NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Silencing Kieron Pollard will be winning half the battle when England, the architects of their own predicament, take on West Indies today’s must-win World Cup Group B match in Chennai.
The team that contributed much of the drama to bring alive the showpiece tournament are now staring at a premature exit, paying the price for showing the kind of spectacular inconsistency that Pakistan were notorious for in the past.
Andrew Strauss’s men flirted with danger, tying their match with India and falling victims of giant-killing acts by Ireland and Bangladesh to find that they