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New Zealand beat Pakistan by 64 runs in the second one-day international at Sheikh Zayed stadium on Friday.

Scoreboard from the second one-day international between Pakistan and New Zealand at Sheikh Zayed stadium on Friday.

New Zealand scored 303 for eight wickets against Pakistan in their second one-day international at Sheikh Zayed stadium on Friday.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly today returned as the Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper for next year's Indian Premier League, replacing New Zealand's Brendon McCullum.

Guwahati, Nov 6 (IANS) After the run-feast at Hyderabad, fans can expect another high-scoring entertainer between India and Australia in the sixth One-Day International at the Nehru Stadium here Sunday.

Guwahati (Assam), Nov.6 (ANI): Security has been tightened for the sixth one-day international between India and Australia to be played here on Sunday.

Hyderabad, Nov 6(ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and former captain Mark Taylor have said that New South opener Phillip Hughes could re-ignite his Test career during the series against West Indies.

Hyderabad/Mumbai, Nov.6 (ANI): Cricket fans here and in Mumbai have hailed batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar's landmark feat of 17,000 one-day international runs.

London, Nov.6 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has expressed his delight over a new three-year deal with English County cricket team Lancashire. Flintoff, 31, will play limited overs cricket for the county after he called time on his England Test career at the end of the summer.

Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- In a thriller of a match, Australia whisked away a narrow victory despite a brilliant 175 by Sachin Tendulkar and some hard hitting towards the end by Jadeja and Praveen Kumar. Australian fielding struck form towards the end of the Indian innings after several mis-fields and missing run-out chances.

Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is showing exactly why he is called that. At 168, which is also his third highest individual score, Tendulkar has struck 19 boundaries and is looking good for more. Raina, however has departed after playing a good knock of 59 runs. Ravindra Jadeja has replaced him at the crease with Harbhajan to follow.

New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Fifteen years' experience, 106 first-class games and 320 wickets could not get him a ball on the entire third day even as Railways, desperately, and successfully, kept gnawing at the Tamil Nadu line-up.

New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Finally there was some applause and noise from the Delhi under-22 camp, Vikas Mishra and Pawan Suyal.

Vadodara, Nov. 5 -- It's quite easy and convenient for bowlers to blame their failure on a 'placid' and 'unresponsive' wicket.

Meerut, Nov. 5 -- It seems that even before the start of the Karnataka second innings, Rahul Dravid had told his batsmen to play their shots with a free hand.

For a team which couldn't chase 250 in perfect batting conditions about 72 hours ago, getting 100 more even on a batting beauty seemed too tall a task. So what if bowling was reduced to an exercise in futility and Australia were without all first-choice bowlers.

Mumbai, Nov. 5 -- Media doesn't usually wait for pre-teen budding cricketers. But then it is not everyday that 12-year-olds score 439 runs. Springfield Rizvi High School's Sarfaraz Khan became the most sought after cricketer in Mumbai on a day his idol Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to cross 17,000 ODI runs.

Abu Dhabi, Nov.6 (ANI): Riding high on the win in the first game of the three match series against New Zealand, Pakistan captain Younis Khan has said that his team has the potential to crush the Black Caps in all the three games.

These are not good times for VVS Laxman. With India showing little urgency in playing Tests more frequently, Laxman has had to make do with first-class cricket. At the moment, even that isn?t happening ? a stiff back ruled him out of the his team?s ongoing Ranji match against Himachal Pradesh. Laxman is hoping to play the next match against Punjab. He spoke to HT on Thursday.

For those with a nose for numbers, here's something interesting. Sachin Tendulkar took 17 balls on Thursday to score the seven runs he needed to reach 17,000 ODI runs. The capacity crowd at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium didn't have much to cheer till then and broke into a roar which drowned the voice of the deejay on the loudspeaker.