That’s it from us. Thanks for your company, correspondence and gallows humour in the face of an England obliteration. How are the mighty fallen... but they’ll be back. They only got just over half a warm-up game, whereas New Zealand had two full ones and used them well – sticking Rachin Ravindra in as an opener against Pakistan and seeing him score 97.
For now, all we can do is congratulate Ravindra and Devon Conway on putting together one of the all-time great partnerships, on their World Cup debuts, and also give a nod to Matt Henry, Mitchell Santner, and Tom Latham for handling them and the other bowlers so well. The World Cup continues tomorrow with Pakistan taking on the Netherlands in Hyderabad.
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“Fantastic performance,” says Tom Latham. “Fantastic partnership… but before that the bowlers did a fantastic job. They [England] were about 160 at 30 overs, so to restrict them to 280 was” – you’ve guessed it – “fantastic.”
Still, no need to bring the thesaurus with you when you’ve won that easily.
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