Insights
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 / 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
ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / 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
ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / 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
ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / 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
ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 / 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.
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
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.
Why a ten-team World Cup is right
Some say that if a football World Cup can have as many teams as it does, why can't cricket? Well, you can have as many as four 90-minute games in a day but a 50-over game consumes pretty much a full day.
Unloved, underprepared: what did cricket expect?
Amjad Javed, Khurram Khan and Krishna Chandran Karate play cricket for the United Arab Emirates. They also work for one of the national airlines of their country, Emirates.
A Christchurch miracle and an Afghan cartwheel
As chance would have it, England's match against Scotland was the day after the fourth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
Hoping to silence the noisy neighbours
Melbourne, 1981. Trevor Chappell accedes to the instruction of his brother, Greg, to bowl the final ball of a one-day international against New Zealand under-arm with six needed to win. And one of the biggest controversies in the sport is born. It brings condemnation from many, including the third brother, Ian Chappell, and the Prime Ministers of both Australia and New Zealand.
The art of Amla
It was an exhibition match in England against amateur cricketers. As expected, the pitch wasn't the best, and the bowler didn't have too much pace either.
Happy to be upset
There are two ways of looking at an upset. You can take a mischievous joy in it: revelling in the way the traditional order is set on its head and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Or you can find it profoundly distressing: as if the safe world you live in had lost its senses.
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.
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?