Bangladesh got off to a winning start in the five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe on Friday, as the Tigers began ramping up preparations for the forthcoming T20 World Cup with wins under their belt.

Bangladesh were keeping an eye on two players who would have key roles in bolstering the World Cup squad. Mohammad Saifuddin’s three wickets and Tanzid Hasan’s debut fifty against Zimbabwe during the eight-wicket win in the first T20I in Chattogram on Friday would reassure the team management ahead of the T20 World Cup in June.

Abahani batters Liton Das and Towhid Hridoy adopted vastly contrasting approaches while chasing a meagre 179-run total in their five-wicket win over Prime Bank Cricket Club in the Super League of the ongoing Dhaka Premier League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday.

Prime Bank’s Tamim Iqbal struck an 83-ball 65 while in-form opener Parvez Hossain struck his third DPL ton this season, notching a 111-ball 110. Shabbir Rahman struck 39 as well but after the 122-run opening stand and the 96-run third-wicket stand, wickets fell regularly as Prime Bank managed 279 all out.

Towhid Hridoy earned a maiden call-up to the Bangladesh Test side as the young batter replaces experienced campaigner Mushfiqur Rahim in the squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka which will begin at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Friday. 

Bangladesh will be keen on picking up where they left off in the first ODI against Sri Lanka and bag a victory in today’s second ODI against Sri Lanka to emphatically seal the series with a match in hand at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

After losing to Sri Lanka in the T20I series, Bangladesh are eager to reply in kind in the ODI series, beginning from March 13 in Chattogram.

Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the third T20I against Sri Lanka in Sylhet on Saturday.

The Sri Lanka team pulled out a ‘timed out’ celebration following their 28-run series-winning victory against Bangladesh in the third and final T20I at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. The visitors celebrated by pointing their fingers on their wrists referring to Angelo Matthews’ timed out dismissal against Bangladesh in the 2023 World Cup in India. Bangladesh-Sri Lanka encounters have brought out feisty contests in the recent past and tensions spilled over on Saturday as well when Towhid Hridoy got into an altercation with the Sri Lanka team after his dismissal.

Bangladesh national team had a rest day yesterday following their three-run defeat in the first T20I on Monday. 

‘You couldn’t hit one boundary!’. In the 2022 BPL final, Towhid Hridoy of the Fortune Barishal was on strike against Comilla Victorians pacer Shohidul Islam for the last three balls of the match with his side seven runs away from victory.

Liton categorised his partnership with Towhid against Rangpur as the best in his career.

It was a dream come true moment for Towhid Hridoy who smashed his maiden T20 hundred helping Comilla Victorians to a four-wicket win over Durdanto Dhaka in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in Mirpur on Friday.  

Comilla Victorians batter Towhid Hridoy smashed the first century of the ongoing edition of the Bangladesh Premier League to guide his side to a four-wicket win over bottom-placed Durdanto Dhaka in Mirpur on Friday.

Fortune Barishal’s Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Comilla Victorians’ batter Towhid Hridoy had a hearty exchange and shared some light moments while crossing paths during the day’s training session.

Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy feels the team have been in a good place since the end of the World Cup and they would want to continue the good work in the last match of the New Zealand tour and beyond.

East Zone's top-order batter Amite Hasan notched up his seventh first-class ton on Day 4 of his side's Bangladesh Cricket League 2023-24 encounter against South Zone at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Riding on Hridoy’s 132 off 138 balls, North ended the day on 236 for eight, in reply to Central’s first-innings total of 281.

“Personally, I feel it was 100 percent fair and we all were in agreement to take the wicket. Because it’s in the rules,” Towhid told reporters on Monday night

While top teams, especially the ones who have been successful in this World Cup so far, seem to have proper clarity over their game plan, Bangladesh have looked drab and confused in formulating strategies in the mega event in India.