A fuel tanker overturned late on Tuesday in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa after the driver lost control of the vehicle, spilling petrol which exploded and killed at least 147 people, police and state emergency services said yesterday.
Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal said that his conversation with the umpire during Bangladesh’s first Test against South Africa in Durban earlier this month was made to look more than what had actually transpired.
Bangladesh Test skipper Mominul Haque fronted up to the media present at the airport after returning from South Africa. There is criticism of his captaincy after two heavy defeats in the two-match Test series but he said that he was in the same place he was before the Test win in New Zealand and had enough authority to make his own decisions.
The first group of the Bangladesh cricket team will return from their tour of South Africa at around 8:55am on Wednesday.
Bangladesh pacer Khaled Ahmed was found guilty of breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the second day of their second Test against South Africa at St George's Park in Gqeberha. The pacer was fined 15 per cent of his match fee for the offence.
Bangladesh Test skipper Mominul Haque said that most of the national team players lack the understanding on how to play quality spin after the Tigers suffered a 332-run thumping at the hands of South Africa, orchestrated by just two Protea spinners, in the second Test in Gqeberha today.
Bangladesh batters continued their shambolic performance in the Test series as the Tigers failed to put up a fight in their second innings on the fourth day of the second and final Test in Gqeberha today.
Two South Africa players have tested positive for Covid-19 before the start of day’s play in Gqeberha today and will not be taking further part in the ongoing second and final Test of the series against Bangladesh, confirmed Cricket South Africa (CSA).
Temba Bavuma and Kyle Verreynne stitched together an unbeaten fifty-run stand to help South Africa end the opening day strongly against Bangladesh in the first Test at Kingsmead in Durban on Thursday.
Bangladesh would be disappointed with how the first session of the first Test went after the Tigers chose to field first against hosts South Africa in Durban.
Bangladesh will be looking to continue their upward trend in Tests away from home after the Mount Maunganui triumph earlier this year against New Zealand, with a confident Mominul Haque and Co. unsurprisingly eyeing a maiden Test win against South Africa in their den.
Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque believes his team are well prepared ahead of the first Test against South Africa starting at Kingsmead on Thursday.
Tamim Iqbal-led Bangladesh team's recent white-ball success in South Africa has enabled the Tigers to climb to sixth place in the ICC ODI rankings and, by doing so, the men in red in green are placed ahead of Pakistan.
Bangladesh batter Najmul Hossain Shanto, who had toured South Africa in 2015 with the Bangladesh Under-19 side, recalled some fond memories from that tour as he prepares to face the Proteas once again in Bangladesh’s two-match Test series, starting from Thursday.
Fast bowler Ebadot Hossain mentioned that Bangladesh team, preparing to embark for a two-match Test series against hosts South Africa from March 31, are oozing with confidence following their unprecedented fifty-over series win against the Proteas at their den.
Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal heaped praise on head coach Russell Domingo while talking a day after the Tigers’ historic ODI series win in South Africa.
The morning air felt a little different in Durban yesterday, perhaps more so for Taskin Ahmed, who at one point a few years ago had felt unwanted in the national fold.
Diehard fans of Bangladeshi cricket often suffer from a certain form of starvation since a huge void remains in the quantity of cricket played
