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Veterans’ familiar early exit

JOHANNESBURG: England, pioneer of Twenty20 cricket, made a familiar early exit from the inaugural World Twnty20 after failing to beat a major team and making headlines once again for all the wrong reasons.

Skipper Collingwood, fined for a late-night visit to a lap-dancing club, was forced to acknowledge his team was off the pace after it went down to a defeat at the hands of India in Durban — its fourth straight loss against the Test- playing nations.

England’s campaign was highlighted by a tactical naivety that belied the fact it has been playing the slam-bang form of the game for longer than any other team. Potential match-winning situations were squandered in all the games, particularly against New Zealand where England lost three wickets in the space of five balls while seemingly cruising to win. Naivety also shone through in its defeat to India when Stuart Broad was slapped for six sixes in the penultimate over by Yuvraj Singh, the youngster clearly shell-shocked by the experience.

Its South African flop carried clear echoes of its disappointing performance in the 50-over World Cup earlier this year when it failed to beat any other major side apart from the West Indians. — AFP

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