ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / Size not the only challenge for NZ at MCG

It is not merely size that will be foreign to a New Zealand side that has not played in Australia, let alone the MCG, since 2011.

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / Sledging Inevitable!

Sledging is no more inevitable than double-parking, expenses-fiddling or stealing someone else's milk to make your tea.

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / Jason Holder's trial by fire

The concern was genuine, widespread and well-founded. Clive Lloyd's appointment of Jason Holder as the new West Indies captain for an initiation in South Africa against South Africa

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / Porterfield attacks ICC mentality

Ireland's captain William Porterfield has not yet signed the petition for the retention of a 14-team World Cup, but based on his rhetoric at the Gabba on Tuesday, that can only be a matter of time.

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / Why week 2 of #cwc15 is huge

How will the second week of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 treat the various teams hoping to make it to the knock-out stage of this competition?

Pakistan-India match to set the pulse racing

'The sense of excitement that used to build up days in advance, is still very much a part of my DNA today,' says former India paceman Javagal Srinath

Size not the only challenge for NZ at MCG

It is not merely size that will be foreign to a New Zealand side that has not played in Australia, let alone the MCG, since 2011.

Sledging Inevitable!

Sledging is no more inevitable than double-parking, expenses-fiddling or stealing someone else's milk to make your tea.

Not such an English game anymore

At a fund-raising dinner for the LBW Trust in Sydney on Saturday night, writer and historian Mike Coward, speaking as master of ceremonies, made an observation

McCullum promises attack-first mentality

There is a chill in the Wellington air, thoughts are turning to autumn and beanies have been the order of the day at training - not just for the West Indians

Australia hope Adelaide grass greener

Australia are hopeful a well-grassed Adelaide Oval pitch will provide enough assistance for the hosts' fast bowlers to dismantle Pakistan

Build, build, blast off

In contrast to previous World Cups, this time most teams seem to have followed a strategy of constructing an innings till about the last quarter and then launching an all-out attack

A familiar despair marks Taylor's farewell

Taylor walked slowly towards Masakadza, and then stopped some way short. He lay down on his back and spent the rest of the interval getting some stretching done on his legs.

Jason Holder's trial by fire

The concern was genuine, widespread and well-founded. Clive Lloyd's appointment of Jason Holder as the new West Indies captain for an initiation in South Africa against South Africa

Still the king

Viv Richards has been crowned the greatest one-day cricketer ever by a jury of 50 eminent players, commentators and writers assembled by the Cricket Monthly.

Tahir, Ashwin and Vettori buck World Cup trend

In a recent interview, former offspinner Erapalli Prasanna said that a bowler like him would have been successful in the shorter forms of the game today, with the heavier bats, field restrictions and aggressive, innovative stroke-play.