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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

As chance would have it, England's match against Scotland was the day after the fourth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

If the sky hasn't quite fallen in on Brisbane, there has been more than enough rain to place Saturday's fixture between Australia and Bangladesh at the Gabba in grave doubt

It took only seven balls for Samiullah Shenwari's delight at Afghanistan's first appearance in a World Cup to descend into personal disaster as the focus turned once again onto the umpiring confusion that has scarred the first week of cricket's biggest tournament