• Amla, du Plessis tons pummel Ireland
• Ireland face their biggest challenge
• Pakistan batsmen craft huge win
• 'Tri-series was a sheer waste of time' - Shastri
• Tendulkar calls for 25-team World Cup

Letter to de Villiers

South Africa's captain needs to single out his players for attention and get them firing individually and as a team

Pakistan's bad cover version of 1992

The events in Brisbane may not matter much in the big picture of this World Cup, but to Misbah-ul-Haq and his men, it may yet be the spring board to repeat what happened 23 years ago

The 'magic wand' behind India's turnaround

It has helped that India have a captain who has lasted as long as he has due to his approach of treating cricket for what it is: a game

Indian batting in need of the knockout punch

Following their dominant start to the World Cup, India have three relatively low-pressure games to fine-tune ahead of the knockouts, and they will want to get their death-overs batting right

15 overs, 222 runs

AB de Villiers returned to give West Indies another hammering, this time at the SCG