A CLAIM OF TOP BILLINGS IS OFTEN PERILOUS

PETER HAYTER

When Sam Billings told them and us last week that the rest of the world of cricket is “petrified” of England’s one-day cricketers, it prompted two distinct and conflicting reactions.
First: yes, good on him for talking up his side’s prospects in the build-up to the ICC Champions Trophy.
At last, it seems, England’s white-ball cricketers have broken the psychological shackles of believing themselves inferior to their opponents, a mindset that, while understandable and usually justified, has surely underpinned their failure to lift a single global...

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