Hosts New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first in the sixth match of the ICC cricket World Cup 2015 at University Oval in Dunedin. Losing the toss and batting first, Scotland were packed for 142 runs. The Kiwis were made to pay to chase down the score. NZ now have four points in the Pool A.

A little over a year ago Mahmudullah Riyad's position in the team was heavily questioned. The player was barely scoring runs and talks about favouritism within the team flooded the media.

Down the track and boom! Tamim Iqbal's cross-batted smack against Zaheer Khan in 2007 still remains, arguably so, the most memorable cricket shot played by a Bangladeshi batsman in the World Cup.

The first day of the fourth round of the National Cricket League witnessed four centurions; this despite the fact that Dhaka's strong batting line-up is yet to open their account.

Ireland caused the first upset of the World Cup when an audacious 92 by Paul Stirling paved the way for a four-wicket win over the West Indies at Nelson's Saxton Oval on Monday.

For little more than an hour at the Saxton Oval yesterday Ireland's Paul Stirling had transformed him into a baseball player.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum on Monday predicted highly-rated Kane Williamson could become the country's greatest batsman.

Pakistan's World Cup winning captain Imran Khan took to Twitter to console the crestfallen Pakistanis after Sunday's defeat to India in Adelaide.

A dejected West Indies looked completely out-of-sorts when they came to bat.

If Pakistan were looking for answers for its wretched losing streak against arch-rivals India in the World Cup, they need to cut to the chase and begin with the captain's luck with the toss.

Even as Ireland were hunting down West Indies in Nelson, in a quiet corner of quiet Manuka Oval in quiet Canberra, Bangladesh were going through a three-hour intense training session. Bangladesh lost both their World Cup warm-up games, one of them to Ireland, and their first opponents in the tournament are Afghanistan, who beat them in the Asia Cup last March in the only previous ODI between the two sides.

Sammy was heard using inappropriate words after playing a shot, while Mooney swore several times when a fielder dropped a catch

West Indies hard-hitting allrounder Darren Sammy notched up his highest One-Day-International score during today’s Pool B’s World Cup match at Nelson.

The Caribbeans made 304 riding on the ton of Simmons and crucial knock of Sammy

Jubilant fans spilled out onto India's streets and let off firecrackers after the national team defeated bitter rivals Pakistan in their opening World Cup match in Adelaide on Sunday.

Bangladesh coach Chanidka Hathurusingha expects his ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan to take a lead role in the World Cup.

Woke up early in the morning yesterday to catch the Adelaide flight from Melbourne and almost immediately felt the fever of the India-Pakistan match.

So now we know that a middle-aged man in Karachi, with hair greying by the sides and tummy protruding from under the t-shirt, will have to wait for at least another four years

You can describe him as the 'typical- Delhi' boy, you may as well criticise him for being overtly aggressive in press conferences,

Traditional giant-killers Ireland and under-pressure West Indies possess all the ingredients for a high-scoring clash in their opening World Cup match in Nelson on Monday.