Cricket may be ‘coming home’ but we hit rock bottom last time it was here…

Peter Hayter applauds the growing confidence within the England camp but also offers some cautionary memories from 20 years ago

Sitting pretty: Captain Eoin Morgan, wearing England’s new World Cup kit, is in upbeat mood
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Twenty years of hurt have come and gone and, along with the triumphs, there have been quite a few disasters in between, but for sheer stomach-churning horror, nothing, not even their catastrophic performance in the last tournament Down Under, has engendered the feelings that England supporters suffered the last time a World Cup was hosted...

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