Published: September 09, 2020
Unlike five years ago, Australia are the ones who now have to move on from a limp World Cup exit
For the longest time, England did not beat Australia at one-day cricket. In the general sense, not the specific. There were matches along the journey that went England’s way, even brief periods of ascendancy. But as a rule, that team did not beat Australia. It was always the exception.
The first one-day international ever played, as a fill-in match in Melbourne in 1971, the home team won. England’s worst losing streak stretched to 14 matches in March 2003. In the first 15 years of the current century, England’s win-loss record read 18-45. That was when everything changed.
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