Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
England are like one of the top Premier League teams - massively hyped at home, but they do bugger all when the major competition gets serious. To be fair, they can look a very impressive team in both versions of the one day game when the force is with them, but, more than forty years after the first world competition for the longer version, they still haven't won a major tournament at that level, while in five day cricket they have been just a middling win one, lose one type of side for years now - in fact, they've got worse than that recently.