Australia have replaced India as the No. 1 Test team in the ICC men’s rankings after the annual update. India, though, have retained the top spot in the ODI and T20I rankings. In this cycle, the matches played only after May 2021 are taken into consideration for the ranking, which means India’s 2-1 series win…
Bangladesh 126 for 2 (Tanzid 67*, Towhid 33*) beat Zimbabwe 124 (Madande 43, Taskin 3-14, Saifuddin 3-15) by eight wickets wickets Bangladesh’s bowlers set up a comfortable eight-wicket victory in the first T20 against Zimbabwe by dismissing the visitors for 124 in Chattogram. Rain interrupted the chase twice, but debutant Tanzid Hasan remained unbeaten, steering…
Bangladesh 142 for 4 (Towhid 37*, Jongwe 3-35) beat Zimbabwe 138 for 7 (Campbell 45, Bennett 44*, Taskin 2-18, Rishad 2-33) by six wickets Towhid Hridoy kept his calm and hit pressure-releasing boundaries to steer Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory in the second T20I against Zimbabwe in Chattogram. The home side chased down the target…
Bangladesh 165 for 5 (Hridoy 57, Jaker 44, Muzarabani 3-14) beat Zimbabwe 156 for 9 (Akram 34*, Marumani 31, Saifuddin 3-40) by nine runs Bangladesh saw off some late batting fightback from Zimbabwe tailenders Faraz Akram and Blessing Muzarabani to clinch the T20I series in the third game in Chattogram. They won by nine runs…
Bangladesh are 3-0 up and have the T20I series in their bag, but a section of their fans aren’t really celebrating these results. Instead, they are dismissing them for coming against Zimbabwe, a lower-ranked side. They also have a theory that the BCB organises matches against Zimbabwe whenever the senior men’s side goes through a…
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has cleared Wessly Madhevere and Brandon Mavuta to return to competitive cricket after they completed their four-month suspensions for drug use. The ban was imposed after the two players had tested positive for a recreational drug during an in-house dope test in December. As part of their rehabilitation, Madhevere and Mavuta were…
Bangladesh 143 (Tanzid 52, Soumya 41, Jongwe 3-20) beat Zimbabwe 138 (Campbell 31, Shakib 4-35, Mustafizur 3-19) by five runs Zimbabwe again got close to Bangladesh’s total but couldn’t quite get the job done. This time in Dhaka, Bangladesh beat them by five runs to extend their lead in the T20I series to 4-0. With…
Zimbabwe 158 for 2 (Raza 72*, Bennett 70, Shakib 1-9) beat Bangladesh 157 for 6 (Mahmudullah 54, Shanto 36, Bennett 2-20) by eight wickets Brian Bennett‘s all-round show and Sikandar Raza‘s unbeaten 72 helped Zimbabwe seal a consolation win in the T20I series against Bangladesh. The visitors won by eight wickets in the fifth T20I…
The rest of the support staff for the Zimbabwe team will be appointed in consultation with Sammons, ZC said in a statement, while adding that Elton Chigumbura, the former captain of Zimbabwe, had been appointed head coach of the nation’s Under-19 team. Norbert Manyande, who played first-class cricket in Zimbabwe before going on to feature…
The T20 World Cup is on course to overtake the 50-over World Cup as the “most important” ICC event to players around the world, according to new survey data seen by ESPNcricinfo. The newly-rebranded World Cricketers Association (WCA), formerly FICA, conducts regular surveys which are circulated to several hundred players around the world. In the…
