A third successive ODI win against Sri Lanka gave England an unassailable 3-1 lead in a five-match series and secured a first series win in Asia - the novices of Bangladesh apart - since Mike Gatting's side beat Pakistan 3-0 in 1987.
One can visualize how the English will go to town about this victory. Suddenly, from no-hoppers, they will become numero uno’s of the ODI’s.
The pity is in order to make something of this achievement; they will necessarily have to put the Sri Lankan team on a pedestal.
Obviously, the English will now start to pontificate like the Australians about Cricket and become as insufferable as them. Surely, Collingwood can look forward to a Knighthood.
2 comments:
In fairness, the Sri Lankan team have shown themselves to be one of the best ODI teams going around recently. England beating them at home is actually a very good achievement. England still have a long way to go to become a consistent team themselves, but they do appear to be improving.
And if Collingwood could get an MBE on the back of 7 not out, surely a peerage is not out of the question for leading England to a series win :)
Stuart,
My intention was not to belittle the Sri Lankans.
Just wanted to highlight Englands attitude.
BTW, your blog is great.
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