A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup
Somewhere in our midst, distantly catching our eye every now and then, a cricket World Cup is taking place.
We know Australia is in it because they're on television whenever they play. Afghanistan is one of the other teams. We know that because there they were the other night on television, appearing with Australia. Before that, there was, ahem, New Zealand, and before that there was ... was it England? It seemed important at the time. But that was almost three weeks ago and there has been a bit of football on the TV since, and almost no cricket.
Eyewitnesses and other reliable sources indicate that there are other teams in this World Cup, and some are very good, and have played memorable matches. The trouble is that they have been on pay television.
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Sir Viv cuts Soul album
Viv Richards in vintage form was like a knight with a mace, and he wasn't shy telling you about it.
It has been Twenty-four years since he retired and he's still telling you about it.
I'm a man to catch, I'm a batsman, I'm out here to play, this is nice, let's go.
These are the pearls that Viv melts out poetically in his first foray into songwriting, a collaboration with INXS drummer Jon Farriss released on Wednesday.
