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Pakistan may boycott next year’s World Twenty20 if India fail to play a proposed series with them this year, reports BBC. The arch-rivals have yet to agree the first of six proposed series between 2015 and 2023. Talks were disrupted after far-right Hindu nationalists attacked Board of Control for Cricket in India offices, protesting against games with Pakistan. The Pakistan ...

It won’t be a surprise if the Bangladesh women’s cricket team up their training intensity by a few degrees from today onwards, for in a month’s time Shakib Al Hasan and his wife Umme Ahmed Shishir are expected to be proud parents of a baby girl. Another special all-rounder in the making? One can never rule out that idea. But ...

 In the bid to revive cricket in Chittagong, Tamim Iqbal has announced that he will organise age-group tournaments in the region for the next three years. He is one of the last international cricketers to hail from the south-eastern division that was once considered the second-most important cricket hub in Bangladesh. Tamim said that the lack of quality among Chittagong ...

Younis Khan surpassed the record for most runs for Pakistan in test cricket during the first match against England in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, overtaking Javed Miandad’s previous mark of 8,832 runs. The 37-year-old Younis overhauled the record in his 102nd match, taking 22 fewer than Miandad to set the mark. Younis needed 19 runs to surpass Miandad, doing so ...

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent Shahadat Hossain, a suspended national player, to jail rejecting his bail plea in a case filed for torturing his domestic help, says news agency UNB. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Kazi Kamrul Hossain passed the order after officer-in-charge of Mirpur Model police station Shafiqur Rahman, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Shahadat before the ...

England completed the perfect 10 wins from 10 in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with an easy victory in Lithuania, reports BBC. Manager Roy Hodgson fielded an England team with an experimental look – but it still had far too much class for the very limited Lithuanians, whose manager Igoris Pankratjevas resigned immediately after the match. Ross Barkley’s deflected shot ...

Russia and Slovakia clinched qualification for Euro 2016 on Monday as reigning continental champions Spain and England both ended their campaigns with victories. Russia’s turnaround in form under Leonid Slutsky continued as they beat Montenegro 2-0 in Moscow to take the second automatic qualifying spot in Group G behind Austria and condemn Sweden to a play-off. The veteran right-back Oleg ...

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza arrived in her hometown Hyderabad in the wee hours of Monday after winning the China Open 2015 with her doubles partner Martina Hingis. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair bounced back brilliantly from their first-set defeat to claim a 6-7 (9-11), 6-1, 10-8 win over the Taiwanese pair of Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan in the ...

England’s batting consultant Mahela Jayawardene urged his new charges to keep things simple while countering Pakistani spinners and tough conditions in the three-match Test series starting in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The 38-year-old former Sri Lankan captain was hired to fast track England’s preparation for the challenging series. Jayawardene said he was sharing his experience in the sub-continent, boasting of ...

Bangladesh on Monday promised Australia the top-level security and is now anxiously waiting for the Australian response to end the ongoing confusion regarding the arrival of Australia cricket team for the two-Test series in October. Visiting Cricket Australia anti-corruption and security officer Sean Carroll spent a busy day on Monday holding series of meetings with security officials and top authority ...