The cricket!
Aah, the cricket. That was good, wasn’t it? I’ll confess, after the first loss to Australia, I wrote a forlorn load of words about all the small details which meant this four-year project had been blown at the final hurdle. I am very much he of little faith. I remained so to the very end – moaning to myself about the little things that I thought should be different … I thought Stokes was batting too slowly, I thought Rashid should have gone in above Archer, I thought Stokes shouldn’t bat the super over, I thought Archer shouldn’t bowl the super over, I thought Roy shouldn’t have been at deep midwicket, I thought Archer should have bowled more short balls in the super over, I thought, I thought, I thought … and who cares … Though, maybe, even though I was wrong, I was a bit right. You know, it’s funny to think if Stokes had been caught on the boundary by Boult/Guptill, as he really should have been, his innings would be looked at as a fatally flawed contribution, a Dhoni-l