Missing the World Cup

Many of you will know that I am a bit of a cricket fan - well alright, a bit of cricket fanatic really. I am of course going to miss the critical part of the World Cup knock out phase and the finals. This hurts somewhat but you all need to get with me and barrack for England so that they stay in the hunt and I get WC news on the BBC in Europe. Incidentally, I am not exactly holding out great hopes for the Aussies - they are not traveling the best and the captain needs to take a good hard look at himself to quote the Coodabeens. The SAfas, Pakis and Windies look dangerous. It will be fascinating to see how the Windies go against India. I have a suspicion India will let the home pressure situation get to them - also I don't like Dhoni so I refuse to tip them. However, Sachin is showing us that age does not weary all people - he is remarkable.