Some English lessons that India can learn

The Indian cricket fraternity never gives up on the opportunity to take a jibe at England for the way they won the 2019 ODI World Cup at home.

- Dwaipayan Datta

It wasn’t Ben Stokes’ fault that the throw in the last over went to the fence after hitting his bat and it wasn’t the ECB that had formulated the rule that a champion would be decided by the number of boundaries hit if it’s a tie after the Super Over.

In the process of undermining the English success, what we constantly miss is the incredible progress that the team has made in white-ball cricket since their early exit from the 2015 ODI World Cup.

Since then, in global white-ball events that have happened, England have been outstanding, to say the least. They lost the 2016 T20 World Cup final, but won the 2019 ODI World Cup. In last year’s T20 World Cup, they lost the semifinal narrowly to New Zealand, and now Jos Buttler’s boys have smashed the subcontinental fantasy of an India-Pakistan final.