The value of a wicket-taking strike bowler during the middle overs of an ODI cannot be understated, as Shoaib once again proved today.

The object of the exercise is to select a team from all those who have played the game, but never at Test level. Can anyone improve on Martin’s selection?

Following heavy defeats for Kenya and Canada on Sunday against New Zealand and Sri Lanka respectively, Zimbabwe couldn’t back up a decent showing in the first 50 overs of the match against Australia and consequently subsided against the Australian pace attack to mark another comfortable victory for the full member sides against the so-called minnows.

A comparison between England’s 2007 and 2011 World Cup squads.

Without doubt, the group stages of the ongoing World Cup have some matches, which don’t really invoke a lot of excitement. We sort through the schedule and pick some matches which look promising, atleast on paper.

As the 10th World Cup begins we have an extract from a new book dealing with what some might argue was the first ever World Cup, back in 1912.

We have queried the Fantasy Cricket World Cup competition to find the most selected players by you the visitor and bring to you a combined 11.

Fasten your seatbelts. It all starts in a few hours.

The Federation of International Cricketers Associations’ (FICA) Chief Executive Tim May confirmed today that the issue of Security for players, officials and spectators is still a high priority for its organization.

A few days ago, I had a look at which batsmen were most likely to satisfy my thirst for excitement this world cup by ranking them by their strike rates. Today, I thought I’d do the same for the bowlers, again by looking at their strike rates.