"Although this edition has just started, I can see the urge from the curators to prepare sporting tracks which is a positive sign."

Harry Brook has withdrawn from England's squad for their tour of India due to personal reasons, the country's cricket board (ECB) said on Sunday.

Australian cricketer Alex Ross has just come to the BPL after playing the Big Bash League with Sydney Thunder. While he played alongside David Warner and Alex Hales in the Big Bash on January 14, franchise cricket's demand brought him to Bangladesh for the first time yesterday, and he will have to quickly adjust to new conditions and gel with new teammates.

Pakistan captain Shaheen Shah Afridi said it was "very important" his team avoided a whitewash series loss to New Zealand after winning the fifth and final Twenty20 International by 42 runs on Sunday.

The tourists lost the five-match series 4-1 but it ended on a positive note as they dismissed the Black Caps for a paltry 92 in defence of 134-8.

West Indies, a team that once possessed the fiercest pace quartet in cricket -- Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft -- now rarely field three genuine quicks in an eleven, a fact that greatly pains Caribbean fast bowling legend Sir Curtly Ambrose.

The fact that Tamim Iqbal, a day before Bangladesh Premier League’s new season began, had expressed his willingness to talk to Shakib Al Hasan made yesterday’s fixture between Fortune Barishal and Rangpur Riders a highly anticipated one.

Corporate behemoth Tata Group has again been awarded title sponsorship rights of the Indian Premier League for five years, for a record sum of $300 million, the national cricket board said Saturday.

Rangpur Riders all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan will leave for Singapore tomorrow to see an ophthalmologist as he continued to feel discomfort in his eyes, the team’s director Shanian Tanim confirmed to the Daily Star today. 

Off-spinner Nahidul Islam starred with four wickets to help set up his side’s first victory of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League 2024 with a four-wicket win over Chattogram Challengers in Mirpur on Saturday. 

Bangladesh Under-19s were bundled out for 167 runs in reply to India’s 251 for seven. 

Fast-bowling great Ambrose, who is currently in Dhaka working as a commentator in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), gave a positive nod when he was asked whether he would want to work with the Bangladesh team. 

Here are some moments captured from the match by The Daily Star’s photographer, Firoz Ahmed.

Shakib Al Hasan made two runs with the bat for Rangpur and picked up the wickets of Ibrahim Zadran and Mushfiqur Rahim

Mohammad Imran Junior set the tone of the innings in the very first ball, when he rattled the stumps of Brandon King with an in-swinging yorker.

Malik announced his wedding with Sana amidst the rumours of his separation with Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.

The last time Bangladesh and India faced off in a Youth ODI in South Africa was in the final of the 2020 ICC U19 World Cup

This is the first time Shakib and Tamim will be facing off on the cricket field since their public falling out before last year’s ICC ODI World Cup.

“I didn’t sleep for last two days,” Najibullah said in the post-match presentation ceremony

Smith made 12 and 11 not out as an opener in the first Test against West Indies, which Australia won inside seven sessions