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As this world cup draws to a close, I've been thinking about the positives and negatives of the format. There are quite a few of both...

Here's the latest update for the world cup simulation. I have New Zealand at 100%, but that's simply due to the probability of Paki...

Here's the latest update to the simulation. The first two graphs disagree slightly, and that's because I have two different metho...

The group stage of the World Cup is now roughly half way through, and there are 4 clear favourites to be the semi-finalists. Afghanistan i...

18 matches. That's all it took. 1 year and 45 days to go from relative obscurity to being one of the most talked about cricketers in t...

Viv Richards - by Aditya Naikdesai Growing up in the 1980's, cricket was all about three things: the mighty West Indies, Lance Cairn...

Reid and Matthews chat before the final over. It was the summer of 1990/91, just before Christmas. I was on holiday at my Aunty's pl...

I've heard a number of commentators say that man-for-man, Australia have better players, but New Zealand is a better team. This strikes...

In my previous post I ran a simulation to find out potential quarter-final places. I received some criticism for having England so low, an...

Here are 5 things I'm going to be watching for in this match. 1. I really enjoy watching Elton Chigumbura. He's the sort of player...

Every season there seems to be a cause célèbre among NZ cricket fans. In 2013 the call was that Brendon McCullum wasn't scoring enough ...

Over the past couple of days I've been called a troll, a Jonathan Agnew fan and even an Australia on twitter, because I have a position ...

The first time I met Brendon McCullum was when he and I were both on the same flight from Miami to St Kitts in 2012, and we both had to wait...

NZ will need to overcome ring rust today One of the reasons Mike Tyson was such a champion boxer was that in his early days he had fanta...

Trent Boult may be a key player in match 2 We now have a little more information about Bay Oval, and what it's all about.  We also h...

The circular Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui The countdown to the World Cup finally feels like it's started for real. South Africa are tou...

One of the matches that got me hooked on cricket was  this one  in Hobart in 1990, when Australia needed 2 runs to win going into the final ...

Is Cook the captain to correct England's ODI ship? There have been a lot of debates recently about the role of the top order in an O...