Streetly_Bear wrote:

I wonder if in the aftermath of this campaign a certain Mr Hain will get a call up for a run in the 50 over side?

When names are bandied around his does still often seem to get missed out. The central contracts situation probably hasn’t helped with that.

It would appear not. Squads for the West Indies mini-tour announced now and, despite looking rather light on batting, there is no room for one of the world's leading List A players.

A thought on the actual World Cup competition, the geographical spread of the countries involve was overly biased in favour of one region of the world. surely the time has come to have regional based qualifying, so that all continents are included. It is wrong that Africa only had one country involved and the was no representation for the American continent.

In the end an easy chase for the Aussies who outplayed the in-form side of the tournament. 120,000 disappointed fans in the stadium but a poor show not to clap as the Aussies go up to collect their winners medals.