Bangladesh's ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman will not be attending the training camp in Sussex, Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) media operations committee chairman Akram Khan said yesterday.

A song dedicated to the Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Mortaza who recently retired from T20Is is making waves in Youtube.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said on Friday that he has not seen a commotion such as the one in Bangladesh anywhere else in the world following the retirement of a player from T20 cricket.

Bangladesh ODI skipper Mashrafe Mortaza expresses that he would have been more satisfied had his team won the one-day series 2-0 against Sri Lanka after the Tigers arrived home from a month-long series today.

Asanka Gurusinha, Cricket Manager of the Sri Lankan team threw light on the positive attitude of the Bangladeshi cricketers after the tourists won the second Twenty20 international in Colombo by 45-runs to level the series.

It was 1998 and the venue was the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium. A tall and muscular pace bowler was gearing up to play for the pride of his division, Khulna.

The name Arjuna Ranatunga will forever bring one image to the mind's eye: gliding Glenn McGrath to the third man boundary to bring up the winning runs of the 1996 World Cup, before running to Aravinda de Silva for an embrace to rejoice the fulfilment of a pipedream.

Soumya Sarkar was batting like a man possessed.

It is now becoming quite routine that in a momentous victory, Shakib Al Hasan is one the best performers.

Tom Latham has been appointed New Zealand captain for one-day matches against Ireland and Bangladesh ahead of the Champions Trophy, New Zealand Cricket said on Thursday.

Bangladesh have shared the Test series against Sri Lanka. They also shared the ODI series against the Lankans. Today the Tigers will get an opportunity to make it truly a shared series on the Lankan soil provided that they show tenacity in the second and final T20 international at the R Premadasa Stadium.

With the gloom surrounding Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's retirement from T20Is hanging over today's second T20I against Sri Lanka, the man took it upon himself to ensure that it does not overshadow the match and that it inspires the team to come up with a rare T20I win to leave Sri Lanka with squared series in all formats of the game.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said yesterday that the board knew that Mashrafe Bin Mortaza would step down from the captaincy of the T20I side, but not that he would retire from the format altogether.

As successful as this tour of Sri Lanka by the Bangladesh cricket team has been, it has also been one marred by off-field controversies and more than a little cloak-and-dagger.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan says today that the board knew that Mashrafe Bin Mortaza would step down from the captaincy of the T20I side, but not that he would retire from the format altogether.

Most other players would have thought that speaking on their retirement once in the day was enough.

The first T20I against Sri Lanka yesterday was overshadowed by Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's announcement at the toss

Three stats dominate the discussion before Bangladesh and Sri Lanka lock horns in the first of two T20Is at the R Premadasa International Stadium in Colombo tonight at 7:30pm (Bangladesh time).

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) made it clear yesterday that they will not accept any proposal of changing the format for Australia's cricket team's scheduled tour to Bangladesh this year.

Before the ODI series against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka had a winless 2017 to look back uneasily upon.