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Vinay Kumar gave India a strong start with the ball but rain was threatening to play a major role in the first Commonwealth Bank Series match at the MCG

Rob Nicol claimed four wickets to help a new-look New Zealand to a 90-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first one-day international of three in Dunedin.

Pakistan began the third Test in Dubai imagining their first whitewash in a Test series against England. They reached lunch with such ambitions no longer uttered. By drinks on the first morning, England had five Pakistan wickets, by lunch they had seven.

Matthew Wade’s punchy 72 pushed Australia to 4 for 171, a steep target for India on a tacky pitch in the first international match at Stadium Australia in Sydney, which hosted events during the Olympics in 2000

A round-up of the first day of the third round of Pentangular Cup matches

England should not change their team despite being “embarrassed” by Pakistan in the first two tests, according to former captain Michael Vaughan.

For all the highs the New Zealand cricket team has experienced during the past few months, there's one black mark on the score sheet that still makes for ugly reading.It's not the nine-wicket hammering they copped in the first test…

Suryakumar Yadav rescued West Zone from a top-order collapse with brisk century, but East Zone still held the edge on the first day of the Duleep Trophy

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness was revealed this week as an unlikely cricket nut – and a fan of the England team Martin McGuinness isn't the first person you associate with cricket. But one night in the late 60s, a teenage McGuinness was up late watching television – and on came a cricket highlights package. “I thought it was really interesting,” he recalls, though he can't remember who was …

England's Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann were the scourge of Pakistan as they picked up six wickets to reduce the hosts to 256 for seven on the first day of the second test on Wednesday.