Being the only country in top eight test teams, apart from New Zealand, to have never won the Cricket World Cup, England will come with big hopes. Their pace attack is believed to among the best in the world by many. Not only do they have good batsmen but also Graeme Swann, who is among world’s best spinner. They would like to do what they managed at the last T20 World Cup in 2009.
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Here comes India’s first competitive match of the tournament, and it’s against a team that was saying a lot of things before they got whipped by Australia. England still doesn’t know what its strongest side is, and what their order should be, and maybe that’s preventing them from being as good as they’re capable of being. The Castrol Index doesn’t rate England...
England’s side of the ratings, which were a lot easier to do. If only I could rate them by the quality of their tweets.
9.5 - Stuart Broad (182 runs @60.66 and 25 wickets @13.84): Close to being dropped. Fuller lengths. Vital lower-order runs. Near-perfect series. Next Botham. Yawn, you know the whole story because everyone’s already harped about it. It’s a fairy tale all right...
So, less than 3 months to go and if I was prone to worry (rather than immune to it by now) the number of unresolved issues in the England camp might just be setting me off.
Much of the selection debate over here has centered around Michael Vaughan returning as an opener or number 3. I’m not sure about it, especially as many people seem to want him in the team irrespective of club form. That...
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