The seventh match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 sees the Tigers face the non-fancy Afghans in what will be the opening hunt for our national team.

Down the track and boom! Tamim Iqbal's cross-batted smack against Zaheer Khan in 2007 still remains, arguably so, the most memorable cricket shot played by a Bangladeshi batsman in the World Cup

Even as Ireland were hunting down West Indies in Nelson, in a quiet corner of quiet Manuka Oval in quiet Canberra, Bangladesh were going through a three-hour intense training session. Bangladesh lost both their World Cup warm-up games, one of them to Ireland, and their first opponents in the tournament are Afghanistan, who beat them in the Asia Cup last March in the only previous ODI between the two sides.

Bangladesh receives the Dakota (DC-3) aircraft, which took part in the para drop operations in Tangail during the 1971 Liberation War, from Indian Air Force (IAF) today

Tamanna Khan of The Daily Star interviews Anisul Hoque, an eminent Bangladeshi author.

The atmosphere and hot weather in Adelaide gave it a perfect sub-continent flair and made it feel like a home away from home.

Bangladesh coach Chanidka Hathurusingha expects his ace allrounder Shakib to take a lead role in the World Cup. Shakib, who took part in the recently concluded Big Bash League, is arguably the most experienced cricketer in the side when it comes to playing in Australia.

“Right over here is William Harold Bill Ponsford, an Australian cricketer who is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket; Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400 runs in an innings,” an old man recited these words to a group of visitors as if he was reading from a book of verse.

The bowling combination will be finalised once the Tigers inspect the pitch at the Manuka Oval, where they face the Afghans on Wednesday. Rubel Hossain is most likely to open the bowling attack with captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and if the team feels the match needs an extra pacer they will include young Taskin Ahmed, who has been in good touch, in the side.

Robbers shoot eight fishermen in the Bay of Bengal, 50 kilometres off Rangabali of Patuakhali

ENOUGH has already been written, discussed and debated on the ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh, especially with regard to the usefulness of a meaningful dialogue between Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to resolve the crisis, albeit in the short term. However, all the unsolicited advice seems to have gone down the Buriganga, which is also as polluted as Bangladesh politics.

Six days into a group of civil society members proposed for holding a national dialogue to end the political standoff, the BNP says it would welcome such initiative

Bangladesh High Court asks government to take steps to stop violence in the name of hartal and blockade

Three crude bombs go off at Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka as BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown)

Bangladeshi ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan expresses hope that tigers will play with their fullest strength in the Cricket World Cup 2015

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reiterates her government's firm stance to take stern action against violence and killings of innocent people by BNP-Jamaat alliance in the name of an anti-government movement

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia should be charged with sedition for her ‘anti-state movement’, says Finance Minister AMA Muhith

A crude bomb goes off near the BGMEA Bhaban at Kawran Bazar in Dhaka where garments manufacturers have been holding a token hunger strike since this morning

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”

It's an occasion the city dwellers are relishing; albeit silently. When Anges, a Malaysian born Australian, knows what awaits the city in two months time even though the sport is not popular in her birthplace, then it is symptomatic that the cricket loving people in the country are all set to make the occasion their own.