Sri Lanka openers Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan's first-wicket stand of 282 in Thursday's match against Zimbabwe was the highest in a ICC Cricket World Cup. It also fell just short of the best one-day international opening partnership of all time, which Tharanga holds with...

Ricky Ponting lost his temper on the pitch as Australia were again made to work hard in the field against lowly opposition at the cricket World Cup. The Australia captain's irritation at his team's inability to dismiss Canada turned to outright anger in the 42nd over when teammate...

Sri Lanka did not disappoint home crowd as they registered a 10-wicket win against England. England won the toss and put up 229 runs on board which Upul Tharanga and Dilshan chased down easily. They duo built the highest opening partnership against England in a World Cup game ever

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been selected by Peter Roebuck in his squad of 12 players, which also has Sachin Tendulkar. Apart from Dhoni and Tendulkar, Man-of-the-tournament Yuvraj Singh and joint highest-wicket taker Zaheer Khan are the two other Indians in Roebuck's World Cup squad. The...

All rounder Shane Watson smashed a world record, hitting 15 sixes in an astonishing innings of 185 not out from just 96 deliveries as Australia beat Bangladesh by nine wickets with 24 overs to spare to take a 2-0 lead in a three-match series. Watson's percentage of his team's score...

Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed TM Dilshan as the national captain in all three formats of the game for the tour of England in May 2011. "Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is proud to announce the appointment of T M Dilshan as the national captain in all three formats of the game for Sri Lanka's...

Deccan Chargers dropped too many catches in the first half of the game to allow Kolkata Knight Riders to motor along to 169, and then dropped intensity alarmingly in the chase to succumb to their sixth defeat in nine games. Yusuf Pathan was the biggest beneficiary of Deccan's fielding...

Chris Gayle, who has already scored two centuries in the four game of the IPL this season, showed that he had not given up on the ghost. Chasing a meagre score of 126 for a win, Gayle opened the innings with T Dilshan for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and smacked the ball around from the word...

If you aren't a fan of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, there's good news and bad news. The good news first: Tillakaratne Dilshan has found form late, and will not unleash any more violence in the IPL, since he is headed to England. The bad news is that Chris Gayle is in such form that...

Punjab overhauled Kochi's 178 for seven in 18.5 overs and in the process kept their semi-final ambitions alive. Kochi captain Mahela Jayawardene's blazing half-century and a four-wicket burst from RP Singh were in vain as the new entrants crashed out of the tournament with just five...