In his column in The Age Greg Baum looks at the relationship between Australia and India and wonders if “the gap can ever be bridged” .

Alexei Kervezee, the 17-year-old batsman from Netherlands, is so young he says he could call Glenn McGrath “Dad”

Jon Pierik reports in the Herald Sun Glenn McGrath is set to finish his career at first change .

Australia and South Africa might be staying in the same St Kitts hotel, but don’t expect the fierce rivals to share breakfast

Jonty Rhodes apparently burst out laughing when told Glenn McGrath still thinks South Africa can’t handle pressure

Not many World Cup teams can boast a link to Sherlock Holmes, AFP reports

"Sunil Gavaskar's increasingly puritanical tone reached new levels of ridiculousness when he said Australia's cricketers would be in danger of being belted if they carried on in a bar as they do on the cricket field,” writes Chloe Saltau in The

Ricky Ponting has obviously not noticed how rival teams have been buoyed by Australia’s five-match ODI losing streak

As a bowler Glenn McGrath has been excellent at figuratively keeping his hand around batsmen’s throats

AFP runs through some of the World Cup upsets , starting with Sri Lanka's win over India in 1979

Scotland have a couple of Australians in their squad and one of them has offered some selection suggestions for the opening game

The tournament hasn’t started but the late-night rumours about the West Indians have

Ricky Ponting, in his column in The Australian , rates the modern greats who will probably be playing their final World Cup .

In the Sun-Herald Paul Hoffmann, who is from central Queensland but is playing for Scotland, looks back at his run-ins with Australia’s current players

Four years ago Michael Clarke arrived in the West Indies as a player who was so anonymous Brian Lara thought he was a reporter

Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun about the Australian slow bowlers holding a “spin summit” .

Jon Pierik, writing in the Herald Sun , worries about Australia’s lack of quality spin options during a tournament where the pitches are expected to offer turn.

In her blog Monique Devereux wonders whether New Zealand’s body-slamming wicket celebrations were behind the shock warm-up loss to Bangladesh.