England 'Dutch' for cover!
June 6th 2009 07:33
Now that is what I call a Pommie-bashing! All you Australian cricket fans would undoubtedly be rubbing your hands in glee at the defeat of England at the hands of minnows, Holland. And it is not so much the defeat, but the reasons for the same that will rankle most English fans following the sport.
For starters, it was very evident that England had gone into the game without much thought and but large dollops of complacency. Someone once said that you may think that you have had it by the scuff of it's neck, but cricket will go on to bite you in the bum. England, on their part, did not even had had a hold on it, and they thought that they had won the encounter before entering the playing arena; the Dutch had after all lost almost all their games during the warm-up!
And why on earth was Graeme Swann not played will remain as big a mystery as the Bermuda triangle itself. Instead, one had a greenhorn in Adil Rashid, who had bowl with a wet ball and try and control the run flow in the middle overs.
Kevin Pietersen was sidelined due to a minor injury because of the importance - or the lack of it anyways according to England - of the game, and in the end, it all boiled down to smash the English hopes.
The problem, I think, with the English cricket is that according to most of them, Ashes is the only series or tournament that there is to win; so the planning for the same begins the day one Ashes ends and yet, England has won just one such series in more than 22 years!
Way to go Holland!
For starters, it was very evident that England had gone into the game without much thought and but large dollops of complacency. Someone once said that you may think that you have had it by the scuff of it's neck, but cricket will go on to bite you in the bum. England, on their part, did not even had had a hold on it, and they thought that they had won the encounter before entering the playing arena; the Dutch had after all lost almost all their games during the warm-up!
And why on earth was Graeme Swann not played will remain as big a mystery as the Bermuda triangle itself. Instead, one had a greenhorn in Adil Rashid, who had bowl with a wet ball and try and control the run flow in the middle overs.
Kevin Pietersen was sidelined due to a minor injury because of the importance - or the lack of it anyways according to England - of the game, and in the end, it all boiled down to smash the English hopes.
The problem, I think, with the English cricket is that according to most of them, Ashes is the only series or tournament that there is to win; so the planning for the same begins the day one Ashes ends and yet, England has won just one such series in more than 22 years!
Way to go Holland!
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