Ed Joyce

World Cup winning-Australia captain Meg Lanning has used the extra time in hand amid the COVID-19 pandemic to provide a virtual batting class to Ireland women's cricket team.

Ireland qualified for their third successive ICC World Cup after their World Cricket League Championship match against the Netherlands ended in a tie.

There are other players like UAE's Shaiman Anwar who scored over 300 runs in the tournament, including a century against Ireland and two half-centuries against Pakistan and Zimbabwe.

Ed Joyce struck an impressive hundred as Ireland posted their highest ODI total of 331 for eight against Zimbabwe in their pool B match of the ICC World Cup.

In the 44-year history of the World Cup, Sachin Tendulkar and Javed Miandad hold the record for most number of appearances for their team. However there are also a few players that have represented two different teams at the tournament. Here's a look at the players who have this unique record.

Indian Test discard Murali Kartik was included in the 15-man Middlesex squad to play warm-up matches for the Stanford Super Series in Antigua, West Indies.

England struggled to beat Middlesex by 12 runs in their opening warm-up match ahead of the $20 million Stanford 20/20 showpiece next weekend.

Yusuf Pathan and S Trivedi wrecked the England Lions line-up to guide West Zone to an emphatic nine-wicket victory on Thursday.

Ireland maintained their bid for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals by holding their nerve to beat Zimbabwe by five runs in a Pool B clash in Hobart.

A look at the underdogs of the 2015 ICC World Cup, who have shone bright and broken stereotypes of the game.

Captain William Porterfield made a composed century before Pakistan seamers staged a fightback to bowl out Ireland for 237 in a must-win World Cup match.

The former England assistant coach Matthew Maynard is actually going to be working with the independent World Cricket Academy, which sets up base every season at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai.

An imperious century by skipper Michael Yardy helped England Lions dominate the opening day's play against West Zone in their Duleep Trophy group match at the Motibaug ground on Monday.

When Ireland rocked the cricket world in 2007 World Cup by upsetting Pakistan and Bangladesh and qualifying for the Super Eights, most of their players had to extend their leaves from their jobs back home.

While Team India counted its positives in the one-off Test match against Bangladesh at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Sunday, MV Narasimha Rao, a former India player and Hyderabad captain, was recounting his loss.

On the cusp of creating ICC World Cup history, a supremely confident India will aim to crush a gutsy Ireland in their penultimate group match of the event.

Even as the use of fancy technology used to make crucial cricketing decisions has been receiving both, appreciation and criticism, let's take look at some of the close calls this World Cup.

Both, the umpires and the technology used at the ICC World Cup 2015 have been under fire for taking some wrong decisions.

Sarfraz Ahmed hit his maiden ODI ton as Pakistan advanced to the World Cup quarterfinals, knocking Ireland out with a seven-wicket win in final Pool B tie.

It was ironic that when Hyderabad cricket was going through one of its dark phases, the very best of the lot gathered to celebrate only their second Ranji Trophy title win way back in 1987-88. But as the protagonist put it, it is during dark times that one needs to "put shoulder to the wheel," and that statement lucidly illustrates the player, man and leader MV Narasimha Rao is.

It was ironic that when Hyderabad cricket is going through one of its dark phases, the very best of the lot gathered to celebrate only their second Ranji Trophy title won way back in 1987-88.

Mohammed Shami (41/3) and Ravichandran Ashwin (38/2) led the fightback and helped India bowl out Ireland for 259 in 49 overs in World Cup Pool B match.

When Ireland became the 11th Test nation to make their debut on, coincidentally, the 11th of May, they found the most unlikely of centurions in Kevin O’Brien, a man who raised hopes of one of the most remarkable victories on debut. The 34-year-old from Dublin has become the ‘Maestro of Malahide’ overnight with his remarkable 118 against Pakistan.

India captain MS Dhoni found a place in both ICC Test team of the year as well as the ODI side of the year but Virat Kohli didn't figure in the ICC ODI team.

Indian captain MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli are in the running for the 'ODI Cricketer of the Year' trophy in the short-list announced for the ICC Annual Awards.

Under MS Dhoni's inch-perfect moves, the Men in Blue look all poised to make a serious title bid.

Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma stitched a record 174-run opening stand to help India register an emphatic 8-wicket victory over Ireland in Hamilton.

India captain MS Dhoni found a place in both ICC Test team of the year as well as the ODI side of the year but Virat Kohli didn't figure in the ICC ODI team.