Plays of the day from the IPL final between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab

Manish Pandey's 94 off 50 balls ensured Knight Riders did not fall behind the asking rate at any stage and achieved the target of 200 with three balls to spare

Plays of the day from the match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium

The scenes at the Wankhede Stadium were scarcely believable as Mumbai Indians' turnaround of a campaign that had begun so disastrously culminated in the most fairy-tale of finishes

Plays of the day from the match between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Ranchi

Sunrisers Hyderabad needed to win this game in Ranchi to avoid elimination and David Warner's punishing innings secured the two points that took his team to fifth place

While Kings XI Punjab seek to make the top-two slots for two cracks at the final, Sunrisers Hyderabad need a victory to break into the top four

The Plays of the day from the game between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Daredevils

Sunrisers' heavy top-order fired for the first time in the season to give their team their first points in the tournament

Plays of the day from the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab in Abu Dhabi

A successful chase of a target in excess of 200 is normally furious, full of power and towering shots. Glenn Maxwell and David Miller did it differently for Punjab

A look at what the eight IPL franchises did during the 2014 player auction and how their teams stack up

Here's what the franchises did on the first day of the 2014 IPL auction in Bangalore, what their teams look like, and what they need on the second day

Pakistan turned a Test that had been an abysmal advertisement for cricket for four days and one session on its head, with an incredible batting performance after lunch on the final day, when they scored 302 runs in 57.3 overs to sucker-punch Sri Lanka

Ahmed Shehzad scored his maiden Test hundred but Pakistan's progress on the third day was not swift enough to weaken Sri Lanka's grip on their 1-0 lead in the series

Sri Lanka's prospects of winning their first away series since 1999-00 (excluding those in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe) improved significantly after Angelo Mathews and Dilruwan Perera batted vast periods of time on the second day

The Sharjah surface - largely devoid of pace, lateral movement and turn - provided the setting for a game of patience on the first day of the deciding Test of the series

Plays of the Day from the second Twenty20 international between New Zealand and West Indies, in Wellington

Luke Ronchi played a second consecutive match-winning innings to not only win the Twenty20 series for New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium but also indicate that his flagging international career might have turned a corner

It had rained for most of the night in Dubai and the floodlights were switched on to brighten a gloomy morning, but there were no alarms for Sri Lanka once play began on time on the fifth day