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...