Cricket World Cup 2011 AUSTRALIA

Forget the Ashes, Australia are a different team in one-day cricket as they demonstrated with their recent 6-1 thrashing of England.

Seeking their fourth successive World Cup but lack of a decent spinner in the absence of the injured Nathan Hauritz might prove their undoing.

Best XI:

Ricky Ponting (captain), Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Michael Clarke, Cameron White, David Hussey, Steve Smith, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Doug Bollinger, Shaun Tait.