World Cup Blogs: Are too many runs being scored?

A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup

It is enough to make bowlers pack up their boots and take the first flight home.

Predict your FOUR World Cup semi-finalists

If it's not Chris Gayle heaving over the leg side, it's Brendon McCullum charging down the  pitch and flat-batting through the covers. If it's not Kumar Sangakkara torturing fielders  like a sadistic surgeon, it's AB de Villiers sweeping fast bowlers for six - with one hand.

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Celebrating Sarfraz's success in a small corner of Uttar Pradesh

There were a few individuals who were also left with the ignominy of eating their own words as  Pakistan wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed punched the air and raised his bat to acknowledge the  crowd after scoring his maiden ODI ton in a must-win game against Ireland on Sunday.

Largely, though, there was joy. It even reached a small corner of Uttar Pradesh, India, where one man  was busy distributing sweets and frantically answering phone calls.

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He who chokes last holds the trophy highest

Glenn Maxwell put one hand to his throat, then the other, teasing the Eden Park crowd who were  choking nearly as much as the players.

World Cup Diary: Joke is on Maxwell after the 'choke'

Grown men and women hid their face in their hands, unable to watch the Aussie cybermen advancing on the New Zealand time lords. Seven more
episodes of the Cricket World Cup to go and you just know, that someone, somewhere, is going to be remembered as the most uncomfortable bloke on the planet.

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