New Zealand retained a state of emergency in parts of its flood-battered South Island on Sunday as authorities weighed damage in the region hardest hit by four days of torrential rain.
Last week's rains in northern and central areas forced more than (...)
Captain Kane Williamson and Neil Broom both flirted with centuries as New Zealand cruised to an eight-wicket victory over Bangladesh in their third One-Day International to complete a 3-0 series sweep at Saxton Oval in Nelson Saturday.
Williamson (...)
New Zealand beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the third one-day international between New Zealand and Bangladesh at Saxton Oval to sweep the three-match series:
Bangladesh: 236-9 in 50 overs (Tamim Iqbal 59, Imrul Kayes 44, Nurul Hasan 44; (...)
The fourth match of the one-day series between New Zealand and Sri Lanka was rained out Saturday, abandoned after just nine overs were bowled and leaving the host with a 2-1 series lead going into the last match.
Heavy rain overnight and throughout (...)
Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his 47th one-day half century to anchor a much-improved Sri Lanka to a morale-boosting eight-wicket victory Thursday that kept its one-day series against New Zealand alive.
Dilshan, who has scored more than 10,000 one-day (...)
Dinesh Chandimal will lead the Sri Lankan Twenty20 team in New Zealand following a knee injury to Lasith Malinga, the country's cricket board has said.
Regular Twenty20 captain Malinga sustained the knee injury during the home series against West (...)
Inspirational Italy captain Sergio Parisse steered his side to a 53-17 win over Russia in their rugby World Cup Pool C match at Trafalgar Park on Tuesday.
Parisse was instrumental in at least three of Italy's six first-half tries, scoring the first (...)
run homer in the 14th inning gave the Texas Rangers an 8-6 win over the Detroit Tigers in an American League game Monday that was marred by two injuries.
The Tigers lost their sixth straight game despite two home runs from Miguel Cabrera, while the (...)
