Although the Bangladesh national cricket team could make a sublime start in 2022 by securing a monumental eight-wicket win against New Zealand in the first Test at their home but they failed to sustain the momentum until the end of the year that pointed out their dearth in the longest format of cricket since their inception.
They further featured in nine games in the white outfits however couldn’t earn a single win and bagged a draw against their Sri Lankan counterpart at their home in the midway of the year.
Apart from that, there is no single success they could achieve in this version of cricket in the farewell year that pushed them to the bottom of the ICC World Test Championship points table.
Although they generated a finest opportunity to finish the year on a bright spot by handing the touring India a defeat as they could reduce them to 74-4 in the second innings, who were just needed 145 in the recently concluded series, however a crucial 71-run stand between Ravichandran Ashwin and Sreyash Iyer shattered their dreams.
In one-day internationals, which is widely known as their favorite format, they could seal five series win out four with a notificational 2-1 victory against the South Africa at their lodge, however a 2-1 defeat against Zimbabwe deemed their successes they earned throughout the year.
And in T20Is, they could do something praiseworthy by overcoming their long-enduring woes in Australia by securing two victories in the main phase that they couldn’t after in the marquee tournament after 2007.
However, in the previous regional competition, the Asia Cup, in August-September, led by Mahmudullah, Bangladesh finished with a poor show as they failed to earn a single win, that impelled the Bangladesh Cricket Board to remove their skipper and replaced Shakib Al Hasan for the second tenure.
Simultaneously the Tigers cricket administration had to appoint Sridaharan Sriram as a technical consultant removing Russell Doming from his role as a head coach in this version for the T20Is until the T20 World Cup.
Earlier, in June, taking the Tigers’ ceaseless debacle into consideration, the board named Shakib Al Hasan as their captain, axing Mominul Haque.
In the T20I, they vied in 16 ties in the year, however could grab only six victories and among them two came from their Arab Emirates counterpart, the Arab land they visited for of their build up for the T20 World Cup.
And another two wins came against Afghanistan, Zimbabwe during their bilateral series, while remaining victories they secured against Netherlands and Zimbabwe in the T20 World Cup in Australia.
Considering the Tigers' ceaseless woes in Test cricket and to overcome it the BCB introduced Duke Ball in the country’s first-class cricket for the first time in the outgoing year.
They also handed a three-year contract to the franchise owners of the Bangladesh Premier League for the first time to make the country’s lone glamorous Twenty20 competition competitive and noteworthy.
And inside the year, a total of three players from Bangladesh, Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, and Mustafizur Rahman, have been roped in for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League for the first time, starting on April 1, 2023.
Aside from the on-field affairs, there were some off-field affairs as well that could draw the attention of the fans across the nation.
Ace all-rounder Shakib underwent a severe denunciation after he signed a deal with Betwinner, a gambling website, although he eventually cancelled the deal with the entity after the BCB announced a warning.
The year was also the most discussed after two of Bangladesh’s senior campaigners, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim, announced their retirement from the T20Is.
