“I agree that his [Hathurusingha] man management style and communication is totally different. His biggest problem is his difficulty in adjusting to our country’s culture,” the BCB president said on Hathurusingha, whose contract will run till the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.

Bangladesh will host the Asia Cup in 2027, according to an Invitation for Expression of Interest issued by the Asian Cricket Council.

Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha’s arrival to the country has been delayed due to visa issues, a Bangladesh Cricket Board official said on Monday.

BCB Green opener Anamul Haque Bijoy fell on nervous nineties while Yasir Ali and Mushfiqur Rahim scored fifties on Day One of the three-day practice match against BCB Red at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Monday.

Bangladesh Cricket Board High Performance skipper Mahmudul Hasan Joy emerged as a trump card with the ball as his maiden five-wicket haul earned his side a nail-biting five-run win over Pakistan Shaheens in the second four-day match in Darwin. 

Joy finished with 5-21 in 13 overs while Rejaur Rahman Raja and Hasan Murad took three and two wickets respectively as Pakistan Shaheens got bundled out for 290 in the second innings, chasing 296.

"We sacrificed a lot for the last 10-15 years. Finally we won this award, this trophy," said player of the series Athapaththu.

England swept the three-match series against the West Indies on Sunday as they won the final Test at Edgbaston by 10 wickets inside three days.

The BCB president also informed that the next ICC board meeting will take place in Bangladesh, where the ICC election could also take place.

Skipper Suryakumar Yadav and Yashasvi Jaiswal powered India to a seven-wicket win in the rain-hit second T20 international against Sri Lanka and clinch the series on Sunday.

West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite is optimistic his side will be better for the experience of being whitewashed by England when they face South Africa next month.

Set 82 to win, England finished on 87-0 in just 7.2 overs. Stokes -- opening in place of the injured Zak Crawley -- was 55 not out off a mere 28 balls as England completed a 3-0 series whitewash with more than two days to spare.

The previous such instance was in 2018, when Bangladesh beat India by three wickets.

Set just 158 to win, Ireland slumped to 33-5 at the close of Saturday's third day, with Zimbabwe left-arm quick Richard Ngarava doing the bulk of the damage in a sensational burst of 4-12 in four overs.

Having lost the opening match yesterday, Shakib Al Hasan and Shoriful Islam’s Bangla Tigers Mississauga bounced back in the Global T20 Canada tournament with a 22-run win over Vancouver Knights today.

West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin will return to international cricket two years after retiring from the national team, Cricket West Indies (CWI) said on Saturday.

Richard Ngarava took four Ireland top-order wickets as Zimbabwe hit back in dramatic style to take charge of a one-off Test in Belfast on Saturday.

Bangladesh’s lacklustre Women’s Asia Cup mission ended on Friday with a humiliating 10-wicket defeat to India in the semifinal, a drubbing that could be the precursor to more such embarrassments in the forthcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup at home.

England were in a commanding position as they took a 94-run first innings lead over the West Indies and then had the tourists 33-2 at stumps on the second day of the third and final Test on Saturday.

New head coach Gautam Gambhir and T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav enjoyed a winning start as India secured a 43-run victory over hosts Sri Lanka to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Twenty20 series on Saturday.