A comparison between England’s 2007 and 2011 World Cup squads.

Without doubt, the group stages of the ongoing World Cup have some matches, which don’t really invoke a lot of excitement. We sort through the schedule and pick some matches which look promising, atleast on paper.

As the 10th World Cup begins we have an extract from a new book dealing with what some might argue was the first ever World Cup, back in 1912.

We have queried the Fantasy Cricket World Cup competition to find the most selected players by you the visitor and bring to you a combined 11.

Fasten your seatbelts. It all starts in a few hours.

The Federation of International Cricketers Associations’ (FICA) Chief Executive Tim May confirmed today that the issue of Security for players, officials and spectators is still a high priority for its organization.

A few days ago, I had a look at which batsmen were most likely to satisfy my thirst for excitement this world cup by ranking them by their strike rates. Today, I thought I’d do the same for the bowlers, again by looking at their strike rates.

With so many of the sides capable of beating each other on their day, it promises to be a particularly difficult tournament to predict… but that hasn’t stopped the staff at Cricket Web. Englishmen Martyn Corrin, Martin Chandler, Marcuss Deane and Jake Howe are joined by Indian fans Manjunath Reddlapalli and Ganesh Venkat and New Zealander James Nixon to give their verdict on what’s in store for us in the next month…

With just a couple of days to go before the event starts, here is Cricket Web’s collaborative preview from Ganesh Venkat, Angikaar C and Jake Howe of how the teams are expected to fare.

Here I take a look, with the help of some statistics, at some or the World Cup’s most exciting batsmen.