Cricket News
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board met on Tuesday and agreed to the rules of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) ban. The ICC Board heard what SLC had to say and decided that Sri Lanka can continue to compete internationally in both bilateral cricket and ICC events. This comes after Sri Lanka was recently suspended for … Read more
During a rough run in the ICC World Cup that just ended, Bangladeshi players fell behind in most of the measures, but they were right up there in one area. Bangladesh were second only to India when they challenged the ruling made by the on-field referee. Four of their eleven ruling Review System (DRS) appeals … Read more
There will be five T20I games between India and Australia. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chose an experienced T20 player to lead the team. Suryakumar Yadav was chosen to lead the team that will play Australia in the five-match T20I home series. Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna, who joined the World Cup … Read more
Today, the New Zealand cricket team will arrive in Dhaka. Their two-match Test series against Bangladesh will begin on November 28 in Sylhet. The Kiwis will leave for Sylhet on Wednesday, where the first Test will be played. The next day, they will have their first workout practise. They will train three more times before … Read more
After missing the World Cup for the first time, West Indies has put together a 15-person team that will play three one-day games against England next month. One of the players named is wicketkeeper-batsman Shane Dowrich. Dowrich, who is 32 years old, was called up by surprise three years after his last test match and … Read more
David Warner, Australia’s starter, has been pulled from the five-match T20 series against India that starts on Thursday. Warner scored 535 runs at 48.63 during Australia’s winning World Cup campaign. Instead, he will go back home before his last Test summer. He had already said he would quit from the longest format after Australia’s match … Read more
Nafees Iqbal, a former Bangladesh cricket player, has been hired again as the team manager for Bangladesh’s upcoming home match against New Zealand. The elder brother of former ODI captain Tamim Iqbal, Nafees, told The Daily Star that he would be going back to his old job. Nafees was managing the Tigers’ team until … Read more
With Shan Masood as their new captain, Pakistan named a new team on Monday for a tough tour of Australia that starts next month. They want to get off to a good start after a terrible World Cup performance. Pakistan placed fifth in the World Cup, losing five of their nine games. After the tournament, … Read more
Chattogram Division beat Rajshahi by 10 wickets in a tier-2 National Cricket League (NCL) match on Monday, moving them up to tier-1 for the 26th season of the NCL. Chattogram finished first in Tier-2 with 47 points, five wins in six games. They were 13 points ahead of Khulna Division, who also had a comfortable … Read more
Brazil lost a football game to Uruguay 2-1 on July 16, 1950. Brazil had lost to their South American neighbours before, and this time it wasn’t a terrible loss in terms of the score. There were 173,850 people in the stands at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium that day, and millions more tuned in on … Read more
