There were moments on Sunday when you suspected that old Mr Sod had arrived at this Cricket World Cup and was about to start laying down his law.
Walloped from pillar to post over the course of a nightmarish three weeks and dangled torturously over the precipice of elimination without the mercy of a bungee-less plunge, England appeared to have turned up, and not merely in the literal sense, which had been just about the only achievement of their previous three matches.
