Three major upsets that highlighted this World Cup.
Pakistan will join India, England and New Zealand in the semi-finals
Family, sportspeople and entertainers bid farewell to Australian cricketing legend Shane Warne at a private funeral held at his hometown in Melbourne on Sunday.
Regular knock out defeats at global events gives rise to serious questions
He was a central figure in India's epic turnaround during the 2020-21 tour of Australia but stand-in captain of that series Ajinkya Rahane says "someone else took the credit" for decisions he made to resurrect the team after the nightmarish 36 all out in the Adelaide Test.
It was a bitter pill for James Anderson and England's bowlers, who had battled hard to limit Australia to 267 and give their batsmen a chance to set the home side a chase.
Images from the T20 World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Ireland, in Hobart, on Sunday.
Melbourne Cricket Ground management says a person who attended India-Australia Women's T20 World Cup Final on March 8 diagnosed with COVID-19.
The new stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad, which will be completed in two years, will become the biggest cricket stadium in the world with seating capacity of 1.10 lakh.
Pakistan's stand-in captain Mohammad Hafeez hit a fighting fifty to set up a comprehensive six-wicket victory against Australia in the second one-day international on Sunday that levelled the five-match series.
Match referee Mike Procter reported the curator to the International Cricket Council for repairing the pitch before the start of final day's play.
Australia great Ricky Ponting says India are reaping the rewards of sticking with Virat Kohli, who bounced back in style to ignite hopes for their second World Cup title in the T20 format after 15 years.
Pakistan's former Test pacer and acclaimed coach Aaqib Javed wants PCB to pick brains of Indian curators, who have been regularly preparing rank turners in their own backyard.
The Test batting chart is headed by Australia's Marnus Labuschagne (915 points), followed by England captain Joe Root (900) while New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson (879) dislodged Steve Smith (877) from the No. 3 slot.
The BCCI boss also said that a separate IPL for women in two years' time is on the cards.
Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar reckons that ground conditions will dictate which spinners are to be played in the XI.
History is also a bit against India when it comes to results at the business end of the ICC events.
The four-Test Border Gavaskar Trophy that promises a lot of twists and turns, engrossing sub-plots and probably career-defining performances.
In fact, the first over that Kagiso Rabada bowled, it seemed that the ball was hitting the bat rather than bat hitting the ball.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against India.
The flip-flop has finally ended and Rahul Dravid would indeed open the innings in the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is like a subcontinent track. Batsmen struggled while playing on it this week in the Pura Cup clash between Victoria and New South Wales.
Pujara was the dominant figure with his second century of the series, a dogged but faultless 106 off 319 balls
The Australian wicket-keeper batswoman caught a ball, which was dropped from a drone, 80 metres above the MCG surface to break the previous record of 62 meters set by an Englishman Kristan Baumgartner in 2016.
Wives and partners of team members cheering on their men.
'...the one that turned the match firmly in India's favour was the Johnny Mullagh medal-winning contribution from Rahane. The captain's century came at a time when India could easily have faded to a two-nil deficit, and it was this performance that gave his team the conviction that victory was attainable.'
Shane Warne's three children paid a heart-wrenching tribute to the spin king
IMAGES from the T20 World Cup match played between India and Zimbabwe in Melbourne on Sunday.
Australia were dismissed for 98 in their first innings just before tea on the opening day of the fourth Ashes test against England at the MCG on Sunday.
Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli struck rousing centuries to drive India to 462-8 at stumps on Day 3, trailing Australia's mammoth first innings total of 530 by 68 runs with two wickets in hand, in the third Test.
'Kohli is the most complete Indian batsman of my time. Only the greatest of champions has the courage and the intelligence to transport their imagination beyond the mortal plane. Kohli has that. Perhaps only Tiger Pataudi has come close to transcending a similar stratosphere'
A fit-again Jasprit Bumrah was recalled to the Indian team for the T20 World Cup along with fellow pace bowler Harshal Patel, but spin all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was ruled out of the tournament because of injury.
The Indian cricket team kicked off the New Year with an energy packed practice session for the third Test against Australia in Sydney.
Paine summarised that maybe Taylor knows the person who is in charge of dealing with ball-tracking, and was heard saying 'maybe, he knows the bloke'.
When will the actress and the cricketer make it official?
IMAGES from Day 3 of the Boxing Day Test played between Australia and New Zealand at the MCG on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended his best wishes to Indian and Australian teams ahead of the Women's Twenty20 World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly also extended good wishes to the women's team.
KL Rahul is looking forward to the upcoming Test series against England.
Meg Lanning's Australia, long the benchmark in women's cricket, will bid for a record-extending fifth T20 World Cup title after a rocky ride to their sixth final. Harmanpreet Kaur-captained India arrive at the MCG undefeated and without having bowled a ball in the rained-out semi-final against England.
Shaun Tait fiery spell ensured Australia complete the clean sweep, as the hosts beat Pakistan by two runs in the one-off Twenty20 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
