Bangladesh all-rounder Mehedi Hasan Miraz has jumped up three places in the Test all-rounder’s rankings after the first Test against West Indies and is jointly third in the rankings alongside Shakib Al Hasan.

Bangladesh women’s team recorded their biggest win by runs in the one-day format when they outplayed Ireland by 154 runs in the first WODI of the three-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka today.

Sharmin Akhter narrowly missed out on a maiden ODI century but her career-best 96 off 89 balls powered the Bangladesh women’s team to their highest ever total in ODIs, 252-4, against Ireland in the first ODI of the three-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka today.

Bangladesh pacer Tanzim Sakib earned the distinction of claiming the first ever wicket in Global Super League (GSL) and played his part with the ball in Guyana Amazon Warriors’ six-wicket win over Lahore Qalandars in the opening match of GSL at the Providence Stadium in Guyana today.

Head coach Brendon McCullum says New Zealand wickets will be better suited to England's aggressive brand of cricket, dubbed "Bazball", after his side were crushed in the final two Tests in Pakistan on turning tracks.

A clean sweep of the two-match series against Sri Lanka, which starts at Kingsmead on Wednesday, and the two tests with Pakistan from Dec 26, would put South Africa into June’s final at Lord’s.

Hughes, who played 26 Tests, died from bleeding on the brain after he was hit by a rising ball during a domestic match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in November 2014.

This week, what Yashasvi Jaiswal did at Perth and what the Bangladesh batters failed to do in Antigua could be enough to realise why the two countries are on opposite sides of the spectrum in Test cricket.

Bangladesh women’s team will focus more on playing match by match rather than concentrating on direct qualification to the upcoming World Cup when they take on their Irish counterparts in the opening WODI of the three-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur today.

Head coach Rajin Saleh represented Sylhet for nearly 20 years but never won the NCL as a player.

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.

West Indies drew first blood, winning the first Test in Antigua today by 201 runs and Bangladesh stand-in captain Mehedi Hasan Miraz felt that the game slipped away from them during the West Indies first innings when the hosts recovered from seven down for 261 to post 450. 

Earlier this month, the ICC informed the Pakistan Cricket Board that India would not tour Pakistan for the eight-team tournament, leaving the fate of the event hanging in the balance.

Bangladesh were bundled out for 132 in pursuit of 334 in their second innings as the West Indies seized the initiative and cruised to a 201-run win in the first Test of the two-match series at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Tuesday.

The world's richest cricket competition is expected to be played between March and May next year.

Pakistan needed 18.2 overs to score 148-0 and ensure victory after Zimbabwe, who won the toss and chose to bat, were bowled out for 145 in 32.3 overs.

India coach Gautam Gambhir has flown home from Australia for "personal reasons" but will rejoin the team in time for the second Test in Adelaide next week, a source told AFP Tuesday.

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.

Dreams have come early for cricket-mad Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the shy schoolboy aged 13 who is the youngest player in Indian Premier League history.

Uncapped New Zealander Bevon Jacobs thought he was being pranked when he woke on Tuesday to a glut of messages congratulating him on being signed by Indian Premier League (IPL) side Mumbai Indians.