ArchiveMarch 1, 2015

Your reactions, please, to England’s latest larruping, this time by nine wickets, at the hands of Sri Lanka. Or to be more specific, at the hands of Kumar Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne. England’s reaction to setting a target of 310 was telling. To my eye, the smiles among the squad, as Buttler and Woakes walked off, suggested a kind of job-done satisfaction. 309-6 was a very respectable total, but not a match-winning one. England still seem to think they’re living in the...