Nine World Cup players to watch

Being as nothing's really going on other than the odd player getting injured and being as the World Cup's about to start, we thought we'd do a World Cup equivalent of our Ones To Watch feature. Should fill in a day or two at least.

Unfortunately, we wanted to do a fairly reasonable job of this and as a consequence almost all of the nine World Cup players to watch are really predictable. Sorry about that. If we'd picked Peter Fulton and Mushfiqur Rahim we'd have just looked like an idiot though and you'd never listen to anything we said ever again.

Having said that, we just started writing the post for our first entrant and then realised that he wasn't actually one of the ones that we'd selected, so maybe there will be some surprises. We should really start writing things down.

Yuvraj Singh
Justin Kemp
Shahid Afridi
Mike Hussey
Shane Bond
Upul Tharanga
Saqibul Hasan
Chris Gayle
Ian Bell