It seems hard to believe but Sri Lanka have never won a single Test match in India, which makes their chances of taking the series over the next month about as difficult as they could be. India are a formidable side anywhere but especially at home, so it'

Australia showed that they are still the world's best one-day side as they clinched the series win over India with victory in match six on Sunday. There is still one match to go though and the fact that it's a dead rubber surely plays into India's hands

India have one last chance to get to the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy on Wednesday when they play West Indies in Johannesburg. It's a day-night match so anything can happen but India will be chasing a big win that will give them a chance of goi

It's a pretty simple equation for India in the ICC Champions Trophy on Monday. Beat Australia and they have a good chance to make the last four; lose and they can forget about anything other than booking their flights home

Humbled by Australia and beaten by just about everyone else in one-day cricket over the past couple of years, England are 16/1 to win the ICC Champions Trophy. It's a big price but probably the right one for only West Indies look a worse outfit than them

Australia showed yet again that they are far and away the most consistent and best one-day side in the world as they eased to victory in the ICC Champions Trophy on Monday to win another global competition with victory over New Zealand

Six down, one to go for Australia if they are to inflict England's first ever whitewash in a seven-game series of one-day internationals. And if the first six matches have shown us anything, it's more evidence that England are a woeful one-day side but cr

The joy and delight at winning the Ashes will surely go on for a long time yet but those pragmatic souls - the bookies - have already priced up the 2011 series and they make the Australians odds-on to regain the Urn by winning on home soil

England took a couple of crucial wickets late on day four of the third Test at Edgbaston on Sunday to set up a tense final day. The draw remains the favourite, but a couple of early wickets could change all that

A brilliant partnership between Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin has given Australia a glimmer of hope going into day five of the second Test at Lord's. With 209 still required and only five wickets remaining, England remain favourites but they will have a

The batting honours may just about be done and dusted but the same cannot be said for the bowlers, with long-time leaders James Anderson and Ben Hilfenhaus suddenly under pressure from some of their team-mates

The rain came to England's rescue late on day four of the first Ashes Test but they face a tense final day with eight wickets to protect if they are no avoid a defeat that would put them 1-0 down in the series

As if we didn't already know it, Ricky Ponting showed just why he was favourite to be his side's top runscorer in the Ashes after his fabulous 150 in Cardiff and he has been cut to just 6/4 to come out on top

With one Test to go, it is going to take something pretty special if Andrew Strauss and Michael Clarke are not to finish up on top of their respective batting lists

When you think of what happened to the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore just a few months ago, the fact that Sri Lanka and Pakistan have made it through to the final of the World Twenty20 really does make for a fairytale final on Sunday

Australia may be gone but the other top teams all remain and South Africa are the narrow favourites going into the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20

When trying to work out who will be top batsman in the World Twenty20, as with the one-day World Cups, there is a formula that you simply must adhere to. It's as simple as 1, 2, 3

The second edition of the ICC World Twenty20 begins on Friday and though one thing seems certain - that England won't win it - the trophy, held by India, is truly up for grabs with any number of sides having a legitimate claim to be favourites

England made light work of West Indies in the second one-day international to move ahead in the rain-affected series. And unless something drastic happens in the next two days, or unless the weather intervenes again, there seems little to stop them from w

As far as I can see, the only good thing about the forthcoming one-day series between England and West Indies is that there are only three matches. However, England will want to maintain the momentum from their Test series win and West Indies will be out