England Pprehistoric at World Cup - Collingwood
"It was obviously pretty prehistoric in terms of the way they went about things. You could see that in the results they got." Paul Collingwood's verdict on England's performance in the World Cup might just be the most apt epitaph yet.Collingwood, who was coaching Scotland during the World Cup, remains the only Englishman to lift a global limited overs trophy: the 2010 World T20 in the Caribbean.
"We've always played catch-up in the one-day form of the game," he said, though he believes England have been handicapped by conditions that render attacking the new ball far harder than in other parts of the world. "Whenever we tried it in English conditions, it never quite worked because of the seam movement and all this business. We kind of get halfway and then always resort back to the more conservative plan. But now there is a real sense of 'we've got to do this' because we're getting nowhere playing conservative cricket.
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