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Article: World Cup: Minnows brace for their alternative World Cup

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Dateline: DURBAN, South Africa Welcome to the alternative World Cup.

While cricket superpowers such as Australia, South Africa and West Indies chase the big prize, this is a sideshow within the showpiece limited-over competition where the second-rung cricket-playing countries will test each other.

The match at Kingsmead on Tuesday will pit Canada, the bottom-ranked team in the 14-nation competition, against Bangladesh, the newest entrant into test cricket.

Bangladesh results have proved that enthusiasm alone cannot suffice in top-notch competition.

If enthusiasm were enough, it would be among the front-runners for the World Cup, such is the passion the game in the ...

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