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After 1999 debacle,Cup finds redemption song

by
The Cricket Paper Team
10 May 2019

Adam Collins discovers, with some relief, that the 2019 World Cup anthem is nothing like 1999’s monumental disaster

Adam Collins

Fireworks and a damp squib: The 1999 opening ceremony gets smoky at Lord’s while the video of the tournament anthem gets spooky, inset

In election campaigns, the days that break your heart are when the oxygen is drained by everything other than your message for voters – doubly so when this is the product of an own goal. It’s for this reason that the launch of the Cricket World Cup anthem this week, oddly, had a fair bit riding on i...