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Bangladesh will take on the touring Ireland on Wednesday in the first of the three-match ODI series. After the ODI series, both teams will take on each other in a three-match T20I series. Both the series will be played in Mirpur. Nigar Sultana will lead the Bangladesh team in this series, while Gaby Lewis will lead the tourists. The second and third ODIs will take place on November 30 and December 2. The T20I series begins on December 5, with the second and third T20Is scheduled for December 7, and December 9. Before this series, Bangladesh faced Ireland in six ODIs and won three of those. Two matches ended without a result, and Bangladesh lost one.   Matches of this will be broadcast live across multiple platforms. In Bangladesh, fans can catch the action on T Sports (TV) and the T Sports App (OTT). For viewers in India, Fancode will stream the matches, while the rest of the world can tune in via T Sports' YouTube channel. Bangladesh ODI squad: Nigar Sultana (c), Nahida Akter, Murshida Khatun, Fargana Hoque, Sharmin Akhter, Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Rabeya Khan, Fahima Khatun, Marufa Akter, Jahanara Alam, Sultana Khatun, Taj Nehar, Sanjida Akther Ireland ODI squad: Gaby Lewis (c), Ava Canning, Christina Coulter Reilly, Alana Dalzell, Laura Delany, Sarah Forbes, Amy Hunter, Arlene Kelly, Aimee Maguire, Cara Murray, Leah Paul, Orla Prendergast, Una Raymond-Hoey, Freya Sargent, and Alice Tector.

A 13-year-old from India’s northern state of Bihar could become the latest T20 batting sensation after Rajasthan Royals bought the youngster for $130,000 during the mega auction of the Indian Premier League. Vaibhav Suryavanshi came to the limelight last month after he scored a century against Australia's Under-19 team off just 58 balls before he got out for 104. At the age of 13 years and 187 days, Suryavanshi broke the record of Bangladesh’s present test captain Najmul Hasan Shanto, who at the age of 14 years and 241 days held the previous record of scoring a century at youth level. Delhi Capitals also showed plenty of interest when the bid for Suryavanshi started at his base price of $35,500 before Rajasthan eventually bought him. “He’s (Suryavanshi) been to our high performance center in Nagpur, he had trials there and really impressed our coaching set-up there,” Rajasthan’s chief executive officer Jake Lush McCrum said after the auction ended in Saudi Arabia on Monday. “He’s an incredible talent and of course you've got to have the confidence so he can step up to the IPL level.” McCrum described Suryavanshi as a “hell of a talent” and hoped lots of work will go into the coming months before the IPL begins on March 14 with former Indian captain Rahul Dravid among the coaching panel of the franchise. Suryavanshi idolizes legendary West Indian batter Brian Lara and often gets tips from former Indian batter Wasim Jaffer, with whom he met during an Under-19 tournament in Bangladesh last year. India rout Australia by 295 runs in 1st test His father Sanjiv Suryavanshi is his coach and has worked with him since an an early age once his son started to show interest in the game. “He is not just my son now, but entire Bihar’s son," the elder Suryavanshi told Press Trust of India. "My son has worked hard.”    

Sylhet Division won their first-ever National Cricket League (NCL) championship on Tuesday, defeating Barishal Division by five wickets at the Sylhet International Stadium. The victory came with one match still to play in this year’s league. Chasing a modest target of 105 runs, Sylhet chased down the target in the first session of the final day, led by a crucial unbeaten 38-run knock from captain Amit Hasan. Earlier, Sylhet’s bowlers had bundled out Barishal for 142 in the second innings to set up the chase. Amit, who scored 661 runs in five matches this season, played a pivotal role in his team’s campaign. Sylhet’s road to the title was further solidified as Rangpur, their closest competitor, failed to beat Dhaka Metro in Cox’s Bazar. The match ended in a draw, guaranteeing Sylhet the championship regardless of the result in the final round. The chase was not without challenges. Sylhet stumbled early, losing two wickets for just seven runs. A steadying 77-run partnership between Amit and Nasum Ahmed (44) brought the team to the brink of victory. Nasum fell with just one run required, but Amit quickly took the final single to seal the win. Sylhet now leads the table with 37 points, far ahead of Dhaka Division (25) and Rangpur Division (23).

West Indies are on the brink of victory in the first Test against Bangladesh, reducing the visitors to 109 for 7 at stumps on the fourth day.  With only three wickets in hand, Bangladesh are now facing a tough task, as Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales orchestrated a commanding bowling performance. Bangladesh began the day with an unusual decision to declare their first innings at 269 for 9, leaving a deficit of 181 runs. This aggressive approach aimed to create opportunities for their bowlers, a gamble that seemed to work momentarily as Taskin Ahmed delivered a career-best 6 for 64 to bowl West Indies out for 152. Rishabh Pant becomes the most expensive cricket player in IPL history However, the inspired bowling effort was undone by Bangladesh’s fragile batting under relentless pressure from the West Indies attack. Roach struck early in Bangladesh’s chase, removing Zakir Hasan for a duck and later claiming Mominul Haque with a sharp return catch. Jayden Seales added to the woes, dismissing Mahmudul Hasan Joy and then Taijul Islam with precise deliveries. Bangladesh's top-order collapse left them reeling at 59 for 5. Amid the chaos, captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz staged a lone fightback, scoring a brisk 45 off 46 balls. His innings featured bold strokes, including five boundaries and a six, as he tried to keep the scoreboard ticking. Zimbabwe stuns new-look Pakistan in rain-affected 1st ODI However, his dismissal to a sharp catch behind the stumps by Joshua Da Silva off Seales effectively ended Bangladesh’s hopes of a resurgence. Litton Das managed a quick 22 but fell to Shamar Joseph after a brief counterattack. Earlier in the day, West Indies started their second innings cautiously but were undone by Taskin’s fiery spell. Alick Athanaze top-scored with 42, while Kraigg Brathwaite contributed 23. Despite Taskin’s heroics, supported by two wickets from Mehidy, West Indies set a daunting target of 334 runs. The West Indies bowlers, backed by sharp fielding despite some missed chances, maintained a stranglehold on Bangladesh. Roach finished the day with 3 for 20, while Seales impressed with 3 for 31.

    PERTH, Australia, Nov 25 (AP/UNB) — India hammed Australia by 295 runs in the opening Border-Gavaskar test to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series with more than a day to spare at Perth Stadium on Monday. Set an impossible 534 runs to win, Australia was bowled out for 238 runs soon after tea on the fourth day as India secured its biggest win against the hosts in Australia following the 222-run win at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 1977. Travis Head top scored for the homeside with 89 runs off 101 balls with eight fours. Head tried to delay the inevitable defeat first with Steve Smith (17), sharing 62 runs for the fifth wicket to lift Australia from 17-4 soon after it resumed the day from an overnight 12-3. Then in the company of hard-hitting Mitchell Marsh (47), Head added 82 runs for the sixth wicket before fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah forced the left hander to edge to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Bumrah finished with a match-haul of 8-72 (5-30 and 3-42) and increased his wicket tally in Australia to 40 at an average of 18.80 in eight test matches. Bumrah passed offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin (39 wickets) as the third most successful Indian bowler in Australia behind swing bowler Kapil Dev (51 in 11) and legspinner Anil Kumble (49 in 10). Fast bowler Mohamed Siraj took 3-51. Test debutante and fast bowler Harshit Rana bowled Alex Carey for 36 to seal a wonderful win for India. It was also India's second biggest win in terms of runs against Australia in all tests since the 320-run win at home in Mohali in October 2008. India's comfortable win was set up by two majestic centuries — Yashasvi Jaiswal's 161 and an unbeaten 100 by evergreen Virat Kohli — as the tourists set Australia the highest-ever run chase on a pitch that was getting increasingly difficult to bat on. Playing only its fourth five-test series since its first tour here in 1947/48, India secured only its 10th win in 53 tests on Australian soil and only its second in Perth in six test matches. India last won in Perth in 2008 at the old WACA ground. India had gone into the test without skipper Rohit Sharma, who stayed home for the birth of his second child and batsman Shubman Gill who suffered a broken finger during a practice match between the squad. But a young and inexperienced team under Bumrah redeemed itself and turned its fortunes around following an embarrassing 3-0 home series loss to New Zealand leading into this test series. After an eventful start to the test that saw 17 wickets fall on the first day, India took control of the test as it plundered 487-6 declared. This was after it was bowled out for 150 after winning the toss and then dismissed Australia for a paltry 104. But the test belonged to 22-year-old Jaiswal who provided the backbone of the Indian second innings that will be long remembered for it class and exuberance against the much-vaunted Australian pace attack. It was his third century in 2024 and anchored the innings with a record 201-run opening stand with KL Rahul (77). Kohli then took over to become the most successful visiting batsman in Australia by scoring his seventh hundred here before India declared. Only Englishman Jack Hobbs (9) has scored more hundreds in Australia in 24 matches. Kohli has played only 14 games. The start of day four did not go well for the hosts as Siraj forced Khawaja (4) to top edge for Pant to complete a running catch to reduce Australia to 17-4. But Smith and Head survived some anxious moments against India’s pace quartet and Head counterattacked his way to a 63-ball half century with six fours. Smith put behind his first ball nought in the first innings to play a watchful innings, but was eventually undone by a superb Siraj delivery. The series now moves to Adelaide for a pink ball test from Dec. 6. India has held the Border-Gavaskar trophy since the 2016/17 home series.    

Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant set a new record as the most expensive player in Indian Premier League (IPL) history, fetching $3.2 million after being acquired by Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday in the IPL Auction 2025 in Saudia Arabia. The former Delhi Capitals captain overtook Shreyas Iyer, who went to Punjab Kings for $3.18 million on the first day of the cricket mega auction, which was held for the first time in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both players are likely to lead their franchises in the world’s richest domestic Twenty20 league which is set to start on March 14 next year with the final scheduled for May 25. Delhi could hand the captaincy to former Lucknow skipper Lokesh Rahul, who they bought for $1.67 million. The biggest surprise of the day was all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer, who was eventually sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.83 million after fierce bidding between his former franchise Kolkata and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Gujarat Titans got Jos Buttler for $1.88 million after Rajasthan Royals couldn’t buy back the England captain, who is expected to open with Shubman Gill. Gujarat also succeeded in buying South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada for $1.28 million. There was a huge drop when Delhi bought Mitchell Starc for $1.40 million, after last year’s record $2.98 million by Kolkata for the Australian left-arm fast bowler. Starc’s countryman David Warner and Jonny Bairstow of England remained unsold on the opening day after none of the 10 franchises showed interest. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will return to Chennai Super Kings for the first time since 2015. He was sold for $1.16 million – the highest he has ever got in an IPL auction.

Bangladesh narrowly avoided the follow-on thanks to fighting fifties from Mominul Haque and Jaker Ali, but West Indies remained firmly in control at the end of the third day of the first Test in Antigua. Bangladesh finished on 269 for 9, trailing the hosts by 181 runs after the West Indies had declared their first innings at 450 for 9. Despite several good starts from Bangladesh's top and middle order, none of their batters managed to replicate the big scores from the West Indian innings. Mominul struck a gritty 50 off 116 balls, while wicketkeeper-batter Jaker contributed a crucial 53 under pressure. Their efforts, supported by a late stand with Taijul Islam, ensured Bangladesh surpassed the follow-on target of 251 in the day’s final hour. The day began with Bangladesh on 40 for 2, and the visitors made slow progress on a surface that demanded patience. Shahadat Hossain added just 18 runs in a painstaking 71-ball stay before edging Kemar Roach to first slip. Mominul and Litton Das then stabilized the innings, adding 62 runs for the fourth wicket. Read: Zimbabwe stuns new-look Pakistan in rain-affected 1st ODI Mominul reached his 21st Test half-century but was trapped lbw by Jayden Seales shortly after lunch. Litton played with intent for his 40 off 76 balls but fell to a dragged-on dismissal against Shamar Joseph, leaving Bangladesh at 145 for 5. Stand-in captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz endured a hostile spell, facing bouncers from Alzarri Joseph and Seales. Mehidy struck a couple of boundaries but eventually succumbed to a short ball from Joseph, gloving it to short-leg. Jaker Ali and Taijul Islam then staged a spirited fightback with a 68-run partnership for the seventh wicket. Jaker’s 53 off 89 balls included four boundaries, while Taijul chipped in with a handy 25. Their stand frustrated the West Indian bowlers before Joseph bowled Taijul and Justin Greaves dismissed Jaker with a catch at deep midwicket. Towards the end of the day, Alzarri Joseph hit Taskin Ahmed on the helmet, leading to a heated exchange between the two. However, fading light prevented the West Indies from wrapping up Bangladesh’s innings. West Indies' bowlers shared the workload, with Joseph taking 3 for 69 and Seales and Greaves picking up two wickets each. Earlier, Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl first. Read more: Antigua Test: West Indies dominate with Greaves' century and a late bowling burst West Indies declared their first innings on 450 for 9 wickets, with Justin Greaves hitting his maiden Test century and Mikyle Louis and Alick Athanaze scoring 97 and 90, respectively.

All-rounder Sikandar Raza inspired Zimbabwe to a stunning 80-run win on the DLS method in the rain-affected first one-day international against a new-look Pakistan white-ball team on Sunday. Raza made a crucial 39 runs and lifted Zimbabwe from a precarious 125-7 to 205 all out by sharing a 62-run eighth wicket stand with No. 9 batter Richard Ngarava, who top-scored with 48. Under overcast conditions, Raza (2-7) picked up two wickets in one over as Pakistan limped to 60-6 in 21 overs before it rained and denied further play as Zimbabwe took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Antigua Test: West Indies dominate with Greaves' century and a late bowling burst Pakistan’s second-string new ball bowlers – debutant Aamer Jamal and Mohammad Hasnain – couldn’t make an impact on Zimbabwe's openers after the visitors had rested frontline pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah for the white-ball series in Zimbabwe. Pakistan also rested its ace batter Babar Azam for the first time in an ODI since 2019 as it experimented with its bench strength ahead of next year’s Champions Trophy. Tadiwanashe Marumani (29) flicked Jamal to square leg for a six and Joylord Gumbie (15) hit three fours against the seamers as they combined in a better than run-a-ball opening stand of 40 runs against a wayward Pakistan pace attack. Gumbie got run out in a mix-up with Marumani in the sixth over before Pakistan came back hard through its spinners and struck at regular intervals. One of the three Pakistan debutants – left-arm wristspinner Faisal Akram took 3-24 and vice-captain Salman Ali Agha claimed 3-42 as Zimbabwe slipped to 125-7 in the 26th over. However, Ngarava and Raza thwarted Pakistan's spinners and pacers alike in a 69-ball stand to give the total respectability. Raza perished when he tried an expansive hit against Akram and was caught on the edge of the boundary while Ngarava was the last man to get dismissed after hitting five fours and a six when he chopped Hasnain back onto his stumps. Tilak Varma creates history with 3rd consecutive T20 century Fast bowler Blessing Muzarabani used the home conditions to perfection and snared the early wickets of Saim Ayub (11) and Abdullah Shafique (1), who both got caught behind inside the first three overs from the tall pacer. Kamran Ghulam (17) and skipper Mohammad Rizwan (19 not out) couldn’t pace the chase before Pakistan lost four wickets in the space of 18 runs against the spinners. Ghulam tried to break the shackles but Sean Williams (2-12) got a thick edge and earned Marumani his third catch behind the wickets before Raza had two in three balls. Raza pinned Salman plumb leg before wicket of his second ball and one ball later Haseebullah Khan was out for zero in his ODI debut when he played the wrong line and was clean bowled. The three-match ODI series will be followed by three T20s with Bulawayo hosting all the matches.  

A stellar maiden Test century by Justin Greaves and a fiery bowling effort put the West Indies in firm control of the first Test against Bangladesh in Antigua. At stumps on Day Two, Bangladesh found themselves struggling at 40-2, trailing the hosts by a daunting 410 runs. Greaves anchored the West Indies innings with a composed 115 not out, helping his team post a commanding 450 for nine wickets declared. His knock was built over 206 balls and featured just four boundaries, proving his patience and ability to wear down the opposition. Resuming on 250-5, the West Indies endured an early scare as Hasan Mahmud struck twice in quick succession, dismissing Joshua Da Silva and Alzarri Joseph to leave the hosts at 261-7. Antigua Test: Louis falls short of century as West Indies reach 250 on day one However, Greaves found an able partner in Kemar Roach, whose gritty 47 during their 140-run eighth-wicket stand steered the innings back on track. Roach batted over four hours, demonstrating resilience in his highest Test score. The partnership was the third-highest eighth-wicket stand for the West Indies in Test history and their best against Bangladesh. Roach eventually fell to Mahmud, who finished as Bangladesh's standout bowler with figures of 3-87 from 27 overs. Bangladesh’s response was fraught with difficulties against a disciplined West Indian pace attack. Zakir Hasan, who looked promising with three boundaries, was dismissed for 15 after an under-edge off Jayden Seales shaved the leg stump. Soon after, Alzarri Joseph struck to remove Mahmudul Hasan Joy for 5, leaving Bangladesh tottering at 21-2. Mominul Haque (7*) and Shahadat Hossain (10*) weathered the storm to end the day unscathed, but Bangladesh faces a herculean task to salvage the match. Earlier, Bangladesh won the toss under new captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz and opted to bowl first.

Defending champions Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket team will fly for United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday (Nov 24) in a hope to retain the U-19 Asia Cup Cricket title beginning there on Friday (November 29). Earlier on Thursday (November 21), Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 14-member final squad of Bangladesh Youth team for the eight-nation continental youth cricket tournament naming Azizul Hakim Tamim as the captain. Bangladesh clinched their maiden and only U-19 Asia Cup crown beating UAE by a huge margin of 195 runs in the last year's final. The official photo session of Bangladesh team for the upcoming one-day format Youth Asia Cup Cricket was held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday. Later, addressing the pressmen, Bangladesh skipper Tamim said, "we are the defending champions, our team is studded with five cricketers of the last champions team, so we are very much optimistic to win the title this time too". "We worked hard in last three to four months, our confidence level is now high after winning the home series against UAE, we wants to win the U-19 World Cup crown also apart from winning the ensuing Asia Cup title '" he added Eight Asian teams--five full-member countries –India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan-- alongside three qualified teams—Nepal, Japan and UAE –split into two groups, will compete in the first phase of the upcoming Asia Cup. Bangladesh, which was placed in four-team Group B with Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, will play Afghanistan in one of the two opening day’s matches on November 29 at Dubai International Stadium. Bangladesh will play Nepal on December 1 and Sri Lanka on December 3 in the remaining group matches. Ahead of the main draw, Bangladesh team will play a warm-match against India on November 26 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Bangladesh U-19 team: Azizul Hakim Tamim (captain), Jawad Arbar (vice-captain), Rifat Beg, Samiun Bashir Ratul, Devashis Sarkar, Rizan Hossain, Al Fahad, Iqbal Hasan Emon, Rafiuzzaman Rafi, Farid Hasan Foysal, Maruf Mrida, Shihab James, Ashrafuzzaman and Saad Islam Razi.