WORLD CUP ARCHIVES

Paul Edwards recalls a tournament in which England were humiliated and when all the drama proceeded a damp squib of a Lord’s final
There are honourable defeats, unfortunate defeats and then ignominious defeats. The manner by which England’s interest in the cricket World Cup ended yesterday rests, unfortunately, in the final category.
Thus thundered The Times leader page almost 20 years ago. Other commentators were not as gentle: “Let’s get things fully in proportion,” insisted John Etheridge in The Sun, “this was only the most catast...