Dead and buried at one stage, a spirited Bangladesh fought back to record a thrilling two-wicket win against England in the ICC CWC. England suffered a shock two-wicket defeat against Bangladesh and will almost certainly need to beat the West Indies in their final Group B match to avoid another...

New Zealand secured a surprise ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 semi-final berth with a thrilling 49-run victory over South Africa in Dhaka on Friday. The Black Caps were first thankful to Jesse Ryder (83) and Ross Taylor (43), who rescued them from 16 for two at one stage and helped them post 221 for...

Opener Morgan's 69-run stand with Jacques Kallis (45) took Kolkata within touching distance of their 157-run target, made possible earlier by Kochi skipper Mahela Jayawardene (55) and Brad Hodge (35). But Kochi staged a late turnaround thanks to Raiphi Gomez's double strike and Vinay...

West Indies beat Pakistan by 40 runs in the first Test. The build up to the first Test was dogged by public rows between senior players, while the likes of Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo were omitted from the squad. However, Sammy's side pulled together as they recorded their first Test win...

Chris Gayle was the star yet again, smashing 89 off 46 balls in a 113-run opening stand with Mayank Agarwal (41) to lead Bangalore to 185 for four. In reply, Mumbai failed to get going despite a valiant 40 from skipper Sachin Tendulkar, as his counterpart Daniel Vettori picked up figures of...

After weeks of growing tension and speculation Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's recently axed one-day captain, has announced his retirement from the international game. It is, however, a "conditional" retirement in protest against the way he has been "humiliated" by the PCB, a...

Shoaib Akhtar has downplayed the remarks on Sachin by saying that he was only referring to a particular incident when he felt the star Indian "was trying to save himself." "I never said that Sachin was scared of me. I just said in the context about players not being comfortable on...

Debutant spinner Ashwin snapped six wickets and Sachin Tendulkar completed 15,000 Test runs as India fought back to be in a winning position. India were 152-2 after being set a challenging 276 to win the match. Earlier, Chanderpaul (47) and captain Darren Sammy (42) led a recovery but Ashwin...

A dominant India put themselves on course for a series-clinching victory even as West Indies fought resolutely in their second innings to delay the inevitable after conceding a huge 478-run lead.The West Indies were dismissed for 153 in their first innings as spinner Pragyan Ojha took four...