Shocking England performance

This will be a bit of a weird post for some of you today but it’s time for our American friends to come to appreciate a little about the noble game of cricket. The reason I’m writing is because I’m furious about a completely shocking, abject and utterly disgraceful England performance against the West Indies this afternoon.

For those that don’t know anything about the game, this was the equivalent of a 100-0 thashing at American Football or basketball or even a 15-0 goal thrashing at soccer. All this from so called professionals…and what makes it worse, the West Indies are pretty much the worst recognised international team out there…save for perhaps Bangladesh!

Sure the WIndies used to be a formidable force in the 70’s and 80’s but this team is a shadow of it’s former glory and the way they disposed of England today was unbelievable. Going back a few years the Windies had a fantastic team and every Englishman amongst us always believed they could steam roller over us. They often did, once famously “black washing us” and bowling us out for 46…but this, this was something else.

It’s hard to believe that the nucleus of this English team was the same one that had beaten the all conquering Aussies in the Summer of 2005 but that seems light years away now. England go to Barbados next and let’s just hope they put on a better performance for the thousands of supporters following them out there from the snowy UK. After that, we have the Aussies again…and who knows what they’ll be capable of doing to us.  Shocking.

Anyway, this blog always trys to educate and inform so I thought I’d try and teach you the rules of cricket. Here they are:

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