England in the semis, seriously?
Two 'shocking' wins against tournament favourites and England are suddenly the anti-thesis of the one-day team we are so accustomed to seeing
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Two 'shocking' wins against tournament favourites and England are suddenly the anti-thesis of the one-day team we are so accustomed to seeing. Something, somewhere, is deeply wrong, which is why Mike Norrish of the Telegraph thinks its time to scrap the Champions Trophy.
Bonkers. There’s no other word for it. Dynamite in the middle overs, brilliant in the field. Sri Lanka thrashed; South Africa too. In the semis with a game to spare. Bonkers. (And, I imagine, more than a little annoying if you paid £70 to watch them against Australia; a series that became a fortnight-long party political broadcast for the Scrap ODIs Coaltion.)
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo