So England got off the mark. Hardly a quick start, more of an apologetic shuffle. They certainly didn’t swat away Scotland with ease, they laboured through the contest and a more ruthless side would have punished them for their inadequacies. Perhaps Scotland should just be happy to be at the World Cup. Perhaps that is…
It’s time for England to turn up. This stumbling about in the group stages, only to spring a surprise in the knockout stages is a great plan. So devious that nobody has yet figured it out. But this master plan of peaking at the opportune moment, of course relies on England actually being able to…
‘Never mind Lucy Beale, who the hell killed English cricket’ Writer and Comedian Dan Schneider Last night, I settled down to watch Eastenders. I want you to understand this is not something I do often, In fact, I can proudly say that I haven’t seen a full episode in about 5 years. Yet through a…
In the style of those hideous blindingly obvious ‘Winning Objectives’ that World Cup broadcasters keep showing us, I thought i’d try and offer a few more useful pointers as to where success lies for England tonight. Firstly, and most obviously, they have to arrest their terrible decline in death bowling. Clueless would be the kind…
With the World Cup now a full five days old, and 13 of the 14 teams now having opened their tournaments, I thought I’d take a little look at a few things we learnt from these opening matches and what, if anything, they can tell us about the course this World Cup is going to…
Today’s offering at the cricket World Cup comes in the form of a potentially pivotal pool match between Bangladesh and Afghanistan. While on the surface, it may appear that there is little riding on this match between two of the tournament’s less fancied sides, if either side has ambitions of progressing to the knockout stages…
As Ireland cruised in their chase of 305 to beat the West Indies in Nelson yesterday, I wasn’t in the least bit surprised. And judging by the tweets and comments I was seeing from other viewers, not many people were. Herein lies the conundrum of the Cricket World Cup and cricket at large. Although the…
The 2015 Cricket World Cup is now two days old, and a full four games have been played. While they’re have been some dazzling individual performances and no shortage of drama or atmosphere, one element has been missing. In fact, it is the main factor that can make a global tournament so exciting. Thus far…
Where to begin then? Woakes’ costly drop? Finch’s brilliance? England’s inability to bowl a yorker? The fearsome Mitchell Marsh? Taylor being cruelly denied a century by an umpiring error? While the opening match between Australia and England was over as a contest after just 70 overs, the game was certainly not short of talking points.…
Jack Vittles 