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Australia’s previous visit to Bangladesh was cancelled due to security concerns © Getty Images Australia and Bangladesh are at odds over the timing and format of the tour tentatively scheduled for later this year after the previously planned visit by Steven Smiths’ team was scuppered due to security concerns. While the Future Tours Programme has Australia visiting Bangladesh in July for two Test matches as per the original 2015 plan,…

Wahab Riaz: ‘We always try and bowl and attack them where we know they struggle a lot’ © AFP Pakistan registered a seven-wicket win in Port of Spain on Sunday to win the T20I series against West Indies 3-1. They also claimed their sixth victory in seven T20Is against West Indies in a little over six months; after sweeping them in the UAE in September, they have now won in…

Wahab Riaz: ‘We always try and bowl and attack them where we know they struggle a lot’ © AFP Pakistan registered a seven-wicket win in Port of Spain on Sunday to win the T20I series against West Indies 3-1. They also claimed their sixth victory in seven T20Is against West Indies in a little over six months; after sweeping them in the UAE in September, they have now won in…

Wahab Riaz: ‘We always try and bowl and attack them where we know they struggle a lot’ © AFP Pakistan registered a seven-wicket win in Port of Spain on Sunday to win the T20I series against West Indies 3-1. They also claimed their sixth victory in seven T20Is against West Indies in a little over six months; after sweeping them in the UAE in September, they have now won in…

Wahab Riaz: ‘We always try and bowl and attack them where we know they struggle a lot’ © AFP Pakistan registered a seven-wicket win in Port of Spain on Sunday. That meant they had won the T20I series against West Indies 3-1, and claimed their sixth victory in seven T20Is against them in a little over six months; after sweeping them in the UAE in September, they had now won…

Pakistan 127 for 3 (Shehzad 53) beat West Indies 124 for 8 (Walton 40, Hasan 2-12, Shadab 2-16)Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Hasan Ali bowled back-to-back maidens and picked up two wickets to wreck West Indies © AFP In a nutshell A no-contest between Pakistan’s bowling attack and the West Indies battling line-up. There were 66 dot balls in the innings – that’s 11 overs out of 20 – and eight…

Thisara Perera has been rewarded for his good show in the ODI series against Bangladesh © Associated Press Kusal Mendis has been omitted from Sri Lanka’s T20I squad for the two-match series against Bangladesh, while spin-bowling allrounder Shehan Jayasuriya has been called up. Also in the squad is Thisara Perera – who had not been in Sri Lanka’s recent T20I squad to Australia – and opener Danushka Gunathilaka, who returns…

Evin Lewis’ nine sixes where the joint third-most for West Indies in a T20I innings © AFP Evin Lewis has played eight T20Is for West Indies, a short-format team traditionally known for its power-hitters. He has crossed ten only two times in those eight matches; the first time he went on to a hundred with nine sixes; the second time, he struck 91 off 51 with nine sixes. Only Marlon…

Mashrafe Mortaza has again fallen foul of a slow over-rate © AFP Bangladesh’s limited-overs captain Mashrafe Mortaza has been suspended for one ODI, and fined 40% of his match fee, for maintaining a slow over-rate during the third one-dayer against Sri Lanka in Colombo. It was Mashrafe’s second over-rate penalty in 12 months after he was also sanctioned following the first ODI against New Zealand in Christchurch on December 26….