England couldn’t even beat Sri Lanka and have by far the worst run rate in the entire tournament, even below Afghanistan and Netherlands. Now, it looks like England fluked their way to the 2019 trophy since they’re playing the exact same way they did before they had a half decent stretch post 2015. On top of that, they only managed to hold the Ashes one time in the last 10 years so it’s hard to take criticism from an English cricket fan too seriously.
I would be more than okay with Pakistan having an England 2023-like World Cup after winning an ODI World Cup and a T20 World Cup over a 4 year period.
But Pakistan doesn’t have the talent or the skill or the mentality to win two World Cups in 4 years and go on the type of run that English cricket did in white ball cricket from 2016-2022.
6-7 year period is a long one in cricket. The current generation of England players achieved everything in the white ball game and this slump was expected because when you have a very successful generation, they all lose their way/retire at the same time and it leads to a transition period.
England did not fluke their way to the World Cup because they were the best white ball team during that 5-6 year stretch and regularly defeated full-strength opposition. They made the T20 World Cup final in 2016 as well and if there was an ODI World Cup every year from 2016 to 2022, they would come very close to winning it every year.
I’m not an England fan because I’m not English. You can’t pick and choose who you support in international sports. However, I have great admiration for England and India because of the way England have gone about their white ball business over the years and they way India play their cricket.
It is extremely rich and extremely funny to see Pakistani fans “show eyes” to England cricket and make condescending statements when Pakistan cannot even dream of embarking on the type of run England did in white ball over the last 5-6 years and Pakistan cannot even dreaming of picking up two World Cups.
So please take England’s name with more respect and worry about the perpetual mediocrity of your talentless and fluke team that not only lacks skill and agility but also lack discipline and accountability.
England cricket hold itself accountable and this is why it picked itself up after 2015 and this why it will pick itself up after 2023 as well. Certain players will have their careers terminated for good in spite of the glory that they have brought in the past.
You can see it on the faces of the England players how upset and disappointed they are. I haven’t seen an England player smiling and laughing in weeks.
This is so because unlike Pakistan, they have heart and desire and they have a winning culture. They take pride in winning and anything short of that isn’t good enough.
In spite of winning 2 World Cups in 4 years, they wanted more and and they are not talking about the 2 World Cups at all because it is in the past.
On the other hand, if Pakistan were to win 2 World Cups in 4 years, you wouldn’t hear the end of it and any subsequent failure would be brushed aside as “but we won 2 World Cups…..”
Even when they are losing, which is basically the time, you will find Pakistani players laughing and cracking jokes because they don’t care. They have no pride and no sense of responsibility and accountability.
They have been hoarding on biryanis, gulab jamun and all the lovely food that is on offer in different Indian cities but not fit for professional athletes especially during a World Cup. Why? Because there is no culture of discipline.
There is no sense of responsibility and fans like yourself are to be blamed as well because you keep making excuses for the team and try to divert the attention by claiming that oh well, England has done worse than Pakistan so it is fine.
Well, firstly, stop looking at others because that won’t make you better and secondly, England’s current generation of white ball players - as explained above - has achieved stuff beyond the dreams and capabilities of Pakistan so all this trash-talk looks very idiotic.
I saw a video on the PCB social media yesterday where the conman Mickey was back with that third class tiny impact award or whatever that he has picked up for 100 Rs. from a gift shop in a hotel.
We didn’t see it for weeks and we hoped to not see again but this is the comedy culture that he is instilling in the team where all is well and dandy after one win against a terrible team after 4 consecutive defeats that has put Pakistan on the brink of elimination.
He can be counter-productive. There was complaint about him deliberately under-performing against England and NZ in semi final. Besides the way he sets fields, controls the bowlers about where to bowl is something that you can't see with Kohli. Kohli is a much better test captain. His aggression suits him. In LOIs you have to be street smart.
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knock against Pakistan in 2022 wc but he was medicore and played a match losing innings against England, he could have taken his side to 200, but 42 of 50 wasn't good enough. In 2021 kohli had regressed to stat padding and quot captaincy because it was clearly affecting his batting.
