UDRS is one of my favorite topics in cricket and yet again the much maligned system came under the radar during the most exciting game of the World Cup so far. The match was on a knife’s edge at the start of the 25th over of the English chase. Yuvraj Singh struck Ian Bell, let out a vociferous appeal only to be denied by Billy Bowden. India were forced to play the hand that they loath. Use UDRS. Everything seemed to be alright and even the crowd let out a roar and even Bell had walked half way toward the change rooms. However there was another variable everyone had to contend with the 2.5 meter rule.

The value of a wicket-taking strike bowler during the middle overs of an ODI cannot be understated, as Shoaib once again proved today.

Following heavy defeats for Kenya and Canada on Sunday against New Zealand and Sri Lanka respectively, Zimbabwe couldn’t back up a decent showing in the first 50 overs of the match against Australia and consequently subsided against the Australian pace attack to mark another comfortable victory for the full member sides against the so-called minnows.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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…

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.