A blazing 76 by Salman Butt led Pakistan to a comprehensive seven-wicket win in a rain-curtailed match at the Iqbal Stadium

A fine hundred from Mohammad Yousuf and a plucky 85 from Shoaib Malik set up Pakistan's mammoth 322 before the bowlers sealed a thumping 152-run win in the first ODI in Lahore

Michael Clarke gets hitched, Brian Jerling gets hurt, Dwayne Leverock gets an award, and Nawaz Sharif gets reunited with cricket

A comprehensive all-round rout of Bangladesh in the third and final one-dayer in Mirpur not only sealed a 3-0 series win for South Africa but also propelled them to the top of the ICC one-day rankings

Subcontinental conditions and the presence of three left-arm spinners did nothing to scare off the South Africans as their openers, Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs, added a century opening stand to help South Africa go 1-0 up in the three-match series

A new-look Pakistan, without a handful of their senior players, beat Zimbabwe comprehensively by seven wickets in the final one-dayer in Sheikhupura to complete a 5-0 sweep of the Mobilink Cup

Lee does Bollywood, Curtly v Deano relived, Gough dances again, and King Arthur keeps wicket

The second one-dayer in Napier turned out to be hopelessly one-sided as New Zealand's batsmen made best use of a placid surface to help register a 102-run win to take the series 2-0

A patient 88 by opener Jamie How helped New Zealand ease to a comfortable six-wicket win against Bangladesh at Eden Park to take a 1-0 lead in the series

Test cricket in Sri Lanka may not always whet the appetite. However, the scenes are quite different when England are in town

West Indies, led by their seamers, overpowered the home side for a second successive game to record a six-wicket win in Harare

New Zealand, led by scintillating half-centuries by Brendon McCullum and Jamie How dismantled South Africa with clinical efficiency

Roving reporter at the Ranji Trophy Super League encounter between Tamil Naud and Mumbai in Chennai

Tamil Nadu's relatively inexperienced line-up was out-thought by Mumbai's bowlers and out-batted by their batsmen

Mumbai, led by Ramesh Powar's second five-wicket haul in as many matches, sealed their first win of the Ranji Trophy this season by beating Tamil Nadu by eight wickets at the Gurunanak College Ground in Chennai

A counter-attacking 105 by Abhishek Nayar, a knock characteristic of holders Mumbai, saw the visitors finish their first innings with a lead of 111

Though brought on only in the 29th over of the innings, Tamil Nadu had run-ins with Powar long before he began to measure his run-up

A committed effort in the field, led by Ramesh Powar, helped Mumbai bundle out Tamil Nadu for 206 on the opening day

Lakshmipathy Balaji, the Indian fast bowler currently on a cometrack trail from injury, will not be rushed back into competitive cricket, Tamil Nadu coach WV Raman has said

Tamil Nadu were a strong force in the domestic scene at the start of the millenium but the core members of that team are missing