The “shadow team” is to be called Bangladesh Tigers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has given due importance to the expansion of other games like tennis alongside football and cricket.

Bangladesh under-19s cruised to a six-wicket victory over their New Zealand counterparts in the first Youth ODI at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, New Zealand today.

Bangladesh posted 238 for 8 wickets as Mushfiqur Rahim remained unbeaten on a 110-ball 98. Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat in the second ODI against Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium.

Navigating pigs and goats as they practise on a dusty paddock, a group of young East Timorese are hoping to copy the fairy-tale rise of Afghanistan by making it as Asia's latest emerging cricket nation.

Jason Roy and Joe Root scored centuries as England clinched a record-breaking victory over West Indies in a display of pure power hitting and shot making by both sides in their opening one-day international in Barbados on Wednesday.

Jason Roy and Joe Root scored centuries as England clinched a record-breaking victory over West Indies in a display of pure power hitting and shot making by both sides in their opening one-day international in Barbados on Wednesday.

Praise and congratulations poured in for Virat Kohli's India on Monday after the tourists won their first-ever Test series in Australia, underlining their world number one ranking.

Captain Virat Kohli determinedly led India's fightback on an engrossing day two on Saturday, blunting Australia's bowling attack to leave the second test hanging in the balance.

Tim Southee's prophecy before the start of the first test against Sri Lanka came true on the opening day of the match as he took his eighth five-wicket haul at the Basin Reserve on Saturday.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announces a 12-member BCB XI squad for the three-day practice match against Zimbabwe scheduled for October 29-31.

An authoritative hundred from young Shimron Hetmyer and an overall drop of the guard from the Bangladesh players allowed the West Indies to post a challenging total of 270 in the second one-day international at the Providence Stadium in Guayana on Wednesday.

Former South African player Neil Mckenzie has been appointed as the batting consultant of the Tigers, a BCB press release confirmed on Friday.

Joe Root's composed hundred laid the platform for England's 86-run win over India in the second one-day international at Lord's on Saturday.

South Africa collapse dramatically against Sri lanka's spin to crash to 73 all out in the first Test in Galle, their lowest total since readmission to international cricket.

India's spin sensation Kuldeep Yadav takes a six wicket haul and Rohit Sharma piles on the runs as the tourists win their opening ODI against England with ease on Thursday.

South Africa are four for one at stumps in response to Sri Lanka's first innings score of 287 on day one of the opening Test in Galle.

The Indian women's cricket coach quits just over year into the job after a string of defeats and apparently alienating players, four months before the World Twenty20.

Fakhar Zaman is in the "best form of his life" after the opener cracked a career-best 91 to help set up Pakistan's six-wicket win over Australia in the final of the Twenty20 tri-series

Former captains Rahul Dravid of India and Australia's Ricky Ponting inductes in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame together with England women's wicketkeeper-batter Claire Taylor, the world governing body says.