TWENTY FIVE YEARS ON, IT REMAINS THE BEST WE’VE HAD

DEREK PRINGLE
With Andrew Strauss already triggering plans for England’s 2019 World Cup campaign with his recent series of North versus South matches in the UAE, it might interest him to know that England’s strategy for the 1992 World Cup came together just days before the tournament began.
Obviously the squad was mostly picked when a pre-campaign tour of New Zealand was organised, though that trip included three Tests as well as three one-day internationals to get our eye in.
That preparation proved crucia...