They say the English are the only people who feel schadenfreude about themselves, and anyone who stuck with English cricket through the 1990s will know there is some truth in that. Back then you had to try to find some small measure of pleasure in their losses, which came around with ritual regularity. There was the rollercoaster thrill of their batting collapses, the dizzy lurch of a sudden but inevitable turn for the worse, and the meditative contemplation of their long and fruitless days in the field, watching the opposition’s score tick, the thought of taking the 10th wicket a kind of cricketing koan, as inconceivable as the sound of one hand clapping. Following England, you learned to be good at losing.
Continue reading...It’s a shame Bangladesh didn’t win because England are so good at losing | Andy Bull
While defeat in Chittagong would have been a chastening experience for Alastair Cook’s side, it would have been a historic moment in Test cricket and one that Bangladesh will surely manage soon