Day-night cricket a step into the unknown for England

England skipper says it will great for controversial all-rounder Ben Stokes to be back on the field.

Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has already taken over 100 wickets for South Africa in both Test and one-day cricket games, which bodes well for the 23-year-old and his team ahead of the World Cup in England and Wales this summer. Here is all you need to know:

Australia extends their 100 percent start to their World Cup title defence with a 15-run win against the West Indies at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

Eoin Morgan hails "incredible journey" after England's win against New Zealand in a thrilling final at Lord's. Kane Williamson admits New Zealand's defeat against England is "hard to swallow".

They play on a football pitch with plastic wickets and most Chinese people have never even heard of cricket. But a devoted band of followers says the sport is gradually growing in China, where there is thought to be only one grass cricket pitch for a population of 1.4 billion people.

Sachin Tendulkar long carried a nation's cricketing hopes on his shoulders. But in 2011, at his last World Cup on home soil, his teammates returned the favor. Fans voted it the sporting moment of the century so far.

The women's T20 Cricket World Cup opened with a huge upset for India against defending champions Australia. But the excitement usually generated by the men's game in India was conspicuously absent.

After a long week cooking and cleaning in the cramped households of Hong Kong, a group of Filipino domestic helpers are using their Sunday off for an unlikely hobby: cricket. And they're proving rather good at it.

Australia's cricket team train head of the Boxing Day Test against India in Melbourne. Skipper Tim Paine says India is a proud nation that won't roll over in the second Test, and Australia must be "bang on the mark" to inflict more misery after their Adelaide collapse.

An England cricket fan who waited 10 months in Sri Lanka to watch his team play is escorted away by police before a ball had been bowled in the first Test. Rob Lewis, who decided to stay in the country after the original tour was aborted over the coronavirus last March, tried to watch the game from the historic ramparts of Galle Fort, a vantage point which overlooks the city's cricket ground. But he was ordered off there just after the national anthems. The game was held behind closed doors because of the pandemic.

The former batsman announced on Twitter that it was a precautionary measure. He originally tested positive for the virus on March 27.

When a burgeoning cricket program threatened to run out of bats in Brazil, the solution was both simpler and harder than anyone anticipated: make your own.