England news

Yorkshire debts will toughen Graves' resolve to shake up game

Mar 4, 2015: Yorkshire's worsening financial position, and the dilapidated state of Headingley, will only serve to toughen the resolve of the incoming ECB chairman, Colin Graves, to consider any option to sort out the finances of the professional game

The World Cup of national anthems

Mar 4, 2015: Where the champion will be a minnow

Australia v Afghanistan, Group A, Perth

Warner 178 loads it up, Maxwell 88 blows it up

Mar 4, 2015: David Warner cruised to 178, Steven Smith collected 95 and Glenn Maxwell clobbered 88 to propel Australia to a World Cup record 417 for 8 in Perth, paving the way for a 275-run win, the second largest in ODI history

World Cup 2015

Sinclair's battle after cricket

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World Cup 2015: England

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Pakistan v UAE, Group B, Napier

Pakistan cruise past UAE

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Peformance analysis

Wahab Riaz enters the top allrounders' list, at No. 4

Mar 4, 2015: An analysis of performances in the World Cup after the first 23 matches of the World Cup

Peformance analysis

AB displaces Gayle at the top

Mar 4, 2015: An analysis of performances in the World Cup after the first 20 matches of the World Cup

Bangladesh v Scotland, World Cup 2015, Group A, Nelson

Mommsen targets 'weaknesses' in death bowling

Mar 4, 2015: Preston Mommsen has said he expects Bangladesh to field a spin-heavy attack before adding that Scotland had worked hard to improve that area of their game over the past few months

Bangladesh v Scotland, Group A, Nelson

Sounds of silence for edgy Bangladesh

Mar 4, 2015: Bangladesh are used to the roar of an expectant crowd - even in Canberra and Melbourne they had a taste of that - but Nelson will provide a very different environment for a crucial match

Pakistan v UAE, World Cup 2015, Group B, Napier

Pakistan batsmen craft huge win

Mar 4, 2015: Hopes that this Pakistan team is capable of as dramatic and irrepressible a surge as that which won the 1992 World Cup will be momentarily boosted by the 129-run victory over UAE, but a truer test awaits them at Eden Park on Saturday

Bangladesh v Scotland, Group A, Nelson

Bangladesh seek quarter-final boost

Mar 4, 2015: If Bangladesh are to make the World Cup quarter-finals, they have to win at least two of their next three matches, but the first obstacle in their way is a Scotland side desperate to register their first victory of the tournament

Of Citizen Kane and brave captains

Mar 4, 2015: The Amiss awards for the first third of the World Cup - named for a batsman who knew a thing or two about courage and common sense

'Australia should win, but they have home pressure to deal with'

Mar 4, 2015: Former Australia fast bowler Nathan Bracken backs his side to win this World Cup, and looks back at 2007, and at the premature end to his international career

World Cup 2015

Tendulkar calls for 25-team World Cup

Mar 4, 2015: Sachin Tendulkar has condemned the ICC's decision to reduce the number of teams in the 2019 World Cup as "a backward step" in the global expansion of cricket

An all-inclusive blueprint for the 2019 World Cup

Mar 4, 2015: A 40-over tournament with 18 teams, played over ten weeks, with a best-of-three final will help identify a true champion team with luck playing little part

Otago v Wellington, Plunket Shield 2014-15

Otago take five points from draw

Mar 3, 2015: Michael Papps registered his 26th first-class century on the last day of Wellington's draw in their Plunket Shield game against Otago

World Cup 2015: Zimbabwe

Injured Chigumbura to miss Ireland game

Mar 3, 2015: Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura has been ruled out of his team's next group B game, against Ireland on March 7, because of a grade three tear to the quadriceps muscle in his left leg

West Indies news

Lara 'ready' for WICB involvement

Mar 3, 2015: Former West Indies captain Brian Lara is open to standing for the post of WICB president in future

World Cup 2015: England

Broad admits to nightmares over Aaron blow

Mar 3, 2015: Stuart Broad has admitted that he has received psychological help for nightmares he has suffered since taking a blow in the face from India's fast bowler Varun Aaron at Old Trafford last summer