Apparently, his partner rang to speak to him during the Bangladesh game, his phone was answered by the England Manager. She asked to speak to Eion and was told he had just gone into bat, she replied, "That's okay I'll wait"
I must admit I did want the captaincy taken from Cook a lot earlier than it was, but given how Middlesex did under Morgan's limited-over captaincy, I didn't want him having the England job. The man who kept Middlesex in Division 1 of the County Championship was the one regular who didn't play limited-overs cricket, and who won't be playing for Middlesex this year, Chris Rogers. What could Morgan do when the most experienced batsman in the squad has scored only 4 hundreds in 160 ODIs? Why is Bell still being picked for anything other than Tests?
The worry is I don't think the ECB will be that bothered so long as we win the Ashes and do well in the Tests...
About the only other sports they play are Buzkashi and Bandy. Somehow, I can't really see the English playing a game like polo, only using a dead goat instead of a ball.... Although they were World Bandy Champions for 101 years until last year, England never faced Afghanistan in the sport.
So England finish their world cup with a win, against Afghanistan. Meaning no disrespect to the Afghans there really was only going to be one winner of this game, but for England to win with fewer runs on the board and the Duckworth Lewis mechanism is more a triumph in defeat for the Afghans than a win for the Engish players. I will agree that England lost fewer wickets and were set an undemanding total in their weather affected game, but to win with fewer runs on the board is a pretty poor show. A fairer result would have been to call the game a draw, denying the Afghans their chance to sneak a cheeky victory.
So England beat Afghanistan at cricket and I beat Mrs H's 4-year-old grandson at Poohsticks...not often two such memorable victories recorded on the same day...
In cricket you can win with a smaller number of points than theloser, this game is like tennis and chess where you could win 6-4, 0-6, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 or checking the king from a lucky position. Odd.
Only if it rains AK...though a Duckworth/Lewis method for football might be handy for those games where the first half is so dire the crowd would rather go the pub than watch the second
