Australians, you sense, have not quite caught the World Twenty20 bug. The word on the street is that the tournament is an irrelevance - easy to say when you've won every tournament going. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Roebuck underlines the prevailing attitudes Down Under.

Anything less suited to solemnity than the sight of highly skilled cricketers whacking a ball about for 20 overs it is hard to imagine. Blink and it will be over. It is as far from Test cricket as were the antics of Ken Dodd from the grave pronunciations of Sir Laurence Olivier. Mr Dodd was a Liverpudlian comedian who took to the stage carrying a featherduster and with hair erupting from his scalp. When his thoughts turned to song he was generally accompanied by The Diddymen. Sir Laurence was otherwise inclined.