Describing Michael Hussey as a match winner, Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke on Wednesday said the left-handed batsman has a huge to role play in their World Cup title defence.

India, says Anil Kumble, urgently need to inject life into their World Cup campaign; their approach so far, has been far too desultory.

The controversial Decision Referral System was in the focus again when TV umpire Bruce Oxenford upheld Billy Doctrove's leg-before-wicket decision against Steve Tikolo during the Kenya-Canada tie in New Delhi, although replays showed the batsman got an edge onto his pads.

A sports kit containing six bats of Ireland cricket team member was found stolen after their World Cup Group B match against India in Bangalore, police said on Monday.

England batsman Eoin Morgan was approved as a replacement for Kevin Pietersen at the World Cup by the International Cricket Council on Monday.

India might have been made to toil hard by Ireland but coach Gary Kirsten is happy that his side has not got any "easy matches" so far in the World Cup as this has helped Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men get a hang of different situations.

Several hundred people gathered in Times Square to protest against the planned congressional hearings on the "radicalisation" of American Muslims, which have been convened by Republican Congressman Peter King.

After extending their unbeaten run in the World Cup with a win over Ireland, India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday said his side is improving with every single match and also praised the Irish players for their fighting spirit and outstanding fielding.

Yuvraj Singh's superb all-round performance helped India outclass Ireland by five wickets in their third World Cup encounter at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bangalore, on Sunday.

Former India captain Anil Kumble says nothing much can happen if India also does not raise the bar, substantially, in the fielding department.

Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande discuss the prospect of Ireland hammering India at today's match!

Title contenders India will have to be on their guard against giant-killers Ireland, on a high after shocking England, when the two sides face off in an interesting group B match of the World Cup in Bangalore on Sunday.

It's a Super Saturday! Australia take on Sri Lanka in a crucial World Cup encounter at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo.

After coming up with the most successful run chase in World Cup history against England on Wednesday, Ireland have lived up to their reputation as giant-killers. Can they pull off a surprise against tournament favourites India?

Videos from around the World Cup.

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan says lack of options in bowling make India a vulnerable side and it could hurt the team's prospects in the ongoing World Cup.

Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist wants the ICC to show stronger leadership in dealing with match-fixing. He feels cricket will be finished if the menace 'spirals out of control'.

Ireland's Kevin O'Brien, who plays his cricket for the Railway Union Club, on Wednesday, stood head and shoulders above some of the sport's greatest names after guiding his country to one of the biggest World Cup shocks with victory over the old enemy England.

Statistical highlights of the World Cup match between England and Ireland in Bangalore.

Kevin O'Brien smashed the fastest ever World Cup century to propel Ireland to a stunning three-wicket win over England in a Group B match on Wednesday.

Kevin O'Brien smashed the fastest cricket World Cup century off 50 balls as Ireland scored an upset three-wicket victory over England in Group B on Wednesday.

Videos from around the World Cup.

England return on Wednesday to the scene of their thrilling tied match against India at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium against an Ireland team who they would take lightly at their peril in World Cup Group B.

A brilliant diving catch by Tamim Iqbal and a four-wicket blast by paceman Shafiul Islam helped Bangladesh to a pulsating 27-run win over Ireland in their World Cup Group B match in Dhaka on Friday.

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Dismissing Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan's suggestion that Ireland will struggle on the spin-friendly conditions in Dhaka, Irish skipper William Porterfield insisted that his team is well prepared to handle any situation when they take on the hosts in their Group B World Cup match on Friday.

Ed Joyce, the cricketer who started playing for one country, swapped for another and then switched back again, knows he is in the firing line when Ireland take on England in the World Cup.

This is not a message to the external affairs minister from his boss, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This is what Dr Yum Yum Singh wrote on his Twitter on Sunday while commenting on Krishna's faux pax at the United Nations Security Council on Friday.

England batsman Eoin Morgan has been ruled out of the cricket World Cup because he requires surgery on a broken finger, coach Andy Flower said on Tuesday. He will be replaced by Ravi Bopara in the squad for the February 19-April 2 tournament in India.

As many European countries struggle with high unemployment, sluggish economic growth and sovereign debt crises, the issue of migrant workers and labour mobility is becoming more controversial than ever.

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G20 meetings last year degenerated into a sort of a grand junket for stressed out global leaders.

Britain's sporting weekend was decimated by heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures with Sunday's Premier League showdown between Chelsea and Manchester United among the hundreds of fixtures to be called off.

Eesan seems to have the usual collection of kuthu, romantic and energising songs, but there's nothing that scales the heights of musical brilliance.

The BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices were down 1% and 1.7% each. Market breadth was negative 2037 stocks which declined for 881 stocks which advanced.

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The market breadth was neutral.

Ireland contributes roughly a quarter of percent of global GDP and 2 per cent of eurozone. The exposure of global financial institutions to both Irish sovereign and bank debt is somewhat small and the Irish government seems to be all set to be bailed out by Europe's stability fund and the IMF. Market estimates put the bailout package at roughly 100 billion, a sum that is by no means hefty by the standards of rescue packages offered over the last couple of years.

Just when you thought that the world was slowly slipping away from the crippling recession that had it in its vice-like grip since 2008, here comes the Irish economic crisis.

According to PTI, the Sensex fell below the psychological 20,000 points level on Tuesday on frenzied profit -booking amid a weak trend in Asia, which also pushed the NSE's broad-based Nifty index below the magic 6,000-marker.