Will World Cup marathon get second wind?

Damien Fleming, who looks back at his two World Cup campaigns in the Sunday Age, wonders if this tournament will finish on a high.

They say marathon runners hit the pain barrier and get a second wind to get them to the finishing line. Can this World Cup do the same? It's been a marathon and the pain barrier has been strung out over a month, but let's hope the second wind arrives in the form of an exciting finals series.

Brett Lee has been in India where he has met Bollywood producers and senior music label officials, David Sygall writes in the Sun-Herald.

"It's all happening," Lee said. "I love music and am interested in acting. Rather than think in a few years, 'I wish I'd done this or that' I thought, 'Bugger it, I'll give it a go'."