The tournament may have been pretty crap so far, but like British politics in 1997, or D:Ream’s career following the original release of U R The Best Thing stalling at 72 in the charts, things can only get better.
Group B: the very definition of second album syndrome, with a distinct lack of top drawer sides. We’re more excited about Australia vs. Ireland than any other game in the first round though.
Never before has an Unlikely Lad been from the cricketing hotbed that is Denmark. It truly is an international feature nowadays.
With two Test series set to run concurrently on opposite sides of the world, we know which one we would rather be attending. We have a look at the West Indian and New Zealand camps and see what we can expect over the next month.
Alex Hales has the sort of name that headline writers love. Luckily for them, he made some runs as well, as England made their highest ever successful T20I chase to wrap up a comprehensive beating of the West Indies.
With the country in the grip of T20 fever, England take on the West Indies in a one-off game that is definitely the most important sporting event of the day.
It started on a sombre note and ended with everyone desperate to escape the mind-numbing tedium of a Jonathan Trott one day innings. England wrapped up the series on an emotional day at the Oval.
The crowd came out in numbers to see one of the great limited overs openers bashing the ball to all parts. And that’s exactly what they got.
And so begins a one-day jamboree. Strap in.
Either Tino Best really did almost score a century or we have some seriously weird dreams after a night on the gin.