Should Australia ever host the cricket world cup?
Well done to the Aussie cricketers, they’ve won the world cup at home! An ACB strategy has come to fruition – we should all be glad. But the question is, was the world cup a great spectacle, like it usually is? Certainly the new rules made the batting spectacular with heaps of runs and sixes being scored and then there were the tense moments and games such as the noble Black caps win over the crass (let’s have another drink) Aussies and the 20 minutes of torcher dished out by the Pakistani fast bowlers at Watson (if only they could field and catch the sitters!). The magical four centuries in a row by Sanga and the brilliant scores by AB, Gale and Guptil. It certainly had it’s fair share of cricketing excellence on the field. But apart from the TV watchers, did anyone realise that the world cup was going on in Australia. There’s never been such a boring place to have a world cup than Australia. If not for the Sri Lankans and to some extent the Indians, it would have been such a flop. ...