The World Cup runneth over (and over and over)

Anyone who believes match fixing is dead in the ranks of Pakistan cricket must be feeling somewhat red faced after witnessesing Kamran Akmal's facile misses off the bowling of Shoaib Akhtar last night. Ross Taylor, who went on to score a matchwinning ton, was dropped twice in the most absurd manner. Whilst Afridi and Akhtar looked on in horror, Akmal remained expressionless - presumably to busy dwelling on the 6 billion rupees Mohammed Bung would be paying him to worry about the impact on his team mates. Good on him - he looks like a nice lad.

Elsewhere in this oh-so-fascinating tournament, which I gather concludes in June 2019, bad news for England - Stuart "does my short hair make me look less of a shirtie" Broad has another tournament ending injury. Aparently the ECB are scouring the ranks of country cricket for any likely replacement with the name of O'Brien.

At least Broad's looks genuine - unlike KP who is cleary going home with one eye on his IPL contract.

It is, of course, an entirely superfluous event. The only cricketing contest of any significance remaining is the Ashes - every other match played is merely an appetiser for the most crucial of battles. England hold the Ashes, by the way. Not Australia. Again.

It may be that Australia claim this World Cup. Good on them, the old Aussie battlers. In the greater scheme of things it's a bit akin to 4th place in pin the tail on the donkey at a 4 year old birthday party. But some consolation, nonetheless.

But really, who cares? The only real moment of interest so far was when the Barbados Chronicle misleadingly reported that everyone on the West Indies bus was stoned after their game against The Bangles, thus giving the erroneous impression that there are times when Chris Gayle and Suleiman Benn are not stoned.

You know a tournament is too long when it's duration exceeds the average length of a marriage in Birmingham. Playing one or 2 games a day, when you have 605 venues, 400 billion potential attendees (and that's just in India) etc is ludicrous. All in the name of money!