European and US retailers — including Primark — have cancelled about $1.5bn (€1.4bn) of Bangladesh garment orders as the coronavirus outbreak roils demand.

Bangladesh's match with Sri Lanka in Bristol, due to be played yesterday was the third to be abandoned due to rain at this tournament - setting an unwanted record for the most ever.

Burma and Bangladesh have signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Burma's Rakhine state.

Burma has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to "dehumanising apartheid", Amnesty International has said in a report.

Burma's embattled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has called for national unity and created a committee that will coordinate all international and local assistance in violence-hit Rakhine state.

Ireland will play Pakistan on home soil in May in their first ever Test match.

Bangladesh wants to protect vulernable children from getting harmed or involved in criminal activities.

Bangladeshi authorities have summoned Burma's envoy to protest against violations of their airspace amid an exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in the country.

Burma's military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state.

A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma has capsized, drowning at least five people, as the UN said the crisis has pushed more than 125,000 refugees into Bangladesh.

About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Burma and crossed into Bangladesh, with hundreds stranded in no man's land at the border, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

Ireland have been awarded Test status and given full member status following a meeting of the International Cricket Council [ICC], the sport’s governing body, in London yesterday.

Some 1,500 people made the journey from Ireland to Lord’s for yesterday’s one-day international against England, and most of them would have come with alternative plans in case of an early finish.

Ireland could make their Test cricket debut as early as next year, after the International Cricket Council approved a new constitution that outlines a Test pathway for associate teams.

Ireland’s women cricketers are through to the Super Six stage of the Women’s World Cup Qualifier in Sri Lanka following India’s emphatic nine-wicket win over Zimbabwe.

Security officials were searching for clues and criminal masterminds who might have set in motion the bloody hostage crisis that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages, in the diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s central bank governor Atiur Rahman has resigned after $81 million (€73m) was stolen from the bank’s account at the New York Fed in one of the largest cyber heists in history.

Ireland ended a disappointing ICC World Twenty20 campaign with a 12-run defeat to Holland in a match reduced to six overs due to rain in Dharamsala.

Ireland are out of the ICC World Twenty20 after heavy rain prevented a result in their match against Bangladesh in Dharamsala.

A new toll has put the number of pilgrims killed during the crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month at 2,110 at least.

Cricket Ireland are “hopeful” a new national team coach will be in place for the showpiece one-day international against England at Malahide on May 8.

“The biggest game in Ireland’s cricket history,” is what Niall O’Brien calls tomorrow night’s shoot-out with Pakistan for a quarter-final berth. 

Warren Gatland wants Wales to win their ‘backyard’ scrap with Celtic ‘brothers’ Ireland. 

Tim Bresnan believes England have been "left behind" in one-day cricket after their embarrassing World Cup exit.

As he trudged off at Malahide on September 12, having scored a 31-ball six in a one-day international against Scotland, Andy Balbirnie might have dwelled upon a sense of missed opportunity.

When Ireland attempt to make it three wins from three Cricket World Cup games against South Africa in the early hours of tomorrow morning (3.30am Irish time), they will come across a man who did much to lift Ireland to their position today.

After the euphoria of Ireland’s successful overhaul of 305 against the West Indies, some blithely assumed that the UAE would meekly subside.

Four years ago, John Mooney flicked James Anderson to midwicket to complete Ireland’s stupendous run chase against England.

A leading member of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party has been sentenced to death by a tribunal dealing with war crimes involving the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.

When O’Brien walked out to bat in Bangalore during the 2011 World Cup, Ireland needed 222 runs to win in 27.4 overs and England’s fielders were already going through the motions.

Cricket: Ireland batsman Andy Balbernie believes his team-mate Ed Joyce’s experience could be crucial at the World Cup, which gets underway this weekend.

Ireland began their World Cup preparations with a five-wicket defeat to Sydney grade club Randwick Petersham.

Former Australia paceman Brett Lee has agreed a short-term deal to act as Ireland’s bowling coach in the build-up to the World Cup.

William Porterfield, one of five in the squad set to take part in a third World Cup for Ireland, will lead the same group of players named last month for the training camp and tri-series in Dubai against fellow qualifiers Scotland and Afghanistan.

A special tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced to death a senior leader of the largest Islamist party, the second capital sentence in a week for the mass killings during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people has capsized in a river in Bangladesh, officials said today.

It is new territory for the Irish women’s cricket team as they competed at their first ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh today.

Shakib Al Hasan put in a match-winning performance as Bangladesh saw off Ireland in a World Twenty20 warm-up clash in Fatullah.

Bangladesh’s ruling party has won one of the most violent elections in the country’s history, marred by street fighting, low turnout and a boycott by the opposition which made the result a foregone conclusion.