Hundreds of jubilant Afghan cricket fans flooded onto the streets of major cities Thursday, dancing, waving flags and firing AK-47s in celebration at their team's historic World Cup win over Scotland.

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400th match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and what does Sangakkara do? Hammer his way to magnificent ton. True,

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Towheed Hussain: The Lions are roaring and the Tigers can only purr about it.

Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan hammered a ton against Bangladesh in the 18th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 at Melbourne today.

Bangladesh had a bad day during fielding against Sri Lanka during the 18th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 at Melbourne today.

A thriller at Dunedin saw Afghanistan win in the last over by one wicket against Scotland in the 17th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Sri Lanka made 330 on centuries from Tilakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara and an abysmal field performance by Bangladesh in the World Cup match at Melbourne today. However, Sri Lanka having lost only a single wicket to post the total would have liked an advantage of about 40 more runs on the scoreboard.

It's a huge ground this; the MCG. Three times the capacity of the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at Mirpur

Unlike their opponents, Sri Lanka have had a good experience in Australian conditions. Having played against Bangladesh a number of times in the last one year, they also know their opponents quite well.

That today's game has the potential to decide Bangladesh's fate in the World Cup is a fact that is quite well known.

After 15 matches of the World Cup so far, some of which have been entirely uncompetitive, we got arguably the most exciting and certainly the closest contest yesterday.

The second day of the fourth round of the National Cricket League witnessed four centuries as batsmen kept piling on the runs.

By day, he works in shipping in Dubai's flourishing cargo industry. At nights and weekends in the Gulf, and now at the famed Gabba in Brisbane, he's racking up the boundaries in record style.

Scotland and Afghanistan are each targeting a first-ever World Cup victory when they meet in Dunedin on Thursday.

South Africa batsman Hashim Amla insisted his team won't panic despite their 130-run World Cup loss to defending champions India, while Friday's clash against a rejuvenated West Indies can't come round soon enough.

Afghanistan will go into their World Cup clash against Scotland brimming with confidence after pushing former champions Sri Lanka in their previous match, batsman Javed Ahmadi said Wednesday.

Legendary New Zealand paceman Richard Hadlee believes Australia have a slight advantage heading into Saturday's World Cup showdown between the co-hosts because of their pack of power-hitters.

In a Q and A with Martin Devlin of Radio Sport, McCullum put the strong win against England down to his side's strong bowling performance.