It’s crunch time now in the World Cup and we have to have our A game ready at all times and come out firing, starting against the West Indies in Grenada.

The defeat against Bangladesh was a hammer blow for us and we were shattered by that result. But credit to them because they batted really well and I think that was where the game was won. We allowed them to score a few more runs than they should have but they batted really well..

That game has gone now and we will stay positive and back ourelves to win our final three matches. I still think we are looking good for a berth in the semi-finals but we realise the games coming up against West Indies, New Zealand and England are huge matches. We want to win every one of them and will be going all out to do that.

I think West Indies will go out there with a nothing-to-lose sort of attitude and try to apply all the pressure back on to us. We need to play to our potential and get the basics right, which we didn’t do against Bangladesh.

As for my calf injury, the physio has been working on it but I don’t feel as though it’s that serious. I am hopeful of playing Tuesday but I will be led by the physio and team management.

In terms of what else I have been up to at the World Cup, there was the little matter of my six sixes against Holland. It was interesting because a message came on to the field an over or two before I hit the sixes just to say that we should get on with it.

My first ten balls were quite slow and I thought well Jacques is in so I might as well go hammer and tongs. I hit the first three sixes and thought I might as well keep going with it here and if I get out so be it. After the fourth six I was smiling to myself inside and I was thinking if you hit the next one you’re in with a shout here. I decided to stay in my crease to see where he was going to land the ball because if I charged him he could have slipped it wide. I knew I was going to have a go wherever he landed it.

When I hit the sixth one I didn’t bother looking at the scoreboard or the reaction of the guys at all, though I know they were clapping and were all quite chuffed for me. I didn’t know what to do and stood there laughing thinking ‘cool’. I didn’t have to raise my bat because it wasn’t a 50 so what do you do?

When I came off Jonty said he had read somewhere that there is $1 million up for grabs to whoever hits six sixes. Everyone started to stay ‘S***, he’s just won $1 million.' I said I would only believe it when I see the cheque in front of me. Gordon (our media manager) checked it out and discovered it was $1 million for charity. For a minute I thought I was a million dollars richer!

I was there at the handing over and I was taken aback at the amount of people there. I asked the guy from Johnnie Walker, who were donating the money, that if Habitat for Humanity in South Africa could benefit in some way that would be great. I don’t know if it will.

At that ceremony Sir Garfield Sobers was there and he was generous enough to tell me that my feat was better than his because it was in an international match. That was quite a nice gesture.

I swapped shirts with the bowler Daan van Bunge. He wrote on the shirt he gave to me ‘They were only small sixes’. I wrote ‘Thanks for your generosity’ on the one I gave him!

In terms of the tournament generally, I’m feeling good. I came here with high expectations of myself. It would obviously have been nice to have finished the game against Sri Lanka. We took our foot off the gas a little then.

I feel that some great things are around the corner. Graeme and Jacques are in great nick and I think AB will turn his form around soon and get a hundred or maybe an 80 or 70. It’s crunch time and we know we have to deliver.     

A fair bit was made of our cabin fever in Guyana and although there wasn’t much to do I was happy to relax and enjoy the quietness. I enjoy a bit of quiet time.

One frustration, though, was not been able to get the US Masters on the TV at our hotel. I love my golf and I’d actually love to play Augusta one day. Barry Richards told me he went there to watch and the place is fantastic. Maybe Ernie (Els) will arrange it for me one day, if I’m lucky, though I’d settle for a round at Wentworth!