India in West Indies

Final one-day international, Trinidad.
West Indies 191 all out (36.2 overs) v India 260 all out (50 overs).

India win by 56 runs (D/L method)

India were comfortable winners over the West Indies in the fifth and final one-day international to claim a 2-1 series win.

The tourists won by 56 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method after rain was again a factor at the Queen's Park Oval on Sunday.

India had set a tough target after half-centuries from skipper Sourav Ganguly and leading batsman Sachin Tendulkar saw them score 260 from their 50 overs.

Tendulkar, who was a doubt for the game with a shoulder problem, scored 65 from just 70 balls to win the man-of-the-match award.

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Sri Lanka in England

Second Test, Edgbaston, day four
Sri Lanka 162 & 272; England 545.

England win by an innings and 111 runs. Seamers Matthew Hoggard and Andy Caddick have powered England to a crushing victory over Sri Lanka in the second Test.

The home side's win gives them a 1-0 series lead with just one match remaining.

Hoggard and Caddick claimed one wicket each in the morning session as the day started with the tourists 252 runs behind with just eight wickets in hand.

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Proud England captain Nasser Hussain was able to reflect on an emphatic Test victory on Sunday in which his team was stronger than the opposition in every department of the game.

Hussain praised his team's all-round performance after two batsmen scored centuries and Sri Lanka were twice bowled out cheaply with his team winning by an innings and 111 runs.

Sri Lanka collapsed after lunch on the fourth day, losing their last five wickets for 39 runs as England took a 1-0 lead in the series with one Test left to play.

"Everyone contributed and we used the conditions well to get 500 on a wicket that suited their bowlers," Hussain said.

Death of Hansie Cronje

The bodies of former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje and two pilots have been taken to a mortuary after a helicopter crew picked them up off the mountain side in Western Cape province where they were killed in a plane crash.

Their remains were extricated from the wreckage on Saturday, but the bad weather delayed the helicopter's flight to the scene outside the city of George, about 500 kilometres east of Cape Town.

Investigators have been collecting flight data recorders from the Hawker Siddeley 748 cargo plane which came down early on Saturday during bad weather, killing all three on board.

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News of Hansie Cronje's death in a plane crash has left the cricket world in a state of shock. Tributes have poured in from around the world of cricket for the 32-year-old former South Africa captain.

Former South Africa president Nelson Mandela said: "Here was a young man courageously and with dignity rebuilding his life after the setback he suffered a while ago.

"The manner in which he was doing that, rebuilding his life and public career, promised to make him once more a role model of how one deals with adversity."

Current South Africa president Thabo Mbeki added: "(His) prowess inspired our youth to greater heights. We shall remember his moments of sheer brilliance on the cricket pitch."

New Zealand's tour of West Indies

New Zealand have arrived in the Caribbean for a tour which marks 50 years of rivalry with the West Indies.

They will play two Tests and five one-day internationals during the month-long and having been mostly on the receving end over the past half a century, they are hopeful of some good results.

Following a one-day whitewash and a comprehensive innings defeat in the Test during the recent truncated trip to Pakistan, they have been reinforced by the return from injuries of batsman Nathan Astle and paceman Shane Bond.

But history is against them with New Zealand having won only six of the 30 Tests played between the two sides and having failed to win a single Test on three previous trips to the Caribbean.

Miscellaneous

Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action is paving the way for "a generation of chuckers", according to former Australian international umpire Ross Emerson.

Muralitharan, who is currently on tour in England, is widely regarded as one of the greatest spin bowlers in the history of the game.

But in an interview with the Perth Sunday Times, Emerson said; "Over in the sub-continent, they're now producing a generation of chuckers and nobody cares - it's just getting worse."

Emerson was sacked by the Australian Cricket Board when the Sri Lankan team threatened to walk off the field after he no-balled Muralitharan during a match in Adelaide in 1999.

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Coach Graham Ford has paid the price for the South African cricket team's failure in their home and away series against Australia.

The decision to sack Ford, together with team physio Craig Smith, was taken at Saturday's meeting of the United Cricket Board general council in Johannesburg.

But the meeting was overshadowed by the news of the death of former captain Hansie Cronje, who was killed in a plane crash in the Western Cape.

A minute's silence was observed in his memory. South Africa were whitewashed 3-0 in the Tests in Australia and then beaten 2-1 on home soil before losing a one-day series by a 6-1 margin.

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