Wouldn’t have made a difference, no one was beating (or getting near to) India on that deck.
This is what everyone was saying in the lead up to the ODI WC final. The great sporting nations overcome these things and perform when it matters.
England is a terrible sporting nation, let’s be honest. Has the advantages of early modernisation, being a first world and comparatively wealthy place with a decent sized population. It even has potable water for its populace.
Yet it consistently produces abject mediocrity. I know the climate is awful and contributes to the pallid pastiness, insipid nature and mean physical inferiority of the citizenry, but they really ought to do better across the sporting spectrum.
Part of the issue, of course, is how happy they are with being middle of the road. So often you hear Poms say “oh well, it was a good effort/ we didn’t expect to win anyway.” That’s what’s wrong with you people.
Notice there’s no “Happy England getting rissoled day” thread? Why? Because it’s expected and happens all the time.
The expectation must always be to win everything in which you compete, as is the case with the world’s greatest sporting nation, Australia. Anything less is unacceptable. For example, our current T20 side will now be purged and a royal commission held into their disgraceful, un-Australian “performance.” You lot will just shrug your shoulders and say “better luck next time.” Such attitudes are a blight on humanity and must be expunged to ensure long term success.
Unless and until England adopts a tougher mindset, they’ll continue to be a sporting speed bump for better nations, meekly celebrating a once per decade/ quarter century success in something and trying to live off it until the next “miracle”, which is simply what your betters consider a par performance, comes along.
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