Forget the speculation surrounding the identity of Duncan Fletcher's successor - the issue has been cut and dried with the bare minimum of fuss. Peter Moores has been unveiled as the new England coach almost before the ink has had to time to dry on Fletch

Andrew Miller looks back on the reign of Duncan Fletcher as England coach

Adrian Birrell warned that Ireland's cricket administrators that they need to take radical steps to ensure that their top players are available for future international engagements

In the aftermath of Ireland's World Cup farewell, Trent Johnston, their captain, dropped a broad hint that he would soon be announcing his retirement

Mahela Jayawardene brushed aside suggestions that they could have done with a sterner test with the semis looming

Plays of the Day, Ireland v Sri Lanka, Super Eights, Grenada

Ireland's incredible World Cup journey comes to a conclusion in Grenada, when they take on the tournament's mystery men, Sri Lanka, whose controversial selection policy resulted in a thumping defeat in their last match against Australia

Mahela Jayawardene has played down the decision to rest two of his team's key bowlers during their seven-wicket defeat to Australia

Only an ambush will be able to stop Australia from winning the World Cup

Plays of the Day

Monday's match in Grenada features the two teams that most observers agree are best-equipped to win the World Cup - Australia, the runaway favourites, and Sri Lanka, the romantics' choice

Another day brings another defeat in a South African World Cup campaign fraught - like all four before it - with the sort of pitfalls and predicaments that would have been subbed out of Homer's first draft of the Odyssey

Interesting moments of the day's play both on and off the field

Net run-rate is the spectre at this World Cup feast, and it is an issue about which Stephen Fleming is acutely aware

Ahead of their Super Eights showdown in Grenada, Sri Lanka and New Zealand had been billed as two of the most versatile and power-packed sides in the World Cup; by the dying stages of this bout, however, the Kiwis were visibly pulling their punches

Interesting moments of the day's plays both on and off the field

If there had been a pre-tournament poll of matches to whet the appetite, it's a safe bet that New Zealand against Sri Lanka - two nations overshadowed to the point of parody by brasher neighbours - would not have set many pulses racing

One minute the World Cup is the worst show on earth, devalued by too many mismatches and too many minnows; the next, one of those minnows has grown teeth and started nibbling the ankles of the big boys. On Wednesday Bangladesh take on England in a non-eve

As West Indies contemplated their navels and prepared to say farewell to their own World Cup party, South Africa's captain, Graeme Smith, expressed his delight at the manner in which his team had bounced back from their defeat against Bangladesh

Statistically it ain't over till it's over, but to all intents and purposes West Indies have bowed out of their own World Cup