“What keeps you up at night is the weather or terror attacks,” a senior member of the Cricket World Cup staff told me a few weeks before the tournament. “Everything has been so well planned. If there are no security issues and the weather is right it should be brilliant.”
When the World Cup has flourished, it has been brilliant. Take the game at Taunton on Wednesday, which was nearly a classic of the 50-over genre; pound for pound the most entertaining of the tournament so far. The problem is, it fell between two days when not a ball was sent down in anger, taking the total to four washouts since Friday.
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