The keeper-batter fractured his right thumb during the third ODI against Sri Lanka.

The ninth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup begins on June 1, 2024 and will be played across the USA and West Indies.

Australia withdrew from a one-day series scheduled for March last year in the United Arab Emirates after the Taliban imposed strict restrictions on Afghan women, including banning them from attending universities.

This will be Mustafizur's seventh IPL season.

Pandya has been out of action since last October after suffering an ankle injury during a 50-overs World Cup match in Pune.

Imad played a starring role in helping Islamabad United to a third Pakistan Super League (PSL) title on Monday, with the 35-year-old picking up a five-wicket haul to help restrict Multan Sultans to 159-9 and then returning later in the match to guide the run chase home with an unbeaten 19.

"It is a great series win for us," said Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan, going on to praise the performance of his young side.

His batting exploits, which first came into focus in the preceding Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka, where he smashed 53 off 30 balls in the third match, has gone largely unnoticed in the domestic circuit, simply because he hardly ever breaks into the playing eleven.

Islamabad bagged the PSL title for a record third time.

Bangladesh snapped out of their losing streak when they clinched their first bilateral ODI series in 10 months with a series-clinching four-wicket win in their third and final ODI against Sri Lanka in Chattogram yesterday. A century, a collision while fielding, a concussion substitute, a whirlwind innings, and a petty act of dragging the past -- the final match of the three-match series had produced a number of memorable moments.

Bangladesh went into this white-ball home series against Sri Lanka with an agenda of improving their all-round performance, especially considering the sub-par campaign the Tigers endured in the ODI World Cup in 2023.

Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga came out of Test retirement and was named in the squad for the two-match Test series against Bangladesh.

Rishad’s grooming will depend on how much patience the team management can show towards him, Habibul Bashar said.

Sri Lanka’s assistant coach Naveed Nawaz said he was surprised at Soumya Sarker being replaced through a concussion substitution in Bangladesh’s four-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the series-deciding third ODI in Chattogram on Monday. 

Two of the three Dhaka Premier League fixtures churned out thrillers on Monday.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated the Bangladesh national cricket team for winning a three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka

Bangladesh veteran Mushfiqur Rahim added further fuel to the Bangladesh-Sri Lanka rivalry as he re-enacted Angelo Matthews’ timed out dismissal when the Tigers celebrated a 2-1 ODI series win over the Lankans in Chattogram on Monday. 

“I think on a wicket like this the bowlers showed a lot of character," Shanto said.

Pacer Nahid Rana received his maiden call-up as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member squad for the first of the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka starting on Friday at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet.

Tanzid, who came in as a concussion substitute for Soumya Sarkar, hit a eye-catching 84 off 81 balls with the help of nine fours and four sixes in the third ODI against Sri Lanka.