World Cup Cocktail

Streakers, pitch invaders and object-tossers will be punished severely if they try to disrupt remaining World Cup cricket matches, police warned today.

Superintendent Sandra Manderson said spectators have overwhelmingly been well-behaved but police would not let misbehaviour embarrass New Zealand at upcoming matches in Wellington and Auckland.

Pitch invasions were common and tolerated in the 1990s. Exuberant New Zealand fans famously ran onto Auckland's Eden Park outfield when Black Caps captain Martin Crowe scored a century against arch-rivals Australia in the 1992 cup.

But in 2007, the Major Events Management Act was introduced to quash pitch invasions, ticket scalping and other activities authorities deemed undesirable at big sporting occasions.

This year, one person had already been fined $1500 fine for entering the field of play at Christchurch's Hagley Oval during the tournament's opening match.

Four spectators have been arrested and charged for breaching the Act by entering, or trying to enter, the field of play during matches.

The maximum penalty for breaching the Major Events Management Act was a $5000 fine and up to three months in jail.

Versatile Maxwell

Maxwell, 26, proved the banana peel when it mattered in Pakistan's disappointing innings (213) in the cut-throat quarter-final against Australia at Adelaide Oval.

Maxwell (2-46) contributed the key scalps of Misbah-ul-Haq (34) and Umar Akmal (20) that triggered a collapse of 7-98. Maxwell's awesome, inventive strokeplay is coveted by selectors to demoralise rival attacks. Yet the Big Show's off-spin could be just as important.

There has been pressure for Maxwell to deliver in a frontline spin role with selectors reluctant to field Xavier Doherty this tournament. Left-arm tweaker Doherty conceded 0-60 against Sri Lanka in his only start at the SCG.

ICC's wiki edited by upset fans

The ICC has been going through a bit of a scandal after the controversial decisions in the Bangladesh-India match, with the president of the ICC, Mustafa Kamal, himself saying that the decisions were unacceptable.

The Bangladeshi fans took to the streets and protested on social media, backed by fans from many other nations, but now someone has gone a step further and edited the ICC's Wikipedia page.

"The Indian Chor (Cheat) Council (ICC) is the governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Indian Cheating Conference in 2014, before adopting the current name," begins the edited entry, before laying into it's 'Income' sub-section.

"The ICC's major earnings are from money taken from the Board of Control of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for match-fixing and to sway umpires decisions in their team's favour."

The final edits were made to the 'Rules and Regulations' section and read, " The Indian Cheating Council overlooks bowling reviews and unfavourable decisions against India, while also giving dubious no ball calls to favour the BCCI."

The edited entries were shortly deleted after being posted on the site.

--Compiled