Sambit Bal sums up the disastrous Cricket World Cup.
Even at the end, they couldn't get it right and the event ended in farce, with the teams playing out the last three overs in pitch dark. Not to take anything away from the Aussies, who apart from Scotland, were hardly challenged throughout the tournament. OK, I was talking about in the bar after the game. Got to take those moral victories.
Not a very good advert for a sport that is looking to expand.
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It's funny, two days ago I was on the bus and sitting behind me were two teenage girls one of whom was going on at length about how "cricket is, like, the greatest sport in the world, yeah? You have to watch it, yeah?" It made me think that there was maybe some hope for what I still believe is the greatest sport in the world. Then the World Cup managed to produce yet another cock-up and I began to think how much better they run football. This whole tournament has been a nightmare: week after turgid week with only a couple of really good games (both, weirdly, involving Englnnd). Can we all pretend it didn't happen? (And while we're at it, can we forget everything that's happened in the cricket world since The Ashes 2005 as well?)
It's a deal.
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