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Sri Lanka continued its domination and appeared to bat Bangladesh out of the series opening Test, thanks to a resolute batting of skipper Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis on Sunday at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Both of them scored 102 in Sri Lanka’s first innings and it looked they started from where they left in the previous innings, as ...

Star Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant returned to action as Punjab Kings (PBKS) beat Delhi Capitals (DC) by four wickets in their opening encounter of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season on Saturday. Pant, injured in a car accident in December 2022, marked his return to high-profile cricket by leading out the Capitals. He scored 18 off 13 balls in his ...

Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman returned figures of 4-29 to set up a six-wicket win for defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the IPL opener against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Friday. Hosts Chennai kept Bengaluru down to 173-6, a total their batsmen overhauled in 18.4 overs at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, AFP reports. Shivam Dube, who hit 34, and fellow ...

Bangladesh could not hold the day with good spirits till the end as they lost three quick wickets within 31 runs, still falling behind 248 runs. The Tigers finished the day with 32/3 playing 10 overs of the last session after they bundled Sri Lanka out for 280 runs at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain ...

England World Cup winner Liam Plunkett says cricket superstars such as Virat Kohli and Babar Azam can help bolster the game in the United States when it hosts the T20 World Cup. The Twenty20 showpiece, which starts on June 1, is being jointly staged by the United States and the West Indies. It will be the first major international cricket ...

The first of the two-match Test series between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is all set to commence today at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet. Both hosts and guests are confident of a good start despite injury concerns. The match will begin at 10:00 am (BST). Following an ODI series win by a 2-1 margin against Sri Lanka, the ...

Bangladesh are keen to continue their upsurge in longer version format when they take on Sri Lanka in the two-match Test series opener at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium tomorrow (Friday). The match starts at 10 AM. The two sides had already completed the white ball cricket with Sri Lanka winning the T20 series by 2-1 and Bangladesh clinching ODI series ...

Bangladesh national football team will face strong Palestine in their away group match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifiers scheduled to be held on early Friday (March 22) at Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait. The match kicks off at 12.30 am as per Bangladesh time. Before the Palestine match, Bangladesh skipper Jamal Bhuyan through a video message on(Wednesday ...

Mustafizur Rahman has left Dhaka for India to participate in the new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). This year, he will represent the Chennai Super Kings. “Excited and looking forward to my new assignment. Heading to Chennai for IPL 2024. Keep me in your prayers so that I can deliver my best,” Mustafizur wrote on his social media page ...

Australia have called off a T20 series against Afghanistan citing a deteriorating human rights situation for women and girls in the Taliban-ruled country, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Tuesday. Australia withdrew from a one-day series scheduled for March last year in the United Arab Emirates after the Taliban imposed strict restrictions on Afghan women, including banning them from attending universities, ...