Post by stewart on Jun 5, 2009 22:19:33 GMT
As far as I am concerned, having played cricket at quite a high level between 1962 and 1995, these 20/20 matches are nothing more than an exercise in blind slogging, an ugly version of an otherwise beautiful game.
And yet, having witnessed today's opening match in the Blind and Ugly Slogging World Cup, I have to say that this has been one of the most disgraceful and humiliating performances by an England team in its entire history of playing sport of any kind.
I would say, in fact, that it ranks right up there with the 1950 World Cup disgrace when England lost 1-0 to the United States.
The difference between this form of "cricket" and Test Matches is rather like comparing a Derby winner to a selling plater at Fontwell, and yet if England display the same kind of naive and inept approach to the forthcoming Ashes series, it can only end in another 0-5 whitewash.
We have been beaten by Holland in a cricket match, for God's sake !! Have we ever sunk to a lower pitch than that ?!!!!!!
And yet, having witnessed today's opening match in the Blind and Ugly Slogging World Cup, I have to say that this has been one of the most disgraceful and humiliating performances by an England team in its entire history of playing sport of any kind.
I would say, in fact, that it ranks right up there with the 1950 World Cup disgrace when England lost 1-0 to the United States.
The difference between this form of "cricket" and Test Matches is rather like comparing a Derby winner to a selling plater at Fontwell, and yet if England display the same kind of naive and inept approach to the forthcoming Ashes series, it can only end in another 0-5 whitewash.
We have been beaten by Holland in a cricket match, for God's sake !! Have we ever sunk to a lower pitch than that ?!!!!!!