Bangladesh’s cricketing narrative has rarely followed a smooth arc. It has often flowed between flashes of brilliance and extended stretches of inconsistency.
Bangladesh leg-spinner Rishad Hossain needs to go back to the training ground and rethink how he wants to win games for the Tigers. Because what he has been dishing out in Bangladesh’s consecutive T20I tours of the UAE and Pakistan has been nothing short of ordinary.
The Pakistan cricket team is set to arrive in Bangladesh on the tentative date of July 18, according sources at the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
Consecutive defeats on the ground, chaos at the board and regression in the rankings -- all have combined to create a perfect storm for Bangladesh cricket in the last few days, one that has left fans, and the players, grasping at straws to somehow keep their love for the game and the Bangladesh team from fading into oblivion.
Bangladesh’s T20I captain, Liton Das, said he wants all players to enjoy their cricket and not focus too much on the result in the two-match T20I series against hosts UAE, starting with the first game at Sharjah Cricket Stadium today.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that the board is unaware of Mustafizur Rahman’s call-up to the Indian Premier League.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will seek government clearance before finalising their upcoming tour of Pakistan, which includes five T20Is scheduled for later this month.
This episode of The Daily Star’s podcast Pitch Perfect takes a deep dive into the unfolding crisis and tries to shed light on the root causes of the dysfunction and explore what it would take to bring Bangladesh cricket back from the brink.
Bangladesh have slipped down one spot and are now ranked 10th in the ICC ODI Rankings after the annual rankings update across three formats by the ICC today.
Of the nine teams that have managed to play all the editions of the T20 World Cup since its inauguration in 2007 (Bangladesh, West Indies, India, Australia, England, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and South Africa), the Tigers are the only side to have never qualified for the semifinal of the tournament.
Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha heaped praises on the Tigers’ chosen 15 who will represent the country in the forthcoming T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies.
“The start of the USA v Bangladesh T20I series scheduled for May 21 is currently in doubt after a major storm system ripped through the Houston area on Thursday,” Penna wrote on X
Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is going into the upcoming T20 World Cup as Tigers’ key player in what could be his final bow in T20’s showpiece event.
The Tigers are slotted in Group D alongside South Africa, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands and Nepal
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu conveyed his best wishes to the Bangladesh men’s national cricket team who will embark on their journey to the ICC T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies in the early hours of Thursday.
Bangladesh’s 15-member T20 World Cup squad posed for a photo session in their national team suits following a practice session at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday. Skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto and head coach Chandika Hathurusingha spoke in their final press conference before leaving the country. The Tigers will fly to the USA in the early hours of Thursday and will play a three-match series against the co-hosts of the T20 World Cup before taking part in a warm-up game to complete their build-up to the major event. Photos: Firoz Ahmed
Bangladesh are stepping on to another T20 World Cup, on the back of a disastrous outing in the 2022 edition in Australia. The make-up of the team will possibly not stir a storm in a teacup, but the expectations from the side was nevertheless questioned in context of the recently concluded series against Zimbabwe where the Tigers may not have been tested to World Cup standards.
“We had formed a team in light of the BPL, and we didn’t deviate a lot from that squad. Saifuddin is the only player from the squad we had submitted on the 30th who didn’t make it in the final cut.”
The Bangladesh team will be leaving for the USA on Wednesday. The Tigers will play a three-match T20 series against the USA starting on May 21 before beginning their T20 World Cup campaign.
