On Saturday England’s World Cup campaign finally comes to an end. While the team has not had many answers over the past five weeks in India it is now time that the really important questions can be asked: where does their 50-over team go from here and who should be leading them?
Last week Mark Nicholas took over as the MCC president with the assertion that “we believe strongly that ODIs should be World Cups only”, and though Twenty20s seem to be taking over the world I strongly disagree. I am lucky to have seen many great World Cups, and within them many wonderful individual performances, and it is familiarity with the format and its tactics that freed players to excel in those tournaments. If there are no bilateral series it would put that in real jeopardy.
