Cricket News

Shane Watson has carried Australia in every match of this tournament and has now all but muscled them into the semi-finals with another outstanding all-round performance against South Africa

West Indies and New Zealand qualified for the semi-finals of the women's World Twenty20 with big wins over South Africa and Sri Lanka respectively

A collective bowling performance, and dominant batting by Shikhar Dhawan gave India A a smooth eight-wicket win over Bengal in Rajkot

Sri Lanka have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their nine-wicket win over West Indies in the Super Eights clash at Pallekele on Saturday

Former India players Ravi Shastri and Sanjay Manjrekar have questioned the hasty comeback of Yuvraj Singh after he recovered from cancer earlier this year

Tanmay Mishra's maiden first-class hundred helped Kenya towards a useful total on the opening day of their Intercontinental Cup match against Namibia

England's Twenty20 captain, Stuart Broad, envisaged his side playing the "perfect game" in this World Twenty20

The preview of the Australia v South Africa Super Eights match, in Colombo

A delightfully unorthodox Sri Lankan attack working at close to its best handcuffed a power-packed West Indies line-up, conceding just 129 runs even though they got just five wickets in the 20 overs

ESPNcricinfo previews the Group 2 Super Eights World T20 match between India and Pakistan

Brad Haddin's self-confidence will be back at the level required to perform for Australia in Test matches following his strong showing for New South Wales in their Sheffield Shield draw with Tasmania, Australia's captain Michael Clarke believes

England sustained their hopes of retaining the World Twenty20 title with a six-wicket win over New Zealand in Pallekele

After three successive Man-of-the-Match awards at the World Twenty20, Bailey has called Watson "almost the complete cricketer" and said there is no reason why he cannot continue his incredible run against South Africa

Jess Cameron starred with the bat in Australia's 25-run win against Pakistan in a rain-affected match Women's World T20 Group A match in Galle

Despite declarations from both teams to try and force a result, the first unofficial Test between New Zealand A and India A in Lincoln ended in a draw

MS Dhoni has blamed rain for making the India bowlers ineffective against Shane Watson and David Warner in his side's heavy defeat to Australia

West Indies' focus on unity is not difficult to understand, given the dressing room's recent history

Akila Dananjaya is doubtful for the World Twenty20 Super Eights match against West Indies on Saturday after suffering an injury to his face during Thursday's game against New Zealand in Pallekele

Instead of focusing on his own range of misjudgements - not bowling the spinners out and batting too far down the order himself - de Villiers chose to focus on the half-full side of losing

ESPNcricinfo previews the Super Eights game between England and New Zealand in Pallekele