2019, World Cup fever No 1: day of reckoning for England’s four-year plan | Simon Burnton


Much has changed since the debacle of 2015, not least the settling on two spinners who can help control a game

With a home World Cup swiftly followed by a home Ashes series the summer of 2019 has the potential to rival the greatest in the history of the English game and also to be among its most crushing disappointments.

The home side are the favourites to win both competitions and the England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive, Tom Harrison, has declared himself “giddy with excitement” about the “once in a generation opportunity” the coming months represent.

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