World Cup Cocktail

Leg spinning all rounder Seekkuge Prasanna will be flown to Australia as cover for the injured Rangana Herath.

"Rangana's wound is expected take 7-10 days to heal," an official release said. "Seekkuge will be sent to Australia only as a precautionary measure."

The injury puts Herath in doubt for the match against Australia on Sunday, but he is not necessarily ruled out yet. Prasanna's forthcoming arrival in Australia will not affect the squad unless Herath's injury is serious enough to rule him out of the tournament. Prasanna cannot, for example, come into the squad for the Australia match.

Smith struck on hand

Star Australian batsman Steve Smith is still a chance to feature against Afghanistan on Wednesday despite copping a hit to his hand on Tuesday.

Smith was in pain after being struck on his left hand while batting in the WACA Ground nets.

The 25-year-old iced his hand in the team's esky, before returning to batting duties.

Captain Michael Clarke said he didn't expect any lingering issues with Smith.

"Smithy got hit on the hand facing a spinner, and he went back in the nets, so I think he's fine," Clarke said.

Australia will wait until Wednesday before naming their team.

Tahir's run-in with crowd

Tahir again had a run-in with fans on the Manuka boundary, as he did there back in November last year when South Africa played Australia. Fielding on the boundary, someone yelled at Tahir, "Why don't you go stroke your pet camel?"

On Tuesday night, after hearing abuse from the crowd, the Pakistan-born Muslim alerted security to a man, who warned the spectator but allowed him to watch the rest of the game.

Witnesses in the crowd said the fan was "loud and annoying", but that the abuse wasn't racial.

A South Africa spokesperson also didn't think it was of a racial nature and said no official complaint would be made.

Kohli hurls abuse at journalist

India's premier batsman and team's vice-captain Virat Kohli today suddenly lost his cool after the training session as he hurled abuses at a journalist before the side's group league game against West Indies at the WACA on Friday.

It didn't occur to anybody that something of this sort will happen. Once Kohli was done with his training and was returning to the dressing room, he saw a scribe of a national daily in front of him.

To the horror of that journalist, Kohli started using filthiest of language and it went on for some time before he stormed off and some of the Indian team members looked amazed as to what exactly had happened.

The particular journalist also seemed clueless but once Kohli cooled down, he told someone about an article that had appeared about him and his girlfriend Anushka Sharma in a national daily and he thought that it was that particular journalist, who had written the story.

When he was told that he has mistaken this particular reporter as someone else, Kohli called one of the journalists and through him apologised for the incident.

According to reliable sources, Team Director Ravi Shastri has personally spoken to Kohli and advised him to keep his cool as it is unbecoming of a future India captain to behave in this manner publicly.

 --Compiled