The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the dates for the first round of fixtures for the four-day first-class ICC Intercontinental Cup 2015-17, which features Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Namibia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Scotland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The side that wins the round-robin league... Read more
By Sandipan Banerjee It has often been argued that cricket is not a global sport. They say the sport has hardly any existence outside commonwealth countries. However, this is not quite true. Cricket has actually been played in the most bizarre places of the world, even in North Korea... Read more
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies Cricket Board announced a new sponsorship and partnership deal with JetBlue Airways. The New York-based airline is the official partner for the 2015 Series of International Cricket. The season of international cricket will feature three Tests between West Indies and England for the... Read more
Bangladesh broke many records in the second innings of the first Test against Pakistan in Khulna. Openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes are currently involved in a record partnership for the opening wicket surpassing their own record against Zimbabwe at Chittagong. Tamim and Imrul will look on to pile... Read more
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies Cricket Board announced today that left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul has been added to the Test squad for the third and final match against England. The West Indies will now have a 15-member squad for the third Test against England, starting on Friday at... Read more
By CricketCountry Staff Mominul Haque‘s knock of 80 against Pakistan in the first Test at Khulna ensured that they ended the day on top. On the way to his knock, Mominul broke a special record, he has scored a half-century or more in his last 10 Tests. Only four... Read more
By Ayush Gupta Bangladesh take on Pakistan in the first of the two-match Test series at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on Tuesday. Coming off an impressive 3-0 victory in the One-Day International (ODI) series, followed by the one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) win, Bangladesh will look to... Read more
CARICOM and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have agreed to establish a panel to conduct a review of the governance structure of the Board. This was the key outcome of a near five-hour long meeting between the CARICOM Cricket Governance Committee and the Directors and Management of the... Read more
By Sandipan Banerjee Exactly one week ago, Bangladesh celebrated the ‘Nababarsha’ (Bengali New Year). Now here comes their ‘Nababarsa’ present on behalf of Mashrafe Mortaza and Co. A 3-0 series victory against Pakistan. Thanks to the maiden and unbeaten hundred by young Soumya Sarkar and a responsible half century... Read more
Cricket South Africa (CSA) today launched the 16-team Africa T20 Cup which will be the African curtain-raiser to the 2015-16 season. Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia have accepted invitations to compete in the event with the other participants being the 12 CSA Affiliates as well as Associate Member, KZN Inland.... Read more