While walking off the ground after the post-match presentation for the third ODI between Bangladesh and the West Indies on Thursday, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Aminul Islam Bulbul jokingly told the media personnel present there, "You can't call it a paddy field today."

You’ve probably seen that image: an elephant, a fish, and a monkey all told to climb a tree. It’s often used to show how the education system unfairly judges everyone by the same test, leaving some to shine and others to feel inadequate. The image makes its point perfectly. But its lesson shouldn’t stop at the classroom door.

The 27th edition of the National Cricket League’s (NCL) four-day format will get underway tomorrow across three cities and four venues in the country. As in previous editions, a total of eight teams will feature in the 2025-26 season of the prestigious domestic first-class competition.

A sense of disbelief was palpable at the press box at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur after Bangladesh openers Soumya Sarkar and Saif Hassan unleashed a batting carnage against the West Indies in the series-deciding third ODI yesterday.

West Indies head coach Daren Sammy admitted that Bangladesh outplayed his side in all three departments, resulting in their 2-1 series defeat in the three-match ODI series in Mirpur.

Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz said that he has been getting advice from former captains Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Tamim Iqbal during his captaincy stint.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) may be moving away from the policy of having three separate captains for three formats, the board president Aminul Islam Bulbul hinted today.

Bangladesh sealed a 2-1 series victory over the West Indies with a commanding 179-run win in the third and final ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.

A composed 74 from Matt Short and a maiden half-century by Cooper Connolly steered Australia to a two-wicket win over India on Thursday, sealing the three-match one-day series with a game to go.

Regular skipper Litton Das has returned to lead Bangladesh as the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday announced a 15-member squad for the opening two T20 Internationals against West Indies.

Bangladesh ended their streak of four consecutive ODI series defeats in emphatic fashion

Indian cricket authorities have petitioned the country's top court to make match-fixing a criminal offence in a bid to ramp up the pressure on illegal bookmakers and bent players.

South Africa beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the second Test in Rawalpindi on Thursday to draw the series 1-1 with Simon Harmer taking a maiden five-wicket haul.

Soumya Sarkar and Saif Hassan put on a show in the opening partnership in Bangladesh’s third ODI against West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.

Bangladesh posted 296 for 8 in the series-deciding third and final ODI against West Indies in Mirpur on Thursday, thanks largely to the Soumya-Sarkar-Saif Hassan opening stand of 176 off just 152 deliveries.

Babar Azam was Thursday recalled to Pakistan's Twenty20 international squad for two home series, nearly a year after the batsman was axed.

A pitch darker than my future, and offering sharper turn than an Agatha Christie thriller, greeted the West Indies at Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium for yet another all-important bilateral three-match ODI series.

After falling into the spin trap they had laid themselves in the second ODI, Bangladesh are heading into today's third and final match of the series against the West Indies short of confidence as the visitors have seemingly cracked the code on how to win in the Mirpur turner.

Bangladesh T20I skipper Litton Das is expected to return to competitive cricket through the upcoming three-match T20I series against the West Indies, scheduled to begin on October 27 in Chattogram.

There were concerns over the first division league taking place after various clubs had wanted to boycott the leagues over circumstances related to BCB elections. The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) held a meeting primarily with First Division clubs and CCDM chairman Adnan Rahman Dipon later informed that the meeting’s results were positive and the situation over clubs’ participation was set to be solved.