New Zealand, continuing with their good form after the win over England, blanked Ireland to record a victory with the highest margin in ODI history.
They scored 402 for 2 and bowled out Ireland for 112 to record a win by 290 runs, beating India’s record of 257 run margin over Bermuda in the 2007 world [...]

Scott Styris starred for New Zealand as the Black Caps finished their tour of England in style with a 51-run series-clinching victory in the fifth One-Day International at Lord’s on Saturday. Man-of-the-match Styris’s 91 ball 87 was the centrepiece of New Zealand’s 266 for five, which also featured a rapid fifty from his fellow [...]

Kevin Pietersen has been named England’s captain for the final match of their one-day series after Paul Collingwood was banned for four ODIs.
Collingwood was found guilty of Level 3 ICC Code of Conduct breach following his side’s failure to bowl their overs in the required time during their dramatic one-wicket defeat against New Zealand at [...]

New Zealand won a rousing thriller to take a 2-1 lead in the five match series with only one match remaining in the five match series.
Scott Styris hit 69, Jacob Oram marked his first game of the series with a crucial 38, and Kyle Mills remained unbeaten on 25, which all contributed to a hair-raising, [...]

New Zealand teenager Tim Southee took four wickets to lead the Kiwis to a 22-run win against England in the third one-day international on Saturday.
New Zealand had appeared to be heading for a comprehensive defeat earlier after they slumped to 49 for five but after taking 50 runs from their last five overs to [...]

The ICC has acted swiftly to amend the rule regarding the length of the interval in ODIs in response to the farcical finish to the second one-dayer between New Zealand and England at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
For the final three matches of the series officials will be allowed to reduce the length of the interval if [...]

New Zealand were denied the chance of a series-levelling victory as rain had the final say at Edgbaston one over before Duckworth-Lewis would have been able to calculate a result.
With Brendon McCullum marshalling the chase, New Zealand would have needed seven runs from the 20th over to be at the winning score of 134, but [...]

Kevin Pietersen will be allowed to carry on playing his extraordinary ‘reverse slog-sweep’ after MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), cricket’s rule-makers, announced they would not be outlawing the ’switch-hit’.
“MCC believes that the ’switch-hit’ stroke is exciting for the game of cricket,” said a statement issued by MCC following a meeting at it’s Lord’s headquarters in London [...]

The MCC, the guardians of cricket’s laws, will discuss the legality of the shots played by Kevin Pietersen during the first ODI against New Zealand at Chester-le-Street when they meet at Lord’s on Tuesday. In the course of his match-winning century, Pietersen twice switched his grip and stance to hit Scott Styris for six, essentially [...]

Kevin Pietersen’s unbeaten 110 helped England thrash New Zealand by 114 runs in the first One-Day International at the Riverside on Sunday.The 27-year-old faced 113 balls with three sixes - two of them outrageous reverse sweeps off medium-pacer Scott Styris - and eight fours.Together with England One-day captain Paul Collingwood, who made a run-a-ball 64 [...]