Former Twenty20 World Cup champions India kept alive their slim chances of making the semifinals with an eight-wicket rout of Scotland in their Super 12 Group II match on Friday.

A semifinal spot virtually assured, in-form England would look to dent South Africa’s hopes of reaching the last-four stage when the two teams meet each other in a high-voltage Group 1 Super 12 match of the ICC T20 World Cup on Saturday. With a net run rate of +3.183, England are more or less through to the semifinals with four wins from as many games, while South Africa are lying in the third spot with six points from four matches.

England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan wants the cricket board to tackle the Yorkshire racism row “head on”, insisting there was no place for any kind of discrimination against any player. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been rocked by former player Azeem Rafiq’s allegation of racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, which has been suspended from hosting international or major matches.

With their campaign back on track with a big win against Bangladesh, Australia will hope to avoid slipping up against West Indies in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

While the blame game between the board and the players intensifies in the media, Bangladesh team returned home yesterday empty-handed following a disastrous ICC T20 World Cup campaign, in which they lost all five Super 12 games of the marquee event.

New Zealand defeated Namibia by 52 runs on Friday to move closer to the T20 World Cup semi-finals. Glenn Phillips and Jimmy Neesham plundered 67 runs off the last four overs as New Zealand made 163-4 after being put into bat. In reply, Namibia were well set at 47-0 in the eighth over before they faded to 111-7.

New Zealand batsmen Glenn Phillips and Jimmy Neesham launched a late assault on Namibia that secured an important 52-run win in Sharjah on Friday and boosted their hopes of reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals from Group II.

KL Rahul smashed 50 off 19 balls as India hammered Scotland by eight wickets to stay alive in the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday.

The first lot of Bangladesh cricketers returned to the country in the evening today following a disastrous T20 World Cup in the UAE. 

New Zealand defeated Namibia by 52 runs on Friday to move closer to the T20 World Cup semi-finals.

Former Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury called Nazmul Hassan, the current president of the board, ‘incompetent’ and blamed him for Bangladesh’s awful showing at the ongoing T20 World Cup in the UAE. 

Shakib al Hasan, who is recovering from his hamstring injury that he sustained during Bangladesh’s third game of the ICC T20 World Cup Super 12 stage against West Indies, is uncertain for the upcoming three-match T20I series against Pakistan at home starting from November 19.

Bangladesh cricket’s lamentable state of affairs following their abysmal T20 world cup campaign in the middle east has brought backlash on all fronts from the press and social media alike.

Followed by their disastrous T20 World Cup campaign, in which Bangladesh lost all five of their Super 12 games, the Tigers will be returning home empty-handed.

Even though Australia dominated on all fronts in their latest encounter against Bangladesh, it was the leg-spinner Adam Zampa who stood out for the Aussies, leading them to a resounding eight-wicket victory over the Tigers in their latest Super 12 contest in Dubai on Thursday.

A dejected Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah Riyad walked into the press conference area after competing in a disastrous ICC T20 World Cup campaign, in which the Tigers went on to lose all the five Super 12 games after their crushing eight-wicket defeat to Australia in Dubai yesterday.

Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 20 runs at the T20 World Cup on Thursday, confirming the defending champions’ elimination from the tournament.

Bangladesh’s final Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup summed up the sordid state of the Tigers

Firm favourites New Zealand will look to inch closer to the semifinals when they take on a struggling Namibia in Group 2 Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup in Sharjah today.

Scotland skipper Kyle Coetzer hopes to engineer a World Cup upset of India today, fired up by memories of playing alongside honorary Scotsman Rahul Dravid, the new coach of the Asian giants.