Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said in the pre-match press conference that his team would have to be prepared for anything when they play the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Dambulla today.

The ongoing tour of Sri Lanka seems to have a recurring theme -- that of Bangladesh confounding expectations.

The Tournament Committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday decided to re-verify the ages of footballers.

From the sea shores of Colombo, where they completed the Test series with a four-wicket win in their 100th Test, the Bangladesh cricket team travelled to the mountainous interior of Sri Lanka.

The Young Tigers Under-16 National Cricket Tournament got underway at the Tangail Stadium yesterday with Barisal and Rajshahi playing the opening match of the tournament.

Bangladesh will play their one-day warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Board President's XI at the Colombo Cricket Club Ground today.

Tamim Iqbal, the man-of-the-match in Bangladesh’s historic four-wicket win in the second Test match against Sri Lanka today, said the 259-run defeat in the first Test in Galle worked as an impetus for their win in Colombo.

History is made at Colombo’s P Sara Oval today when Bangladesh win their centenary Test by four wickets and level the 2-match series at 1-1.

Bangladesh limited-overs captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza left for Colombo yesterday along with Shuvagata Hom and Nurul Hasan and newcomer Sanjamul Islam with the hopes of winning the three-match ODI and two-match T20I series against Sri Lanka.

Former Bangladesh Under-19 pacer Mohammad Saifuddin and fast bowler Abul Hasan will fly out to Colombo tomorrow to take part in the one-day warm-up game on March 22 ahead of the limited-overs leg of Bangladesh’s tour of Sri Lanka, which starts with the first ODI on March 25 in Dambulla.

Bangladesh ODI and T20I captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza along with three members of ODI squad for the Sri Lanka series left for Colombo from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka today.

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza hogged the spotlight on the opening day of the two-day players' transfer for the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Shakib Al Hasan may have grabbed all the headlines yesterday, but there was a debutant without whom Bangladesh would probably not have been able to accumulate the 129-run lead that placed the visitors ahead in the match.

Call it resiliency or a perverse desire to prove naysayers wrong, but Bangladesh have made it a habit of turning in a stellar performance when their fans or critics least expect it.

It was once a major event in the domestic cricket scene, but the attraction of the players' transfer for the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League has gradually diminished, with the focus shifting to international cricket.

Things have not been so great for Imrul Kayes of late. He picked up an injury while batting well in Wellington in January, and an aggravation of that injury kept him out of Bangladesh's maiden Test in India in February.

After an ending like yesterday's, when Bangladesh lost three wickets inside the last four overs to hand the initiative back to the Sri Lankans, one can imagine the dressing room full of people at sixes and sevens trying to convince someone to come out to the press conference and provide an explanation for the events.

Bangladesh trailed Sri Lanka by 124 runs with five wickets remaining in their first innings when the umpire called stumps on day-2 of the second Test of the series at Colombo’s P Sara Oval today.

Bangladesh limited-overs captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will return to cricket today at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium today as he leads out Team Green against a Nasir Hossain-led Team Red in the first practice match for the Emerging Teams Asia Cup.

Amid growing tensions regarding ICC officials’ concern about the bowling actions of Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny being suspect, which has left the Bangladesh team livid, pacer Taskin wishes for the best.