New Zealand v Australia, World Cup, Auckland

Bounty for left-arm pacers

Feb 28, 2015: Left-arm seamers took 12 wickets in the thriller between New Zealand and Australia, the most ever in an ODI

New Zealand v Australia, World Cup 2015, Group A, Auckland

Boult strikes once, twice...five times

Feb 28, 2015: A week after Tim Southee destroyed England with 7 for 33 in Wellington it was the turn of his new-ball partner Trent Boult to produce an extraordinary performance

England v Sri Lanka, World Cup 2015, Group A, Wellington

England seek surge against rallying Sri Lanka

Feb 28, 2015: After shaky starts in the tournament, both England and Sri Lanka will be looking for resurgence when they meet in Wellington on Sunday

New Zealand v Australia, World Cup 2015, Group A, Auckland

Ice-cool Williamson wins New Zealand a thriller

Feb 28, 2015: This was the match the 2015 World Cup was crying out for, a competitive contest between two major sides, and the co-hosts played out a thriller in front of a packed and partisan Auckland crowd

World Cup 2015

A Christchurch miracle and an Afghan cartwheel

Feb 28, 2015: ESPNcricinfo's correspondents travelling around Australia and New Zealand pick their best moments from the second week of the World Cup

England v Sri Lanka, Group A, Wellington

Jayawardene's dominance , Jordan's magic hold

Feb 28, 2015: England have struggled against Sri Lanka in the recent past, but have had some good individual performances.

What makes AB tick

Feb 27, 2015: His still head and ability to maintain a low centre of gravity help him to pull off the shots he does

World Cup 2015

5 Things: De Villiers' record day, West Indies' plight ahead

Feb 27, 2015: Five things we learned from Friday's matches at the Cricket World Cup.

South Africa v West Indies, World Cup 2015, Group B, Sydney

Tahir thriving on limited-overs challenge

Feb 27, 2015: Over the last 12 months, Imran Tahir has come back to carve a niche as South Africa's premier limited-overs spinner. And his gleeful celebrations are becoming a more common sight

World Cup 2015

Five World Cup bowling nightmares

Feb 27, 2015: West Indies' young captain Jason Holder can console himself as he reflects on the 34 runs he conceded in an over against South Africa that he is not the only World Cup bowler to take a trouncing

India v UAE, Group B, Perth

Patil faces old friends in Perth

Feb 27, 2015: They could have ended up as team-mates but Swapnil Patil took a different route to international cricket than his Indian friends and they are set to meet on opposite sides

Ranji Trophy 2014-15, semi-finals

Mithun strikes leave Mumbai in trouble

Feb 27, 2015: Abhimanyu Mithun and Vinay Kumar's burst with the second new ball after fifties from Aditya Tare and Shreyas Iyer left Karnataka on the brink of their second successive Ranji Trophy final

SA v WI, Group B, Sydney

West Indies wake up to the wrong side of de Villiers

Feb 27, 2015: AB de Villiers is one of the politest cricketers anyone could wish to meet, but as he set more one-day batting records, this time against West Indies, he made the rudest of interventions

SA v WI, Group B, Sydney

Beleaguered Holder scorched in de Villiers blaze

Feb 27, 2015: By elevating Jason Holder to the captaincy of a troubled team so early in his career, West Indies have risked stalling the development of an immensly promising cricketer

Maharashtra v Tamil Nadu, Ranji Trophy semi-finals, Kolkata, 3rd day

Maharashtra steady after Tamil Nadu make 549

Feb 27, 2015: Maharashtra replied in solid fashion after Tamil Nadu amassed 549 in their first innings on the third day at Eden Gardens

India news

Srinivasan won't contest BCCI election

Feb 27, 2015: The BCCI's sidelined president N Srinivasan will not be able to contest the election to any position in the board's annual general meeting, scheduled to take place in Chennai on March 2

SA v WI, Group B, Sydney

Taylor leaps, Simmons goes to sleep

Feb 27, 2015: Plays of the day from the match between South Africa and West Indies in Sydney

India v UAE, Group B, Perth

UAE determined to keep smiling

Feb 27, 2015: UAE are one happy side having the time of their lives, a bunch of amateurs playing a World Cup. A lot is spoken about team bonding and enjoying training but UAE were infectiously bubbly on Friday morning at the WACA.

South Africa v West Indies, World Cup, Group B, Sydney, February 27

De Villiers 162 dismantles West Indies

Feb 27, 2015:

World Cup 2015: West Indies

Charles replaces injured Bravo for West Indies

Feb 27, 2015: West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has been ruled out of the 2015 World Cup due to a low-grade tear to his left hamstring