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In Review: Mercurial England continue to bewitch and bewilder

Phil Walker revisits another unpredictable and compulsively watchable summer trying to keep up with England’s men’s teams
Harry Brook England

By Phil Walker

Phil Walker revisits another unpredictable and compulsively watchable summer trying to keep up with England’s men’s teams

When they’re good, they’re very good, and when they miss, they end up in the gutter.
A mass oversimplification, perhaps; but still a fair summary of a summer in which England’s philosophically aligned cricket teams have mixed thrilling passages of play with a tendency to lack ruthlessness at the critical moment.
It’s probably inevitable that any team under the line-pushing overlordship of Brendon McCullum should soar and fall in such fashion.
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