Can football stay the people’s game?
31 July 2026
Just days after the biggest FIFA World Cup in history came to a close, FIFA unveiled a proposal that threatens to alter football's future fundamentally.
31 July 2026
World Cup errors shake faith in VAR
28 July 2026
Technology is supposed to make life easier, not the other way around. Yet when it comes to football, it often seems to have made the game more complicated, raising more questions than it answers.
28 July 2026
Where it all came full circle
21 July 2026
At New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday, several storylines came full circle in the World Cup final.
21 July 2026
Should Nico's goal have stood?: VAR, Argentina and the questions that won't go away
20 July 2026
The dust has settled. Spain lifted their second World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over an Argentina side that never truly showed up in the all-important final at New York-New Jersey Stadium today.
20 July 2026
All set for a blockbuster final
19 July 2026
The stakes could not be higher than they are at a World Cup final. And the grand finale at the New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday (1:00am Bangladesh Time) could hardly have been scripted better, with Lionel Messi's Argentina taking on Lamine Yamal's Spain in a showdown set to bring the curtain down on the biggest edition in the competition's history.
19 July 2026
Golden Boot: The only prize left for Mbappe to chase
18 July 2026
The third-place decider is often described as the World Cup's most unwanted fixture. No player begins a tournament dreaming of featuring in it, yet one of the semifinal losers has to walk away with bronze while the other leaves empty-handed.
18 July 2026
Messi is inevitable
17 July 2026
Lionel Messi turned 39 during the course of this World Cup. Yet the things he has done, the numbers he has produced, and the sheer excellence he has displayed in North America continue to defy age and time.
17 July 2026
Resilient Argentina refuse to fall
16 July 2026
Most teams that go on to achieve ultimate glory have one thing in common: resilience.
16 July 2026
BCB beep-ing to the right beat
The recent fuss in the country’s cricket fraternity seems to be over the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s newly-set requirements for the beep test that must be met in order to play in the National Cricket League (NCL), scheduled to begin next month.
28 September 2019
Can Domingo change the mindset?
When Bangladesh were pitted against Afghanistan for a one-off Test series followed by a T20I tri-series involving the duo and the low-ranked Zimbabweans, many thought it would be a great opportunity for a declining Tigers to get back into their groove after a
25 September 2019
A new high in humiliation
Everything was working fine for Bangladesh on the fifth day of their one-off Test against Afghanistan until the rain that had marred most of the day’s play, seeming to answer most Bangladesh players’ and fans’ prayers, stopped and play resumed at 4:20 pm with 18.3 overs more to be played at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday.
9 September 2019
Jayed, victim of a flawed process?
The whole concept of nurturing something seems to be lost on the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). While this affects the entire team overall, the fast bowling unit
20 July 2019
Pondering on what ifs
There’s no point in head scratching or pondering on ways to turn back time, it’s done. Bangladesh have exited the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and boarded their flight back home from England yesterday.
6 July 2019
How the captains have fared so far
If former Australia skipper Steven Smith and former deputy David Warner had not been handed a one-year ban in March last year following the infamous ‘sandpaper-gate scandal’ during a Test match against South Africa in Cape Town earlier that month, Australia could have
27 June 2019
When rain turns the tables
While it is always a disappointment for teams and fans to see a match washed out, there is far more at stake when such an occurrence
11 June 2019
‘It is Bangladesh’s time’
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, we take a look back on World Cups past through the eyes of Bangladesh’s former World Cup stars. Aminul Islam became the first player to score a hundred for Bangladesh when he struck 145 runs in the Tigers’ first ever Test
24 May 2019
‘350-plus totals will be tough to chase’
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, we take a look back on World Cups past through the eyes of Bangladesh’s former World Cup stars. Akram Khan had featured for the nation’s inaugural World Cup campaign in 1999 and another time after that in the 2003 edition. Akram, who is national selector
22 May 2019
‘Need to play their best’
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, we take a look back on World Cups past through the eyes of Bangladesh’s former World Cup stars. Habibul Bashar played his first World Cup for Bangladesh in 2003 and later led the team in the 2007 World Cup.
21 May 2019
Tigers’ ICC World Cup Stripes: ‘If possible, bring the Cup home’
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, we take a look back on World Cups past through the eyes of Bangladesh’s former World Cup stars. Syed Rasel, who played in six Tests, 52 ODIs and eight T20Is for Bangladesh, was also a pivotal figure in the Tigers’ line up for the 2007 World Cup
18 May 2019
Tigers’ World Cup Stripes: Ashraful’s World Cup anecdote
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, we take a look back on World Cups past through the eyes of Bangladesh’s former World Cup stars. Undoubtedly one of the most talented cricketers to have emerged in Bangladesh’s cricket history, Mohammad Ashraful has singlehandedly led Bangladesh to numerous victories.
7 May 2019
DPL's first-round sparklers
The ongoing Dhaka Premier League (DPL) has reached its business end -- the Super League stage set to begin in a few days' time with
12 April 2019
A multifaceted dysfunction
A glance back through the pages of Bangladesh's Test history will reveal an inescapable reality -- the failure of the country's pacers in
7 March 2019
Bowling a problem too
Almost all the questions were raised regarding Bangladesh's batting, especially the repeated top-order debacles during their 3-0 ODI series whitewash at the hands of hosts New Zealand, which was sealed with an emphatic 88-run defeat in Dunedin on Wednesday.
22 February 2019
The positives and negatives of BPL 6
The sixth edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) closed out yesterday with the final between Dhaka and Comilla at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Like any other tournament, the month long domestic cricket festival saw some positives and negatives throughout.
8 February 2019
Replicate Test conditions in domestic circuit
The currently top-ranked ODI bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been in the spotlight recently due to his fiery performance in the longer version of the game as the Indian's match figures of nine wickets for 86 runs helped defeat hosts Australia by a massive 137-run margin in the third Test at Melbourne.
30 December 2018
Competitive but shady
Although followers of Bangladesh's domestic cricket are fewer in number than fans of the Bangladesh team in the international circuit,
28 December 2018
Change in mentality the biggest takeaway
2018 has been a year of fluctuating fortunes for the Bangladesh women's cricket team, with the Tigresses' Asia Cup triumph in June being a lofty peak and the disappointing show in the ICC Women's World T20 in West Indies the nadir.
25 December 2018
The year of Mehedi's elevation
After losing Tamim Iqbal, their most dependable opener, to a left knuckle fracture sustained in the first match of the Asia Cup against
24 December 2018