One-day cricket isn't really my thing, but World Cup is World Cup, so I'll be taking an interest. Here's someone else who will be:
Who will win this World Cup? A month ago, only a simpleton would have bet on a team other than Australia, which has taken - in the past five years - to finishing off its foes as if at a turkey shoot on the road to Basra (first Gulf War, not second). Yet for reasons known only to the cricketing gods, Australia's form has collapsed in the weeks leading up to the Cup, and other teams - South Africa, India, even normally hangdog England - have scented the perfume of possibility, giving the impression that this might be the most unpredictable of all of cricket's World Cups.There's more in what follows for those of you who do not love Australia as a cricketing nation. Me, I just liked 'the perfume of possibility'.