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Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe are treasuring a scintillating 2026 so far. They started the year with a T20 World Cup campaign where they defeated giants like Australia and Sri Lanka to progress past Group Stage for the first time ever in the shortest format under their T20I captain Sikandar Raza. It was the turn of Richard Ngarava to register his name into the history books as their Test captain and he did so with his debut game in-charge. Zimbabwe went on to record their biggest win in Test cricket as they trounced Bangladesh by a margin of an innings and 85 runs topping their win versus Afghanistan last year by an innings and 73 runs.  A small nation in the island of Africa, Zimbabwe has produced a few memorable performances like winning Test matches against nations like Pakistan and India in the past. In fact, an interesting stat: Out of their 16 wins in this format, Zimbabwe has won all their Test matches against only Asian nations barring Sri Lanka. World Cup wins in t...

Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe A fierce Bangladesh cricket team is embarking on a first away tour this year after touching down in Zimbabwe for a one-off Test, 3 ODIs & 3 T20Is starting this Sunday. Bangladesh are slowly becoming a complete cricketing side in at least the longer formats but this year they have been absolutely remarkable. Always a force to reckon at home, the sub-continent nation has lost only one series this year in all formats. Brushing aside the heartbreak of not playing in this year's T20 World Cup due to political reasons, Bangladesh cricket team has won ODIs by a margin of 2-1 versus Pakistan, New Zealand & Australia followed by a 2-0 Test series win versus Pakistan, a 1-1 draw in the shortest format with New Zealand but lost their previous T20I series 0-3 to Australia, albeit all at home in the past three months. The impressive part of this run has been the successful transition post the absence of the golden generation in Bangladesh cricket. Only Mushiq...