The omens would suggest a very bleak answer for fans of a cricket-crazy nation.
25 May 2024, 01:00 AM
A fan turns unlikely hero
Two years back, when Real Madrid had defied the odds almost in each of the knockout rounds to be in Paris for the Champions League final against Liverpool, Joselu was just another face amid the thousands cheering for Los Blancos and watching them win the most elite European competition for a record 14th time.
9 May 2024, 16:00 PM
The Mourinho case in changing landscape of football
“I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects,” Mourinho said it back in 2010 when he was announced as the manager of Real Madrid.
17 February 2024, 01:30 AM
Tossing away BPL’s charm
The combined uncertainty and the thrill of not knowing the outcome beforehand is what usually pulls and hooks spectators to a sporting event. But as far as the outcome is concerned, the ongoing 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is anything but irregular.
25 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Walks in and takes a wicket, did Mashrafe expose BPL’s true stature?
Durdanto Dhaka pacer Shoriful Islam's maiden T20 hattrick, teams comfortably posting and chasing totals over 150, and the crowd coming in numbers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur -- the opening day of the 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) had events aplenty to hook the cricket lovers.
20 January 2024, 05:39 AM
Carrying the same old headache into 2024
“At the beginning of the series, we spoke about what we have done before and that we want to do better than that. So, in that sense, I think this is a very successful tour,” Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha reflected on how it went for the Tigers in their final series of 2023.
1 January 2024, 02:30 AM
Moving on to right path finally?
If Bangladesh are not to not find sombre answers to this then they might need to act on what Pothas said, especially on the part where he mentioned "leaving the team alone" in order to let the players keep on "just playing".
29 December 2023, 01:00 AM