Mahendra Dhoni's costly pair

He'll be massive at this World Cup, they said. Short boundaries and slow wickets. He'll be hitting sixes for fun.

It turns out that Mahendra Singh Dhoni's contribution to the World Cup amounts to just 29 runs against Bermuda. In India's two crucial losses, he first got a duck against Bangladesh and then improved on that with a golden duck against Sri Lanka.

On such moments do World Cups hinge. Not that World Cups tend to have moving parts. They usually make them solid so there's less to break.