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Sri Lanka came back from being 54-4 before lunch to be 185-5 at tea on the first day of the first Test against Pakistan on Sunday. Dhananjaya de Silva and Angelo Mathews each scored 50 runs. De Silva (74 not out) and Mathews (64 not out) batted together for 131 runs before Pakistani leg-spinner Abrar … Read more

After rain stopped play in the eighth over of the first game at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, the second and last T20I between Bangladesh and Afghanistan was cut down to 17 overs. Before the break, the guests had scored 39 runs and lost two wickets. At the end of the first six, … Read more

Afghanistan was five down for 67 at the end of the 11th over of the second and final T20I of the two-match series on Sunday at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. This was because Bangladesh T20I captain Shakib Al Hasan and left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman both hit them quickly. The Fizz hit Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad … Read more

Afghanistan beat Bangladesh in the second of a two-game T20I series on Sunday. The match was cut down to 17 overs because of rain, but Afghanistan scored 116 for seven. After being put in to bat first, the guests had a rough start and were out of the game with five wickets and 67 runs. … Read more

Bangladesh’s Liton Das and Afif Hossain gave the Tigers a strong start. Together, they put on 50 runs as the Tigers tried to reach 117 in the second of two T20Is on Sunday at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Liton made most of the runs in the stand. After the end of the Powerplay, which … Read more

Yesterday, around 100 people, including men, women, and children, were seen waiting outside the Grand Sylhet hotel near the airport road, where the Bangladesh cricket team had checked in for the current T20I series against Afghanistan. Inside the hotel, about forty to fifty people were also waiting calmly for their once-in-a-lifetime chance to take a … Read more

Alex Carey, the Australian wicketkeeper, said he wouldn’t think twice about repeating his controversial stumping of England’s Jonny Bairstow if a similar chance came up in the last two Tests of the current Ashes series. Carey caused a “Spirit of Cricket” row that involved the prime leaders of both countries when he stumped Bairstow in … Read more

Shaheen Shah Afridi of Pakistan took his 100th Test wicket in the first match against Sri Lanka in Galle on Sunday. He had been out with an injury, but he had just come back from it. Shaheen, who bowls quickly with his left arm, got Nishan Madushka caught behind for four in his second over. … Read more

After an exciting two-wicket win in the first T20I, Bangladesh will go into today’s second match at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium hoping to beat Afghanistan for the first time in an international T20I series. In the format, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have played two international games so far. Rashid Khan and his team won one … Read more