Tigers return to winning ways
Bangladesh players celebrate as Mehedi Hasan Miraz (C) sends back Sri Lanka batsman Ashen Bandara during the first ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The off-spinner took four wickets for 30 as the hosts won the match by 33 runs. Photo: FIROZ AHMED
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
The first match of the three-match ODI series started with some uncertainty due to coronavirus threat, but Bangladesh brushed aside everything and returned to winning ways in the fifty-over format, beating Sri Lanka by 33 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
Just hours before the start of the game, news broke out that two players and an official from the Sri Lankan contingent had tested positive for coronavirus.
Bangladesh ended their 10-match winless streak in international cricket beating Sri Lanka by 33 runs in the first game of the three-match ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Sunday. Off-spinner Mehidy Hasan played a key role in their victory as he finished with
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Tigers eye end to abysmal run
Take on SL in first ODI today
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh will be looking to seal their first victory across formats since January when they take on Sri Lanka in the first of a three-match ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.
The day-night contest is scheduled to start at 1:00pm. The second and third ODIs are scheduled for May 25 and 28 respectively and will be played at the same venue at the same time.
The Tigers have been in an abysmal run of form, with their last victory coming against West Indies at home in an ODI in January this year. Since then, Bangladesh played four Tests (two against West Indies at home and two away to Sri Lanka), three ODIs and three T20Is against New Zealand and have lost all the matches except the one drawn Test against Sri Lanka in Pallekele last month.
Khaled Mahmud tests positive for Covid-19
ESPNCricInfo
22 May 2021, 19:43 GMT+10
Khaled Mahmud, the former Bangladesh captain and current BCB director, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently isolating at home.
Mahmud, 49, was the Bangladesh team director on their recent Test tour of Sri Lanka and was supposed to have the same role for the home ODI series that starts on Sunday, against the same opponents. He is also a coach in the Dhaka Premier League, which is scheduled to begin on May 31.
Mahmud had reportedly tested negative twice after returning from Sri Lanka but tested positive recently, according to a board official. The Bangladesh squad had started training on May 18, after the Eid break, but Mahmud did not join them.