New Zealand coach Gary Stead said he saw no advantage to his team's World Cup group stage match against India being abandoned due to rain on Thursday, despite the Indians looking like the team to beat after their opening wins over South Africa and (...)
Former West Indies fast bowler Joel Garner has said the current side stand a decent chance of winning the Cricket World Cup — 40 years since he helped them last lift the trophy with a record five-wicket haul in the final.
Jason Holder's Windies side (...)
India's fielders have been razor-sharp in their opening World Cup games but fielding coach R Sridhar said on Thursday that they cannot afford a drop in their intensity against arch-rivals Pakistan on Sunday.
Pakistan looked sloppy in their defeat by (...)
Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant will join the India team before Sunday's clash with Pakistan as cover for opener Shikhar Dhawan who will miss the next three to four games with a hand injury, assistant coach Sanjay Bangar said on (...)
New Zealand's steady supply of left-handed batsmen will come in handy in Thursday's World Cup match against an Indian team without that variety in their top order, senior Kiwi batsman Ross Taylor said on the eve of the match.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan's (...)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday defended not scheduling reserve days for group matches at the rain-marred World Cup and blamed the disruptions on "extremely unseasonable weather".
A record three matches have already been either (...)
A hand injury suffered in the match against Australia has thrown Shikhar Dhawan's further World Cup participation into doubt but the in-form opener will remain with the team, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.
Dhawan was batting on 24 (...)
New Zealand cannot afford to squander even half-chances against a team of India's caliber in Thursday's World Cup match at Trent Bridge, Kiwi fast bowler Lockie Ferguson said.
The right-arm paceman will be spending much of his 28th birthday trying (...)
Mitchell Starc saw plenty of positives after his five-wicket haul helped Australia to a 15-run World Cup win over West Indies on Thursday but it could have been a different story.
The fastest man to take 150 wickets in 50 overs cricket dismissed (...)
Fast bowler Mitchell Starc's five-wicket haul and a defiant 92 by Nathan Coulter-Nile helped Australia beat West Indies by 15 runs at Trent Bridge on Thursday to secure their second consecutive win at the Cricket World Cup.
Chasing 289 for victory, (...)
West Indies captain Jason Holder is playing down his team's traditional rivalry with Australia ahead of the Cricket World Cup match between the sides at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
West Indies beat Australia in the first World Cup final in 1975 and (...)
England's Jason Roy hit a superb century and Ben Stokes carried them home as they beat Pakistan by three wickets at Trent Bridge on Friday, surviving a middle-order wobble to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
Babar Azam's century helped (...)
England amassed a world record one-day international total of 444 for three as they crushed Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge on Tuesday to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
Jos Buttler struck the last ball of the innings for (...)
Caroline Wozniacki lost in her second match since coming back from injury, falling to Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday at the Nottingham Open.
The former top-ranked player from Denmark, seeded third, was playing at a tournament (...)
Tree surgeon Michael Hickling's best mate likes to sing while they work — he's a parrot.
Apparently Sammy's favorite tune isn't the Birdy Song, he prefers The Beatles and Chuck Berry which he belts out in a cockney accent.
Michael and Sammy, 46, (...)
Stuart Broad launched a late counter-attack with a blazing 64 to help England fight back against India on the first day of the second Test Friday.
India was 24 for one at the close after England had been bowled out for 221 after tea with rookie (...)