Christ on a unicycle, that was the sort of match which makes you want to go out and kick babies.
I fully expected a summer of England being laughed at.
I didn’t expect it to start here.
It doesn’t seem to matter who is in charge of the England team, the same kind of spongiform brain disease seems to afflict them as soon as any tournament starts. Which is why England went into this game with a rookie leg spinner in place of the leading Test wicket taker of 2009 and left the four middle order batsmen who can actually hit the ball more than 22 yards on the bench.
Oh, and then they went out and fielded like 9 year olds from the School for the Terminally Malco-ordinated.
The end result is not just the embarrassment of losing to the Dutch, but the fact that they could be out of their own tournament by Sunday. Which would be something of a record in any sport.
It’s enough to make you stew kittens, it really is.
More importantly for you Jrod it leads Dirk Nannes 1 step closer to his dream of playing a match against Australia!
Q’s last blog post..The Dutch Have the World Jittering!
wait.. u actually did not want a leg spinner, but a martian in the eng squad?
You’re lucky to have watched it. I was at Sabina Park when Ireland beat Pakistan, but this was something else. They chased like pros.
Dileep’s last blog post..Boring, boring…
England played cricket without balls
The Tooting Trumpet’s last blog post..Dutch courage wins out over clogged up England
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The future’s bright. The future’s orange!!
The Dutch were awesome yesterday. The way they chased will shame some of the Test playing nations. Their enthusiasm was also great to watch.