Australia are on track for a one-day series whitewash over India after a 25-run win in Canberra on Wednesday.

As an established part of New Zealand's limited overs bowling set-up for three years, he has morphed from new ball bowler to first or second change.

Auckland have failed in their bid to qualify for domestic cricket's Ford Trophy's major semifinal, falling instead into an elimination scrap with Otago on Saturday.

An Australian TV personality has engaged in an extraordinary war of words with controversial West Indian cricket star Chris Gayle.

One of the joys of sport is the unpredictable nature of competition - the underdog beating the odds to record a famous win, or the favourite inexplicably falling short with victory in sight.

There has never been a more composed stroke in New Zealand's one-day international cricket history.

Guptill returned to his champion form of the moment, finishing on 87 off 58 balls, while Williamson, who battled with his timing at Eden Park, producing a classy 48-ball 71. Together they poleaxed Pakistan.

New Zealand batsmen have produced an extraordinary run of world milestones over the past year.

Captain Williamson - 72 off 48 balls - and Martin Guptill with 87 off 58, carried New Zealand to what transpired was an easy win, to set up an enticing decider in Wellington on Friday night, putting on 171. That eclipsed by one run the old mark for highest T20 international stand for any wicket

Kane Williamson is well aware of the vagaries of T20. ''Fickle'' he has called it, and to illustrate the point, consider the first two games against Pakistan.

Rolling coverage of the second T20 clash New Zealand and Pakistan at Seddon Park.

A 45-minute wait for a beer? That's nothing, writes Chris Rattue.

The prospects of a New Zealand team entering Australia's Big Bash League are still a long way off, according to Cricket Australia's Mike McKenna.

Eden Park's new boss acknowledges mistakes were made by the organisers of Friday night's T20 clash between New Zealand and Pakistan.

Kevin Hart, veteran of 37 summers behind the microphone at the venue, is retiring.

Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns' return to the workforce could be fraught with more problems than first thought.

Colin Munro has become a one-man T20 wrecking crew, writes Andrew Alderson.

So where might Cairns' future employment come from? From the outside looking in, he has three obvious options, writes Andrew Alderson.