Bangladesh capitulated to England by eight wickets in their second match of the Super 12s stage of the T20 World Cup on Wednesday at Abu Dhabi. Winning the toss Bangladesh batted first in this match but they failed to post a challenging total. They tumbled for 124 for nine in 20 overs.  In reply, England chased the target of 125 in 14.1 overs with Jason Roy hitting the highest 61 off 38 balls.  Read:T20 World Cup: Bangladesh tumble for 124 vs England Shoriful Islam and Nasum Ahmed took one wicket each for Bangladesh.  Earlier, Mushfiqur Rahim was the highest run-getter for Bangladesh scoring 29 off 30 balls. Most of the Bangladesh batters displayed lean performance in the middle.  Liton Das failed once again as he was dmissed for 9 runs despite having a good start hitting Moeen Ali for two boundaries.  Moeen removed Liton and Mohammad Naim in two consecutive deliveries. Shakib Al Hasan came to bat at number three but failed this time.  Shakib added only four runs off seven balls.  On the fourth wicket, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad made a partnership.  At the end of the 10th over, Bangladesh were batting for 60 for three with Mushfiqur and Mahmudullh were not out for 27 and 13 respectively.  Mushfiqur fell for 29 off 30 balls after adding 37 runs in the fourth wicket with Mahmudullah.  Nasum Ahmed, who came in at nine, scored 19 off 9 balls with two sixes. None of the other Bangladeshi batters was able to hit a six.  Read:T20 World Cup: Quick wickets dent Bangladesh hard vs England For England, Tymal Mills bagged three wickets with two in the last over while Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone took two wickets each.  Bangladesh made one change to the playing XI including Shoriful Islam to replace Mohammad Saifuddin who was ruled out due to a back injury.  In the next matches of the Super 12s, Bangladesh will take on West Indies, South Africa and Australia.

In the must-win T20 World Cup match against Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh posted 181 on Thursday riding on the batting of Mahmudullah Riyad and Shakib Al Hasan.  Bangladesh’s 181 for 7 is now the highest total in this World Cup so far. The Tigers have surpassed Sri Lanka’s 171 against Ireland in Abu Dhabi.  T20 World Cup: Bangladesh to bat first vs PNG Shakib, who was the player of the match in the previous match against Oman, posted 46 off 37 balls while Mahmudullah posted 50 off 28 balls. They smashed six sixes and three fours together.  Bangladesh failed to have a good start once again as Mohammad Naim fell for a duck in the first ball of the match. However, on the second wicket, Shakib and Liton Das added 50 runs.  Liton was doing well but fell for 29 off 23 balls with one four and one six. Mushfiqur Rahim failed to impress with the bat as he was dismissed while playing a sweep when he was batting at 5.  On the fifth wicket stand, Mahmudullah and Afif Hossain added 43 off 23 balls. Afif ended up at 21 off 14 balls with three fours. Bangladesh surpassed the 180-run mark with some wonderful batting display by Mohammad Saifuddin. In the last three balls, he scored 17 runs with a no-ball-six. Saifuddin remained unbeaten scoring 19 off six balls with two sixes and one four.  For Papua New Guinea, Kabua Morea, Damien Ravu, and captain Assad Vala took two wickets each.  Read: Tigers take on PNG Thursday, aim for a Super 12 berth In the first match of the group, Bangladesh lost to Scotland, but they bounced back in the match against the hosts Oman.  Bangladesh field an unchanged playing XI in this match. 

The defeat in Bangladesh’s first match in the T20 World Cup against Scotland left president of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)  Nazmul Hasan shocked. He said failure of three seniors was the main reason behind the defeat.  Ahead of Bangladesh’s second match in the World Cup against the hosts Oman, Nazmul said it would be impossible for Bangladesh to do well if the three seniors— Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad— continue to play like this.  Read:Bangladesh to take on Oman in crucial clash Tuesday “We have never thought that we could be defeated against Scotland,” Nazmul said in Oman. “We have lost practice matches against Sri Lanka and Ireland. That was fine because we didn't have Shakib, Mahmudullah and Mustafizur Rhaman in those matches. No team can expect a win without their key players. But in the match against Scotland we had everyone. So it was unexpected.” Bangladesh failed to have a good start while chasing a moderate target of 141. Liton Das and Soumya Sarkar opened the innings, but failed t0 deliver a strong foundation. Nazmul said it can happen in the matches, but what the next three batters did was horrible. “Let’s not speak about the first two batters,” Nazmul said. “The way our batters did after the dismissals of the first two batters was the reason behind the defeat. We won’t be able to chase in the World Cup if we play like this— every player of the team knows it. We have to change our batting approach in order to do well.” Read:‘Heart destroyed seeing two defeats yesterday’: Mashrafe In the powerplay, Bangladesh were able to score only 25— 4.16 runs per over, which was one of the main reasons for Bangladesh's shocking defeat. Nazmul said the Tigers should exploit the chance of scoring more runs in those overs.  “I didn’t understand the plan of our team,” Nazmul added. “Many of our batters were caught at the boundary line. We have to play those shots during the first six overs. You cannot play those shots when there are many fielders at the boundary lines.”

Bangladesh's cricketers, lovingly called the Tigers, will leave the capital for Oman on Sunday (October 3) night on a chartered flight to take part in the Men's T20 World Cup to be hosted by Oman and United Arab Emirates. Ahead of flying for Oman, all the members of the Bangladesh Cricket team tested for Covid-19 here on Saturday and after that they are maintaining a strict home quarantine for a day. The Tigers will reach Oman capital Muscat on Monday ( October 4) and will start their practice session on the next day (Tuesday). All the coaching staff of Bangladesh team including head coach Russell Domingo, now abroad, will join the team in Oman by October 5 before the first practice session. Later, Bangladesh team will fly for UAE from Oman on Oct 9 to play two warm-up matches there against Sri Lanka and Ireland on October 12 and 14. Read: National Cricket League to be more competitive, hopes Habibul They will return to Oman on October 15. Bangladesh must play in a round robin leauge qualifiers to enter the main competition. Placed in qualifying Group B, will start their campaign taking on Scotland on Oct 17, before facing hosts Oman on Oct 19 and Papua New Guinea on Oct 21. Top two in the group will advance to the main competition. Bangladesh stand a chance to qualify for the Super 12 stage if they finish in the top two of their group. Mahmudullah Riyad will lead the Tigers in the T20 World Cup coming off three consecutive T20 series wins: against Zimbabwe 2-1, Australia 4-1 and New Zealand 3-2. The team has no major surprises, given that leading batsman Tamim Iqbal ruled himself out well in advance. Tamim Iqbal was the highest scorer for Bangladesh in the 2016 T20 World Cup in India scoring 295 runs at an average of 73.7. Read: Bangladesh U-19 to travel Sri Lanka in October Bangladesh team comprises seven new faces, who are set to play their first World Cup. Pacer Rubel Hossain and Aminul Islam Biplob, the leg spinning-all rounder, are named as reserves. Bangladesh T20 World Cup 2021 squad are: Mahmudullah Riyad (Captain) ,Mohammad Naim, Liton Kumar Das, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin and Shamim Hossain. Two reserved cricketers are: Rubel Hossain, and Aminul Islam Biplob.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday congratulated the national cricket team on winning the first match in the three-match ODI home series against Sri Lanka by 33 runs. Also read: Tigers beat Lions despite Hasaranga scare In a message, the Prime Minister greeted all the players, the coach and the officials of the national cricket team as well as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officials concerned for beating Sri Lanka in the match.

Cricket resumed at the end of last year after a notable number of international cricket series were postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020. However, we missed some FTP fixtures due to the pandemic. Cricketers are now not getting enough rest while playing the international series. In light of this, the BCCI has confirmed that India will play two international series at the same time in July and August. What would the XIs be if Bangladesh's ODI and Test Teams Played on the Same Day? We form two separate Bangladesh national teams for Test and ODI format in this article. ICC's initiatives to resume cricket Bringing cricket back to the field was the biggest challenge for the international cricket council. Initially, ICC’s medical board handed over a guideline manual to the cricket boards across the world, and the cricket committee had taken some important decisions to create a bio-secure environment for the players. Read: Ban vs SL 2021: How Bangladesh can clinch the ODI series against Sri Lanka Following their advice, Cricket boards across the world are now organized international series by encapsulating the players in a bio-secure bubble. However, spectators are not permitted to come into the stadium for the time being in order to maintain social distance. Is playing two international series simultaneously realistic? It was predicted that ICC will face difficulty organizing the suspended matches when the situation gets normal. That prediction came true as we saw ICC had to cancel a notable number of international series due to the complexity of the schedule. Many think that two international series can be played simultaneously to solve this problem. But is it possible to make two squads for teams other than Australia, England, New Zealand, and India? The Indian Cricket Board has already confirmed that two separate teams will be announced for the July and August tours to England and Sri Lanka. Both teams will be representing India simultaneously. In July, the Indian white-ball team will face Sri Lanka for ODI and T20I series, while Virat Kohli will lead the Indian red-ball team in a five-match Test series against England in July-August. India has shown that two separate international teams can be formed. Read: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka ODI series 2021: Expected personal milestones to Reach Is BCB ready to accept two separate teams for Test and ODI? If a circumstance like this appears in the near future, is BCB ready to develop entirely independent Test and ODI teams? The Cricket Board has a lot of very good players, but the reality is, BCB is not ready to accept the formation of two separate national cricket teams for Bangladesh at this moment. The Bangladesh Cricket Board officials previously told the media that they are exploring the option of forming separate teams for each format, but little has been done other than the selection of different captains for each format. The pandemic coronavirus has taught us that we must be ready for any situation that arises. Senior players are picked for Test cricket because the longer version format requires a test of maturity and patience. Mominul Haque is our choice to lead the Bangladesh Test side. On the other hand, Bangladesh thrives in limited-over cricket. However, we put an emphasis on selecting young cricketers for the One-Day International format. We believe they can provide the team with a lot of energy and variety. We pick veteran Mahmudullah Riyad to lead the Bangladesh ODI team.  Read: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka series 2021: ODI Ranking Prediction Bangladesh Test XI: Tamim Iqbal, Shadman Islam, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque (captain), Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nayeem Hasan, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam Bangladesh ODI XI: Liton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah Riyad (captain), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahadi Hasan, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain Bottom Line Several international and domestic cricket series were deferred last year in the wake of the pandemic coronavirus. By the end of 2020, all kinds of cricket-related activities resumed cricket and we've had a good amount of international series in the last six months. BCB has now realized that they should be prepared for any circumstance. Then all kinds of problems will be easy to solve. If Bangladesh's ODI and Test Teams Played on the Same Day, the cricket board would have no trouble forming separate squads if they developed players for each format. Read: Who will host the T20 World Cup and the rest of IPL 2021?

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is trying to convince the government to relax the quarantine rules for Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman, the board's CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said Saturday. Shakib and Mustafiz returned home from India on Thursday, and are under a 14-day institutional quarantine in Dhaka. Both players were playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which was suspended as some cricketers had tested positive for Covid-19. Although the government's Covid protocol requires all the inbound passengers to go through a mandatory 14-day quarantine period, the general protocol is not supposed to apply to athletes, Nizamuddin said. Also read: Shakib, Mustafizur return to Dhaka "We are not expecting any special arrangement or privilege for Shakib and Mustafiz. The Covid protocol followed by our country is for general people. But it is different for the international players. "The general protocol is for people who come to the country by passenger flight after receiving a Covid negative certificate, but Shakib and Mustafiz returned home in a chartered flight and maintained a tight protocol," the BCB CEO added. He also said the board was working closely with the health authority to minimise the quarantine period of these two cricketers. The BCB earlier urged the health authority to reduce the period of quarantine for them, but the Directorate General of Health Services declined the request. Also read: 14-day quarantine must for Shakib, Mustafizur The Tigers are scheduled to play a three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka starting May 23. If the authority stays firm to not reduce the quarantine period of Shakib and Mustafiz, the players will have to stay in institutional quarantine till May 19. This means they will get only four days to practice ahead of the series. The Tigers recently played a two-match Test series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and lost it 1-0. Bangladesh's last ODI series was in New Zealand where they lost the series 3-0 to the hosts.

Bangladesh cricket stars— Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman— are set to return home from India within 48 hours, and right after arriving in Dhaka, they will have to maintain a mandatory 14-day quarantine period in a government-specified institute, confirmed the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The duo were playing the Indian Premier League (IPL) which was postponed on Tuesday after some players tested positive for Covid-19. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has earlier applied to DGHS to relax quarantine for these two, but DGHS said they have no choice but to maintain a quarantine period. Currently, there is no flight operational between India and Bangladesh. The Bangladesh authority has put international flights with India on hold aiming to avoid the risk of bringing Covid-19 infected people to Bangladesh. Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the chief executive officer of BCB, has said Shakib and Mustafizur will have to return home with a special arrangement. He, however, didn’t specify what the special arrangement would be to bring them back home. BCB is eager to ensure the service of these two in the upcoming three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka which will take place later in May. BCB has already announced a preliminary squad for this series which includes both Shakib and Mustafizur. Bangladesh’s last international assignment was in Sri Lanka where they played two Tests. The first match of the series ended in a draw, the other game was won by the hosts by 209 runs. Bangladesh returned home on Tuesday from Sri Lanka. After arriving in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s head coach Russell Domingo talked to the media. While talking about Shakib and Mustafizur, he said their inclusion is vital for Bangladesh to win the series against Sri Lanka at home. “It’s good to have Shakib and Mustafizur back (in the team). The next series will be important as (World Cup) qualification points are up for grabs. We need to bounce back after a tough series in New Zealand,” Domingo told the media. “It's good to be playing in the home conditions again. As I said, it's good to get experienced players like Shakib and Mustafiz back. We will be playing against a very dangerous side. So, we have to play really well to beat them,” Domingo added saying that the team will practice for three days before the Eid vacation.

Bangladesh cricket team are set to take on West Indies in a two-match Test series starting February 3 in Chattogram. Ahead of the series, Bangladesh’s left-arm spinner Taijul Islam said there will be no problem to play Test cricket after a long gap forced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the backdrop of rising concern over violence against women, top Bangladeshi cricketers urged the authorities concerned to ensure justice and take effective steps to stop violence against women.