England skipper Eoin Morgan will feel slightly uneasy with the position he finds himself in. After a stupendous March night when his team stalked the tournament favourites, he is at the cusp of winning England’s second-ever global tournament. Few of his limited-overs predecessors – save Paul Collingwood – were afforded this liberty of a smile, let alone any celebratory excesses. They have been riled and grilled by the truculent media, parodied and ridiculed by their supporters.
For such has been England’s well-storied propensity to not attune themselves to the demands and dynamics of the modern white-ball beast. They were still the archaic roundheads in a furiously radical world. They were aware of the changes, but reluctant to mend their ways, a sort of stubborn ineptness. (STATS || POINTS TABLE || FIXTURES)
Suddenly Morgan find himself in a whirl of emotions his more gifted, or even tactically shrewder, ex-captains couldn’t even imagine, let alone live through.
England have out-thought and outlasted the team that was considered comprising the sharpest of thinkers and the smartest of executioners. Surely, New Zealand had taken adaptability to a different pedestal in this tournament, but England by their sheer willfulness, that atypical English trait, upended them.
For such has been England’s well-storied propensity to not attune themselves to the demands and dynamics of the modern white-ball beast. They were still the archaic roundheads in a furiously radical world. They were aware of the changes, but reluctant to mend their ways, a sort of stubborn ineptness. (STATS || POINTS TABLE || FIXTURES)
Suddenly Morgan find himself in a whirl of emotions his more gifted, or even tactically shrewder, ex-captains couldn’t even imagine, let alone live through.
England have out-thought and outlasted the team that was considered comprising the sharpest of thinkers and the smartest of executioners. Surely, New Zealand had taken adaptability to a different pedestal in this tournament, but England by their sheer willfulness, that atypical English trait, upended them.
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