How much have England changed since 1979?
Writing in his blog, the Old Batsman, Jon Hotten recalls the 1979 World Cup final he watched at Lord's and assesses how much England's approach has changed since then in ODIs
09-Sep-2014
Writing in his blog, the Old Batsman, Jon Hotten recalls the 1979 World Cup final he watched at Lord's and assesses how much England's approach has changed since then in ODIs.
A win in Friday's final match was welcome, but as meaningless as any in the 3,451 ODIs that have followed that long-ago day at Lord's. England's current methodology is from around the mid 2000s of that number; they're still quite excited to score 290, and still quite daunted by the pusuit of it. The rest of cricket, meanwhile, roars on into a future that is being written from the bottom up - through T20 into the 50 over game - rather than the top down.