A leading Pakistan bank has suspended a high-profile publicity campaign featuring Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi after billboards and posters were defaced in Karachi

Mike Gatting continues to be accosted at airports around the world with unkind questions on his sanity - why did he try the reverse sweep of Allan Border in the final of the 1987 World Cup

The 2007 World Cup has been severely criticised for its poor crowds, lack of competition and several other shortcomings but Richard Boock, in The New Zealand , herald, has come out in defence of the Caribbean.

Specialist coaches with a professional manager could be the way forward for India

"I'm going to bet that Shane Watson hadn't learnt how to get down on one knee and scoop-heave a yorker-length ball over the fine leg boundary for a six in that young cricketer's technical bible, Don Bradman's The Art of Cricket," says Aakash Chopra

The Indian Cricket League may shake the system out of its lethargy

Duncan Fletcher, the England coach, believes that the recent arrival of the team's wives and girlfriends can play a key role in raising England’s game during what will be a vital week for them in the World Cup.

"A common criticism made of top-flight sportsmen is that they lack perspective

"Why is nobody asking any questions about the political situation in Zimbabwe?" asks Andy Bull in The Guardian .

Sri Lanka to play minnows with the same intensity as the rest

According to some, he is the best-ever batsman never to realise his full potential

Bob Woolmer analyses Pakistan's defeat against West Indies in the opening match of the World Cup

Glenn Rogers, the Scotland spinner who was born in Australia, was stricken by typhoid in Kenya less than six weeks ago

"It was almost predictable that with the team settled in the West Indies, momentum on its side after recent wins, Dilip Vengsarkar, inadvertently you think, lobs a hand grenade into the calm about Sehwag's selection," writes Rohit Brijnath in The

In a tightly bunched field Ian Chappell favours Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and India to scramble into the final four

Unlucky XI: Andrew Miller on the players who missed the World Cup cut

John Buchanan is now in the firing line given the litany of injuries, retirements, paternity breaks and general weariness that is afflicting his team at present