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England cricket team during a practice session on Friday at Narendra Modi Stadium ahead of the World Cup match against Australia in Ahmedabad.(Express photo Nirmal Harindran)
‘We have been crap’: Have England hit rock bottom or are they still falling?
Ben Stokes sat speechless for ten seconds. It was relatively a lighthearted icebreaker question: ‘Has there been any happy or funny moment on this tour’. The seconds ticked, before he muttered, “Sorry, I didn’t expect that question”. Five more seconds went before he added with a smile, “Ask me tomorrow again!”
A short while back, on the eve of the clash against Australia, he had summed up the hellish ride that England have endured in this World Cup. “We have been crap … not having an answer and being able to understand as to why it’s gone wrong is very simple. That’s the answer. Because if we knew what had gone wrong, we would have been able to fix it. But unfortunately, we don’t. It’s just been one of those tournaments where, yeah, it’s just been a disaster. And there’s no point sugarcoating it … the problem is that we’ve been crap,” Stokes had said.
It’s been that kind of a tour. A total “crap”. Where even someone like Ben Stokes can’t think of a single happy moment. Watching England play has been a bizarre experience; imagine how the players feel. They just don’t seem to know what has hit them. It’s one thing to be part of a series where the problems are obvious, known, and the slide into the ass can be tough but understandable hell – players generally tend to mentally check out of such tours and look to getting back home. (READ MORE)
