Hannan Sarkar

Bangladesh A's three-day tour opener against the Maharashtra Cricket Association Under-22s ended in a draw in Nasik

Bangladesh play their 21st Test match tomorrow when taking on Australia at the second new Test venue in the world within a week, at Cairns in northern Queensland

A round-up of the sixth round of matches of the National Cricket League in Bangladesh

The National Cricket League, Bangladesh's premier domestic competition, got underway with the defending champions in the four-day event, Dhaka, holding onto a draw against Khulna at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur

Batsmen who have been out to the first ball of a Test

Enamul Haque jr and Aftab Ahmed in squad for second test

Alok Kapali and Hannan Sarkar recalled for first test

Javed Omar has been recalled into the Bangladesh one-day side for the Asia Cup, which begins in July in Sri Lanka

A captain's innings from Heath Streak - and the nervousness which comes with not being used to winning from Bangladesh - enabled Zimbabwe to scrape to a three-wicket victory which had seemed highly unlikely when they slumped to 124 for 6 chasing 183

Bangladesh's selectors have included eight of the team currently touring Zimbabwe in a 25-strong Bangladesh A squad for two four-day matches and five one-day games against the Zimbabwe A team, who arrive in Dhaka on March 10 for their nmonth-long

England ended the second day with the edge over Bangladesh, but not after another alarming collapse and a serious injury to Marcus Trescothick

If Nasser Hussain was still captain, he would spend this evening's press conference bemoaning his bowlers' lack of "mystery"

Bangladesh proved yesterday's resistance was no fluke with a determined display of batting to finish on 245 for 6, with a lead of 153

Steve Harmison made an early breakthrough for England with the wickets of Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar before bad light stopped play

If it's an opening ceremony and England are involved, you can be pretty sure that a soggy affair is in the offing

Bangladesh never quite got themselves in a position to mount a serious attack on a target of 258, let alone the revised 244 from 44 overs

Strange as it may sound, both Bangladesh and Pakistan have reason to look forward to the third Test at Multan, which starts on Wednesday (Sept 3)

Bangladesh rode on a run-a-ball 71 from Habibul Bashar, and useful contributions from most of the top order, to reach 278 for 9 at the end of the first day's play at the National Stadium in Karachi

Concerned at the manner in which Australia lost the last three one-day internationals in the West Indies, Ricky Ponting has indicated that he won't take anything for granted in the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh