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What we loved, gasped at, and were disappointed by in the World Cup
Our writers and reporters pick their most memorable moments of a manic World Cup What did you most enjoy? George Dobell: The spirit. Cricket has become a little more gentle, a little more decent, a little nicer since the last World Cup. It was demonstrated in the gracious manner in which New Zealand reacted to …
A World Cup dominated by left-arm seamers and No. 3 batsmen
The run-rate dipGiven how ODI run rates had soared in England in the four years leading up to this World Cup 2019 – it was 6.07 in the period between the last two World Cups – people generally assumed that the scoring rate in this edition would leave behind previous ones by some distance. Well, …