Cricket News

A round-up of the Sunfoil Series matches that ended on January 11, 2015

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said that he will retire from ODI cricket after the 2015 World Cup, but will continue playing Test cricket

Kumar Sangakkara has reclaimed the top position in the ICC Test Players Rankings, following the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, which the hosts won by 193 runs

Pakistan Women secured an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three ODI series against Sri Lanka Women, defending a total of 138 runs for a 12-run victory in the second match in Sharjah

West Indies pulled off the highest successful run-chase in the shortest format, propelled by Chris Gayle's 90 off 41 balls

Sydney Sixers made light work of a 148-run chase against Brisbane Heat in Woollongabba, as their top and middle-order batsmen all chipped in with handy knocks to complete a six-wicket win

Kevin Pietersen has received some sympathy from a former team-mate over the way his international career ended

Bangladesh cricketer Rubel Hossain has been granted bail by a Dhaka court, three days after he was sent to jail in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act

David Warner is set to play his first World Cup and believes he can turnaround his middling ODI form during Australia's campaign

Corey Anderson may have risen to global attention for his world-record fastest century last January, but he had to rein in those natural instincts as he composed a match-winning 81 from 96 balls against Sri Lanka, Anderson said

A stranglehold by the Perth Scorchers bowlers dried up the boundaries for Hobart Hurricanes as they aimed for the final push in their chase but fell comfortably short of a middling target at Bellerive Oval

The national selector effectively concluded that their leading Test spinner Lyon was not up to the task of bowling with only four run-saving men shielding the boundaries

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Australia had to settle for a draw in the Sydney Test, but the sight of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood hooping the reverse-swinging Kookaburra around late on day five was an encouraging one for the future

Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine have refused the annual retainer contracts offered to them by the WICB, while it would appear Kieron Pollard wasn't offered one

Test opener Chris Rogers will captain the Prime Minister's XI against England in Canberra this Wednesday after Michael Hussey was withdrawn from the match due to a calf injury

Michael Clarke has been given until Australia's second World Cup match against Bangladesh on February 21 to prove his fitness as he recovers from hamstring surgery

West Indies have picked Sunil Narine among their 15 members headed for the World Cup. As reports suggested, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard are not among the squad

Sri Lanka discovered that at Hagley Oval what goes for New Zealand's Test team goes for their ODI outfit as well: the hosts' seamers are deadly dangerous, their top order is daunting and their lower-middle order can turn matches on their own too

Ed Joyce's 51 and a steady 52-run partnership between Andy Balbirnie and Alex Cusack helped Ireland survive a couple of batting wobbles to secure a three-wicket win against Afghanistan in their opening game of the Dubai triangular series