England suffer humiliation as New Zealand romp to World Cup win | Sport | The Guardian.
Yesterday I went off to the stadium thinking I was about to see a good day of entertainment watching England play the ‘Black Caps’ in the Cricket World Cup.
The day was a good one for watching cricket. Sunny, warm and calm. Wellington looked good in front of the world. We had good tickets and avoided the sun burn risk. However, the day did not pass as expected.
However, the duration of the game was somewhat shorter than expected. England were hammered as they collapsed to 123 all out in 33.2 overs and NZ reached the target in 12.2 overs with McCullum hitting 77 in 25 balls! He was hitting everything into the stands. That was impressive but at the time one thought that the bowlers might make it a bit more difficult for him by not giving him quite so many short balls, reaching him waist high, to hit to the short side boundaries.
It was a awful but unbelievable thing to watch. It is difficult to believe that the England can recover from this experience.
The good aspect to all this is that Mark Wotherspoon is in town as he is the England team doctor. So I managed to meet up with him a couple of times during the week, and hopefully again next week when England return to Wellington to play Sri Lanka after what is expected to be a successful match against Scotland in Christchurch.
Mark working somewhere in the past.
