I completely understand your irritation. In my opinion taking away league points is not an appropriate penalty, but we can agree to disagree on that. I really don't think you can honestly say that I am 'defending' England! "Unacceptable" "turgid" and "disrespectful" are not usually words used in defence of a team... :)
Glad to see acknowledgement that Australia and India (who have had a similar number of games as England in each WTC cycle) are consistently in the final or have been in the shouts of making it in while England haven't been remotely close. Feels like the schedule isn't actually against them and their absence in the WTC finals has been more of a reflection of their quality...
England know the rules and continue to break them . Absolutely no sympathy. Also not the other nations problem if they don't care about the wtc.
You are defending them way too often lately.
Englands issue off their own making is their problem. Doesn't discredit the competition in anyone but big 3 eyes...
Also most teenagers learn from their mistakes eventually. How many times have England been pinned for over rates and still not learned.
The only acceptably harsh enough pens are wtc points or runs. Anything else is a joke.
Hi Stefan,
I completely understand your irritation. In my opinion taking away league points is not an appropriate penalty, but we can agree to disagree on that. I really don't think you can honestly say that I am 'defending' England! "Unacceptable" "turgid" and "disrespectful" are not usually words used in defence of a team... :)
Glad to see acknowledgement that Australia and India (who have had a similar number of games as England in each WTC cycle) are consistently in the final or have been in the shouts of making it in while England haven't been remotely close. Feels like the schedule isn't actually against them and their absence in the WTC finals has been more of a reflection of their quality...