Bangladesh Test and T20I captain Shakib Al Hasan was discharged from hospital and returned home yesterday. The cricketer had undergone immediate surgery on the injured little finger of his left hand upon returning from the UAE midway through the Asia Cup.

After his excellent performance at the Asia Cup 2018, Afghanistan spin sensation Rashid Khan has become the No.1-ranked all-rounder in one-day internationals toppling Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan in the ICC ODI rankings.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced the schedule for the first six rounds of the 20th National Cricket League, a first

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday announced the squad for the upcoming women's home series against Pakistan, which will comprise of four T20Is and a lone ODI.

After an agonising defeat in the final of the Asia Cup against India in UAE on Friday night, the Bangladesh cricket team returned home last night with heads held high.

There has been a lot of debate on social media and elsewhere regarding Liton Das's stumping by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Friday's Asia

Rubel Hossain is known for blowing hot and cold in a career spanning over a decade. Prone to err in the death overs, the right-arm pacer

Liton Das has been one of the more maligned junior national cricketers in Bangladesh, because the perception is that he was wasting his considerable talent with the bat.

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza had boldly stated prior the Asia Cup final against India that he was not so cheap that he would judge himself by a trophy.

Bangladesh began their journey in the 2018 Under-19 Asia Cup on the wrong foot, falling to a six-wicket defeat in their Group B encounter with Sri Lanka at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

The morning of September 29 must have broken with some harsh light for the Bangladesh cricketers in Dubai and their loyal fans back home.

There was only one thing that Bangladesh had wanted leading up to the final – top-order runs. Mashrafe Bin Mortaza took the highly irregular decision to open the batting with Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Liton Das, and the unlikely duo delivered with a 120-run opening stand after five matches where Bangladesh’s highest opening stand was 16.

Bangladesh Test and T20I captain Shakib Al Hasan is currently lying with his left arm in a sling in Apollo Hospital. By the time he had come back from the Asia Cup in the UAE on Wednesday, unable to even grip a bat after batting and bowling in four games, his left little finger had swollen to twice its size.

The target was just 223 for the vaunted Indian batting that has struck fear in the hearts of bowling line-ups the world over, but that it took them till the last ball of the 50th over to complete a three-wicket win in the Asia Cup final spoke volumes of the heart Bangladesh have shown throughout the tournament.

The Bangladesh women's cricket team will soon be back in business as Pakistan are set to arrive in Dhaka today to take part in a four-match T20I series and a lone ODI series.

As curtain of the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup rises in Bangladesh for the first time, the young Tigers will hope to put up a better show than they previously have when the eight nation tournament kicks off at four venues across the country today.

Unless you had your head buried in the Arabian Desert, you already knew who the big draws in the Asia Cup were. India bring in the big money with their advertisers and broadcast deals, and the Asian Cricket Council seemed to have designed the Asia Cup around the top-ranked ODI side's schedule and needs.

Liton Das and Soumya Sarkar typify the young Bangladesh batsman -- full of talent, but often prone to throwing away good starts. Yesterday in the Asia Cup, in different ways, they batted against type and took on responsibility -- Liton with a fabulous 121 and Soumya with a rearguard of 33 -- but it was the much-feted senior batsmen who seemed to have taken on the unwanted attributes of the much-maligned juniors.

Bangladesh go into the final against India without their two most important players in Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal – both having to leave the Asia Cup tournament due to injuries. However, the Tigers will be buoyed by the fact that they made the final despite losing Tamim after the very first game and also defeating Pakistan in a virtual semifinal without the world’s best all-rounder Shakib.

In a long and outstanding career as a fast bowler and the coveted captain of the national team, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has come close to winning a major tournament trophy but did not quite get his hands on a trophy even as the Tigers have won bilateral series home and abroad. The Tigers are once again faced with an opportunity to win a major trophy as they face India in the final of the Asia Cup.