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New Sri Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne has included many former veterans to try and motivate his tournament opener on the eve of his tournament against New Zealand. The Sri Lankans are former winners of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup - back in 1996 - but enter this year's edition in the difficult recent run form. In the England and Wales teams, they have been placed in ninth place among the 10 teams that have been eliminated in 5 years, have been eliminated from 5-0 in three years, and have called on Karunaratne to give place to the team, despite the fact that the opener is four years old I will not play ODI cricket for my country. But the likes of the 1996 champion Arjuna Ranatunga and Kumar Sangakkara gave their support to the team. And Karunaratne - who inspired his country to win the Test series in South Africa earlier this year - are feeling confident on the eve of its tournament opener against New Zealand in Cardiff. "Come tell us and give us some words of advice

Nottingham: Twice the winner of the West Indies, winning the ICC World Cup, defeated Pakistan by seven wickets in their first match at the Trent Bridge ground on Friday. The West Indies piled up 105 runs in 21.4 overs. After the shameful defeat to Pakistan, Pakistani captain Sarfaraz Ahmed gave the statement, he is more shocked. He said that we do not think much about today's defeat. Sarfaraz said that the World Cup's first match was expected of a tough match against the West Indies but is feeling relieved that Mohammed Aamir, returning to the form, took all three wickets. Pakistan lost to West Indies by seven wickets due to a collapse of 105 runs. It was his 11th consecutive one-day match in ODIs. "The first thing to start here is very important," said Sarfaraz in the press conference after the match, "It is very important for our team to start, so we wanted to bowl first, I think we lost a lot of wickets at the beginning, so We could not return to the match. &q

Image Credits: Twitter/@ICC England made a creditable start for their Cricket World Cup campaign because they crushed South Africa in the tournament opener by 104 runs on Thursday in The Oval. Ben Stokes scored the highest of 89, and after the host team sent for batting, scored a competitive total of 311 for eight. Jopra Archer took two early wickets and South Africa never saw the possibility of reaching their goal, getting out of the 20th over in the 40th over, gave the World Cup favorite England the right start. Stokes said, "I'm sure some nervous kicks were all around - I`ve never felt that it's not so in the long run. It's a great start to come up with victory." "As we did, to perform - I think we have done the best in almost two or three years." The score we scored was fantastic. " England lost Johnny Bairstow on the second ball of the match, wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock caught by spinner Imran Tahir, but Jason Roy and Joe Root shared a 106-run