Abhishek Purohit

India at the 2015 World Cup will be minus the solid core of players that carried them through the years between World Cups 2003 and 2011 - those players, it is now confirmed, had run their course by end of the victorious 2011 campaign

Manoj Tiwary feels he has matured as a person and that it has brought him more consistency, as reflected in two centuries and two fifties from his last four List-A innings

Manoj Tiwary's class was on display at Wankhede Stadium as he took the North Zone attack for 151 in East Zone's total of 273 for 8 to set up a 52-run win

New Zealand batted Pakistan out of the third and final Test in Sharjah, looting 388 runs on the third day for a lead of 286

On the shores of a different ocean, home thoughts from abroad

Pakistan lost three wickets for five runs after lunch but recovered to bat out a draw to retain their 1-0 lead over New Zealand going into the final Test in Sharjah

Pakistan were nine down and 91 runs behind but Sarfraz Ahmed made his third Test century in the company of last man Rahat Ali to nearly wipe out the deficit. Ross Taylor cut his way to an unbeaten 77 to give his side an overall lead of 177

New Zealand endured a fruitless morning session, tied Pakistan down after lunch for Younis Khan's bonus wicket, and struck thrice with the second new ball after tea

Pakistan struck thrice in the morning but New Zealand's lower order resisted in the afternoon to push the score past 400

For the second Test running, young Tom Latham provided the long, patient batting effort New Zealand wanted from the top order

Returning from injury, with his favoured spot at the top of the order under threat, Rohit Sharma emphatically ended the opening debate

Five questions for India before the ODI series against Sri Lanka

KL Rahul, Robin Uthappa and Pankaj Singh pushed their claims for an India spot with national selectors Saba Karim and Vikram Rathour watching on the second day of the Duleep Trophy final in Delhi

New Zealand completed a 4-0 humbling of India in their previous ODI in January but will be confronted with a bigger challenge against the South Africans' pace battery on early-season pitches

West Indies may have formally played the fourth ODI in Dharamsala but their fielding suggested their minds were already on the flight back home

Virat Kohli cracked his 20th ODI hundred and Suresh Raina and Ajinkya Rahane made fifties as India comfortably downed a seemingly eager-to-leave West Indies in Dharamsala

Plays of the day from the second ODI between Pakistan and Australia in Dubai

Australia wrapped up another away ODI series against Pakistan, rebounding strongly after Ahmed Shehzad and Sarfraz Ahmed's century opening partnership

Plays of the day from the only T20 international between Pakistan and Australia in Dubai

Glenn Maxwell spun out the first three Pakistan wickets on a slow turner as the hosts limped to 96 and lost the only T20 international to Australia by six wickets