Cricket Desk: Rain played spoilsport in the match between Australia and West Indies, but the Kangaroos maintained a good run rate to win the match by 17 runs (D/L method). West Indies 191/8 in 20 overs (Gayle 54, Samuels 50, Dwayne Bravo 27; Watson 2/29, Starc 3/35). Australia 100/1 in 9.1 overs (Warner 28, Watson 41*, Mike Hussey 28*). MoM: Shane Watson.

Cricket Desk: In the rain-interrupted T20 tie, South Africa thrashed Sri Lanka by 32 runs. The match was reduced to seven overs a side following rain. South Africa scored 78/4 in 7 overs. AB de Villiers made 30. Sri Lanka could manage 46/5 in 7 overs. Dale Steyn took two wickets. Villiers was declared 'Man of the Match'.

Cricket Desk: Defending champions showed India how to play against a minnows like Afghanistan, as they crushed the latter by 116 runs in the Group A of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Luke Wright was unlucky to miss out on a well-deserving hundred, as he remained unbeaten on 99.

Cricket Desk: Brendon McCullum became the first batsman in T20 history to score two international hundreds, as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 59 runs in the T20 World Cup match. McCullum scored 123 off 58 balls - the highest individual score in Twenty20 internationals.

Cricket Desk: Zimbabwe turned out to be a no match to mighty South Africa, which registered a crushing 10-wicket victory over them in ICC T20 World Cup match. Scores: Zimbabwe 93/8 in 20 overs (Craig Ervine 37; Kallis 4/15, Morne Morkel 2/16). South Africa 94/0 in 12.4 overs (Richard Levi 50*, Hashim Amla 32*). Man of the Match: Jacques Kallis.

Cricket Desk: India survived a scare to beat Afghanistan by 23 runs in their first match in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Scores: India 159/5 in 20 overs (Kohli 50, Raina 38; Shapoor Zardan 2/33). Afghanistan 136 in 19.3 overs (Mangal 22, Sadiq 26, Nabi 31; Balaji 3/19, Yuvraj 3/24, Ashwin 2/20). Virat Kohli was declared 'Man of the Match'.

Cricket Desk: Australia started their ICC Twenty20 World Cup campaign in style by prevailing over Ireland in the opening match. The Kangaroos defeated Ireland by 7 wickets. Scores: Ireland 123/ in 20 overs (Kevin O'Brien 35, Niall O'Brien 20; Shane Watson 3/26, Mitchell Starc 2/20). Australia 125/3 in 15.1 overs (Shane Watson 51*, David Warner 26*, Cameron White 22*). Shane Watson was declared ‘Man of the Match’.

Breaking News! Ajantha Mendis made a strong comeback after nine months with a six-wicket haul, as Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe in the opening match of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup by 82 runs. The Lankans dominated Zimbabwe in each sphere tonight.

Breaking News! Pakistan finally broke the World Cup jinx against India albeit it was a warm up match. A lackluster India went down to Pakistan by 5 wickets in the last warm up game in the run-up to the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. At one stage, Pakistan were 84/5, but Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik added unbeaten 95 runs to their team through.

Cricket Desk: India posted 185/3 in 20 overs against Pakistan in the warm-up match in the run up to ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Virat Kohli remained unbeaten on 75 off 47 balls with 7 boundaries and 2 sixes. Rohit Sharma scored 56, while Sehwag made 26. Saeed Ajmal took two wickets.