India beat Ireland by eight wickets to remain unbeaten, a dramatic change after it entered the World Cup without a win in a competitive match in the previous two months on Australian soil

Sri Lanka has beaten Scotland by 148 runs in a Cricket World Cup Pool A match Wednesday at Bellerive Oval.

An exhibition game at Madison Square Garden took an interesting turn when Roger Federer and Grigor Dimitrov decided to let a young boy play a point. Video / YouTube - Crystal Odom

A 95-year-old man has smashed the world 200m sprint record. No, not that one – the world’s over-95s 200m record. Video / YouTube: SilverGreySportsClub

The England cricket team are out of the Cricket World Cup 2015 after suffering a humiliating defeat to Bangladesh in Adelaide last night. It was the side's fourth defeat in five games with the only win coming against Scotland. It means England have failed to make the semifinals of the World Cup every tournament since 1992.

New Zealand accomplished some of the goals they had set for their match against Afghanistan, although perhaps not in the order they would have wanted. Then again, according to senior player Dan Vettori, forget talk of specific objectives to be taken from games; all New Zealand are focused on is winning: "You guys are the ones who want boxes ticked," he said last night.

Captain Ab De Villiers faces loss, has "nothing good to say about the team at the moment."

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis "thrilled" with victory against South Africa,but focused on quarter finals.

New Zealand will field the same XI for the fifth straight World Cup game when they face Afghanistan at McLean Park tomorrow. Captain Brendon McCullum revealed there would be no change as New Zealand press on in search of completing a 100 percent winning record in group A of the tournament. There is now the real possibility that the other four players in the squad, Kyle Mills, Tom Latham, Mitchell McClenaghan and Nathan McCullum will not get a game in the cup, with New Zealand wedded to the same XI.

Former St George Illawarra playmaker Rangi Chase has the rugby league world in raptures over his sensational try assist from the weekend. Video / YouTube: Super League TV

NZ Herald cricket scribes Andrew Alderson and David Leggat discuss the upcoming Black Caps vs Afghanistan match.

Gregor Paul and Pat McKendry discuss how Rene Ranger is needed back at the Blues, now and in 2016.

Dozens of surfers took to St Clair Beach yesterday to mark the centenary of Duke Kahanamoku's visit to Dunedin. Organiser Shay Dewey said the event was a celebration of Duke Kahanamoku's ''gift''. 'What we are celebrating is his gift of surfing that he gave to the rest of the world,'' Mr Dewey said.

The five-hour trip had a few glitches for Lydia Ko before her journey past huge galleries to an 18th hole coronation at the NZ Open. The world women's golf No1 survived a few mid-round tremors to steady and add a second national crown (by four shots) to her success last week at the Australian Open.

Michael Clarke on Saturday night savaged his team's batting as "horrendous" but hailed the performance of Mitchell Starc as genius after the left-arm quick almost pulled off an extraordinary comeback win against New Zealand.

Kane Williamson lofted himself into cricketing folklore last night. With New Zealand nine down chasing 152 for victory against Australia, he deposited Pat Cummins over long on with a match-winning six to finish on 45 not out and carry the Black Caps to the top of their Cricket World Cup pool and the Chappell-Hadlee trophy.

A stunning eagle ignited Lydia Ko remarkable course record 61 today at Clearwater as the world No 1 opened up a decent lead on the field. After a sloppy opening bogey, Ko eagled the next hole and added another 10 birdies as she blitzed the previous course record by two and opened up a three shot lead on the field.

The World Cup legend, 52, who is battling terminal cancer, played in a legends knockabout at his beloved Cornwall Park today, before making a brief appearance in front of the media. "My dad's ashes are out there, so I thought it would be nice to bat an over. I've treated this as my last outing on the old ground.

Three quick-fire thoughts on why run rates have increased dramatically: 1.Big bats and smaller grounds. They bats are dryer and therefore can carry more wood. The boundary ropes have been pulled in on many grounds. Ergo, even mishits are sometimes carrying for six. 2.The fielding restrictions have made outfields so much harder to patrol. At no stage in an ODI is the captain allowed to post more than four players outside the circle. In the past, they have been allowed five. This has given quality batsmen more scope to hit boundaries. 3.Most importantly, attitude. Batsmen are not beholden to averages. They are allowed to fail in the pursuit of quick runs. This has been the single-biggest shift in limited overs cricket.

Daniel Vettori put on his Captain Sensible hat today, amid all the kerfuffle about Saturday's World Cup game between New Zealand and Australia assuming massive historic proportions. Vettori did enter the sledging debate, given that no conversation about Australia is complete without the verbals being raised. "In 18 years I can't remember being sledged by an Australian team.

This wonderfully nonchalant spinning winner was captured at a friendly match between two players from the American sponsorship set-up "Team Nexy USA". Video: YouTube - Art Fido.com

How slender are the margins. Chris Gayle went out to bat for the West Indies yesterday condemned, if not quite in so many words, as a washed-up mercenary wastrel. Disillusionment abounded with the way he approached his work. The president of his team's cricket board had felt emboldened to retweet a message during the previous match that said: "Gayle goes... Can't buy a run. Let's give him a retirement package ... Can't fail repeatedly and still front up based on reputation."

" Chris Gayle bludgeoned a World Cup-record 215 containing 16 sixes and shared a 372-run partnership with Marlon Samuels in a stunning return to form Tuesday to guide the West Indies to a 73-run win over Zimbabwe. Under intense pressure after failing to score a one-day international century since June 2013, Gayle had a reprieve when he survived an lbw appeal on the first ball he faced from Tinashe Panyangara.

Fresh from blasting the first ever Cricket World Cup double century, West Indies powerhouse Chris Gayle has warned heavyweight opponents South Africa that his side has a "score to settle" with them. The Windies posted 2-372 in Canberra on Tuesday in front of 5,544 spectators to record the highest one-day international score on Australian soil. Gayle smashed 215 runs off 147 balls in the 73-run rain affected win, the fastest ever ODI double ton.

Three quick-fire thoughts from Dylan Cleaver on the best match-ups to watch during Saturday's New Zealand v Australia blockbuster.

New Zealand are expecting Australia to come at them with a two-pronged attack in the clutch World Cup clash at Eden Park on Saturday - batting and bowling, and also plenty of verbals.

Scotland's hopes of inflicting an improbable defeat on their border neighbours were dashed at Hagley Oval today. Having seen England get well beaten by Australia and, more humiliatingly, New Zealand, in the early days of the World Cup, the Scots fancied they could follow up with a victory like no other.

1. Nobody wants to take on New Zealand at the moment... except Australia. That is why this is such an anticipated clash. 2. India look the real deal, South Africa look bereft of new ideas. This is not something I envisaged before the tournament and it's not something that will necessarily hold.

1.Can England win in Wellington tonight? Of course they can. 2. This is pretty clearly what Mike Hesson and Brendon McCullum consider their 1st XI. 3.It would give the camp a lot of confidence if Ross Taylor not only scored some significant runs today, but scored them fluently.

New Zealand Herald rugby scribes Gregor Paul and Patrick McKendry discuss Dan Carters future as the five-five struggles with injury again in World Cup year.