By Richard Edwards
ENGLAND smashed so many records in Nottingham on Tuesday that most newspapers devoted half a page to squeezing them all in.
The headline, of course, was the total of 481 for six, scored at an eye-watering run rate of 9.62. That would have been unthinkable off 60 overs, rather than 50 overs, when the World Cup was first introduced in 1975.
When England and India met in the semi-final of the 1983 World Cup, the two sides mustered 430 runs from 114.4 overs. England managed to pass that combined total halfway through the 44th over in Nottingham.
That’s a full 70 overs q...