My heart says New Zealand, head South Africa

Jan 29, 2015: How the top eight teams stack up ahead of the World Cup, plus predictions for the knockouts

Australian cricket

Simon Katich, Aussie Rules Football '12th man'

Jan 27, 2015: How Simon Katich went from Test cricketer to messenger boy to operations manager for another sport that he loved equally

Penalty runs the best punishment for slow over rates

Jan 27, 2015: Fines and suspensions have had no effect. Awarding the opposition runs for every over a team falls short in a Test innings will definitely bite harder

'Vibrant and chilled out'

Jan 26, 2015: Brisbane locals and tourists talk about the Queensland capital's weather, restaurants, botanical gardens and river

How to construct a one-day chase

Jan 26, 2015: Focus on targets smaller than winning the match, and back your tailenders to deliver for you

Men of the Finals

'Gilly wasn't the batsman we were worried about'

Jan 26, 2015: Sri Lanka didn't anticipate a hundred hit by a batsman with a squash ball in his glove would end their World Cup dreams in 2007

Australia v England, Carlton Mid Tri-Series, Hobart

White's two deliveries in four years

Jan 23, 2015: Plays of the day from the Carlton Mid Tri-Series ODI, between Australia and England in Hobart

Australia v England, Carlton Mid Tri-Series, Hobart

Bell becomes top run-getter for England in ODIs

Jan 23, 2015: Stats highlights from the fourth ODI of the Carlton Mid Tri-Series between Australia and England in Hobart

Australian challenge for spinners

Jan 23, 2015: Spinners have found it more difficult to take ODI wickets in Australia than in any other country, especially in the middle overs

In KP's tyre tracks

Jan 23, 2015: Travelling the Great Ocean Road is best done in a hired car, if not a yellow Lamborghini

Len Pascoe

The contradictory fear of the fast bowler

Jan 22, 2015: When he was a young and ferocious fast bowler, Len Pascoe wanted the batsmen to be afraid of him. But he also had his own fear. That he would hit someone too badly

Forgotten Classics

Zimbabwe's Trent Bridge coup

Jan 22, 2015: In 1983, the minnows stunned the cricketing world in their first international match by upsetting a disunited Australia

On TV it looks uglier than it actually is

Jan 21, 2015: Often reasonable arguments on the field look nasty beyond the boundary and on camera

Of ghosting Imran and other tales

Jan 21, 2015: Being at the 1987 and 1992 World Cups - one as a journalist, another as a member of the BCCI - was a study in contrasts

What makes Warner snap?

Jan 20, 2015: His tendency to get in opponents' faces has been in focus in recent weeks. Do we know what is motivating this behaviour?

Australia v India, Carlton Mid Tri-Series, Melbourne

Starc six tops Chappell

Jan 18, 2015: Stats highlights from the second ODI of the Carlton Mid Tri-Series between India and Australia in Melbourne

Why cricket needs yellow and red cards

Jan 18, 2015: David Warner's repeated transgressions tell us that the game has a discipline problem that has got out of hand

Australia v India, Carlton Mid Tri-Series, Melbourne

Dhoni's late cut while 'keeping

Jan 18, 2015: Plays of the day from the second ODI of the Carlton Mid Tri-Series, between Australia and India in Melbourne

1979

The start of saturation cricket

Jan 17, 2015: Australia's international tri-series came out of financial necessity and the need to appease a broadcaster

The first genuine legbreak in England in years

Jan 17, 2015: In which the author tries to cover up a faux pas made while talking to the Queen