Summer solstice brings bad luck for England
June 21 is the day it goes hilariously wrong for England on the field
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
June 21 is the day it goes hilariously wrong for England on the field. Rob Smyth, in the Observer, chronicles some of England's miseries on that day in the years gone by.
England's performances on 21 June, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, have generally been pitched somewhere between gentle self-deprecation and vile self-loathing – a quintessentially English comedy to sit proudly alongside Fawlty Towers and The Office. England have not played Test cricket on 21 June since 1998. A good job, too, because on that particular day they are pathologically incapable of being anything other than truly, madly, deeply inept.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo