The sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will begin from January 5 next year with defending champions Rangpur Riders taking on Chittagong Vikings in the opening game at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

Shuvagata Hom spun Central Zone to a brilliant 77-run win with a sixth five-wicket haul against South Zone in the first round of the Bangladesh Cricket League at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

Shakib Al Hasan claimed the plaudits on the third and ultimately final day of the first Test against the West Indies yesterday as he set a world record. The day prior, Nayeem Hasan had stolen the limelight with a world record of his own while on the first day it was Mominul Haque's century that made headlines.

Although the nation is celebrating Bangladesh's first Test win over West Indies at home and the first over the Caribbean outfit anywhere since 2009, it is worth pointing out that from a near impregnable position Bangladesh's home batsmen failed abjectly in the second innings and, against a side more adept at playing spin, may well have struggled to defend the 204-run target yesterday.

Two inherently flawed teams each putting in wildly uneven performances over two and a half days, and a pitch that tested participants to the limit all combined to produce an engrossing Test that ended with a 64-run win for Bangladesh at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Bangladesh's Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan expresses relief that everything ended positively for the Tigers in the first Test in Chattogram.

After Bangladesh defeated the West Indies for the first time on home soil earlier in the day, more good news follows as Tamim Iqbal's return to the side is seemingly on the cards.

Bangladesh have beaten West Indies for the first time ever on home soil to go 1-0 up in the Test series after winning the first Test at Chattogram's Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium by 64 runs.

Coming in at number 11 after Nayeem Hasan was caught at slip off Jomel Warrican, Mustafizur Rahman was adjudged leg-before off his very first ball.

On Tuesday, bowling to Shakib Al Hasan at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium nets during Bangladesh's optional training session, Nayeem Hasan gave ample evidence of why he should be picked for the first Test against West Indies.

After at one stage being 88 for five in response to Bangladesh's first-innings 324, if West Indies end up winning the first Test in Chattogram, Shimron Hetmyer's 47-ball 63 in a 92-run sixth-wicket partnership with Shane Dowrich will likely be remembered as the turning point.

If the first day was action-packed, yesterday's second was a blockbuster at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

Shannon Gabriel has been suspended for the second Test in Mirpur from November 30 due to displaying unsportsmanlike behaviour towards Imrul Kayes during Bangladesh's first innings of the first Test, the ICC said yesterday.

The fourth and final day is expected to provide a cracker of a finish to the first round of the Bangladesh Cricket League with South Zone needing 228 runs with eight wickets in hand against Central Zone at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium today.

Debutant Nayeem Hasan not only became the youngest Bangladesh bowler to bag five wickets in a Test innings he reached new heights in his maiden Test becoming the youngest bowler in Test cricket to take five wickets on debut.

Bangladesh innings folded within four overs in the second Day of the first Test match as Jomel Warrican took both wickets. Bangladesh added just 9 more their overnight score with Taijul Islam stranded on 39 not out at the other end.

There was a lot of speculation about the nature of the wicket at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (ZACS) leading up to the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies.

A Chattogram Test and a Mominul Haque century is not really new -- the quiet, slightly built Bangladesh left-hander had hit five tons at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium before yesterday's sixth. While it may seem par for the Chattogram course, his 120 on the first day of the first Test against West Indies was a slight departure.

No, this is not Bangladesh Test skipper Shakib Al Hasan turning away just as a West Indies fielder finds an unlikely target. In the 53rd

Fazle Mahmud could have become the fourth centurion after Abul Majid, Naeem Islam and Jahurul Islam but he fell six runs short as South Zone finished their first innings with one-run deficit against Central Zone on the second day of the four-day Bangladesh Cricket League match at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium yesterday.