England’s capitulation in Barbados echoed other recent calamities from Trent Bridge to Mirpur but, in an age of multi-format careers, they are not the only fallible ones
Mirpur, 2016, England need 273 to beat Bangladesh. Alastair Cook and his new young opening partner Ben Duckett have been batting for 90 minutes and their hundred partnership has just come up. First ball after tea, Duckett’s done, bowled by a quicker, straighter delivery from the off-spinner Mehidy Hasan. Then Joe Root goes, lbw, and Gary Ballance slaps a long hop to mid-off. Moeen Ali lasts four balls. Then Cook falls, caught at silly point. An hour later, it’s all over, England have lost all 10 wickets for 64 runs in the space of 134 balls. Cook explains later that he thinks the problem was his team didn’t have enough experience in the conditions. “There’s a lot to work on.”
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Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/29/england-barbados-batting-collapses-andy-bull under the title “England master art of falling apart but batting collapses are a global trend | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
