Cricket News

Half-centuries by Shahid Yousuf, Umar Akmal and Umar Siddiq helped Punjab Badshahs hand Sindh Knights their fourth straight loss

Easily cowed during the Tests, West Indies deployed arguably a stronger line-up for the first T20 and, despite an unconvincing finish, proved too good for an experimental South Africa

Preston Mommsen will lead Scotland into their third World Cup campaign after Cricket Scotland named their squad of 15 to travel to Australia and New Zealand.

A fifty from opener Marina Iqbal and an unbeaten 37 from Nida Dar steered Pakistan Women to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka Women in the opening match of the three ODI-series in Sharjah

A poor batting performance from Sydney Thunder saw them consigned to a heavy five-wicket defeat at the hands of the Hobart Hurricanes in the first BBL match at Spotless Stadium

Mitchell Santner's quickfire half-century pipped Todd Astle's to secure Northern Districts' victory over Canterbury by four wickets

Former New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond will quit as the national team's bowling coach at the end of the 2015 World Cup

New Zealand will be without Ross Taylor and Tim Southee, who has a "slight hammy niggle", for the first ODI against Sri Lanka

On the fourth afternoon at the SCG, Australia rollicked along at better than a run a ball in their second innings, hoping to beat India and the weather.

Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard are not part of 15-man West Indies World Cup squad according to Dinanath Ramnarine, though the WICB has not yet announced officially the World Cup squad

A century from Federal United's captain Umar Amin went in vain, as the team succumbed to a 34-run defeat against Baluchistan Warriors in Karachi

Sohag Gazi is set to test his reworked bowing action in Chennai on January 24

Rajasthan captain Pankaj Singh has hailed his team's first ever victory against Punjab in the Ranji Trophy as a "big achievement", following their eight-wicket win in Jaipur

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group B matches played on January 8, 2015

West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy believes that a change of format could invigorate the team after their defeat in the Test series

A strong batting display from Afghanistan's top order, powered by half-centuries from Javed Ahmadi and Nasir Jamal, helped the team to an eight-wicket victory against Scotland in Dubai

Charl Langeveldt's involvement with the national team comes with the World Cup little more than a month away and South Africa still searching for a death bowler

Mitchell Starc, the Australia fast bowler, has been reprimanded after admitting to a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during the second day's play in the fourth Test against India at the SCG

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group A matches played on January 8, 2015

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group C matches on January 8, 2015