Its been 269 days since I last posted here, probably the longest gap I've ever had on this blog? I have possibly the best three reasons for it though - my lovely wife and 250 day old twin boys :-) Hopefully the gaps in future don't get longer but as I've discovered, parenthood is like the Pakistan team (or at least the Pakistan team of old) - you never know what you will get next. And what an eventful 269 days in the cricketing world it has been! Australia have become the second home team in a row to win a World Cup beating (like India did in 2011) their plucky but smaller island neighbour. Those neighbours under McCullum have built up a tough but adventurous Kiwi team who're in the top four in the ODI rankings and will hopefully continue to go from strength to strength in the Test rankings as well. McCullum and his merry men have even managed to goad England into scoring over 400 in an ODI for the first time and start to actually play one-day cricket for the first