The New Zealand cricket team arrived in Dhaka yesterday to participate against Bangladesh in a bilateral five-match T20I series starting from September 1 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

Defending champions Bashundhara Kings retained the title of Bangladesh Premier League after handing a 2-0 defeat to three-time champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

Batsmen on both sides are set to face a stiff examination when an England team without Ben Stokes face India in the first Test in Nottingham starting on Wednesday.

From a potential batting collapse to winning the game by 155 runs, Bangladesh scripted an applaudable turnaround in the first ODI against Zimbabwe in Harare on Friday. To get the desired outcome, there were a number of boxes that the Tigers had to tick but a few others were still unmarked. Here, we look at both:

Bangladesh proved to be vastly superior to Zimbabwe as the hosts faced a comprehensive 155-run defeat after Liton Das struck a brilliant century to help the Tigers in taking the first foot forward in the first of the three-match ODI series in Harare yesterday.

A few aspects of Bangladesh’s cricket will be put to test when they begin the important three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe, part of the ICC ODI Super League, today at the Harare Sports Club Ground.

Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal expressed consternation regarding the delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe’s squad ahead of the three-match ODI series during an online press conference on the eve of the first ODI yesterday.

Bangladesh had a good outing in the 50-over warm-up game yesterday, looking comfortable as they posted 296 for six against Zimbabwe Select XI ahead of the first ODI of the three-match series tomorrow.

Off-spinner Mehedi Hasan Miraz took the best match figures for a Bangladesh bowler overseas to help dismiss Zimbabwe for 256 and see his side to a 220-run win on the fifth day of the only Test at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday.

Eoin Morgan took time out from quarantine to praise the "incredible" efforts of a completely changed England side after they clinched a one-day international series win over Pakistan with a commanding 52-run victory at Lord's on Saturday

Mehedi Hasan Miraz bagged his second five-wicket haul abroad and Shakib Al Hasan picked up four as Bangladesh took a big first-innings lead against Zimbabwe, who lost their last five wickets in just 15 runs on the third day of the lone Test at the Harare Sports Club Ground yesterday.

Mahmudullah Riyad’s Test career might be seeing a reversal of fortunes after a determined century against Zimbabwe was instrumental to Bangladesh being able to reverse their own fate in the ongoing one-off Test at Harare.

In the second day, Bangladesh made a dramatic comeback riding on Mahmudullah Riyad’s magnificent unbeaten century and Taskin Ahmed’s maiden Test fifty where the pair added a record 191 runs in the ninth-wicket stand against Zimbabwe in the lone Test at the Harare Sports Club Ground yesterday.

When the elated, exhausted Italians stepped up to face the cameras following their exhilarating Euro 2020 semi-final penalty shootout win over Spain, the same word kept coming up.

Nine regular batsmen, three of whom are all-rounders, and two frontline pacers -- that's how Bangladesh lined up for their one-off Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club today. Despite Bangladesh's well-known penchant for making nonsensical decisions, this unusual approach to a Test match by the Tigers' team management still raised many eyebrows on the opening day of the game. 

Followed by recent times' dismal performances in the longest format of the game, Bangladesh will be desperate to return to winning ways against host Zimbabwe as the Tigers begin their African safari today with the one-off Test match at the Harare Sports Club Ground.

'To win a Test match, you need to pick up twenty wickets' is a common cricketing phrase and perhaps Bangladesh's biggest challenge in the lone Test match against Zimbabwe, starting from tomorrow in Harare, will revolve around this particular aspect of the game.

Even though the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is well known for taking decisions out of the blue and seemingly with no proper thought and logic behind it, the Bangladesh team management always seems to be keen on keeping the 'process right' ahead of a series.

Even though the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is well known for taking decisions out of the blue and seemingly with no proper thought and logic behind it, the Bangladesh team management always seems to be keen on keeping the 'process right' ahead of a series.

In his illustrious international career spanning 15 years, there were rarely any instances when doubt could be casted over Shakib Al Hasan's ability to perform, in any department of the game.