Another critical test match for England starts at Edgbaston today and once again the familiar sensation of doom pervades our expectations, while any amount of pondering struggles to find an answer to the recurring question ‘what is wrong with the England cricket team?’. Cricket betting enthusiasts will be weary with the almost permanent sensation that absolutely nothing seems to be working.

Clichéd England Excuses

Our selectors make bizarre choices and attract incredulity and derision from the commentators, the batsmen score runs one day and then roll over the next, our bowlers struggle to get a single wicket in a days play while the captain, in the consistently laid back tone of the classic England captain rolls out the clichéd excuses with laid back body language in a voice which, although nauseatingly infused with a defensive tone, is somehow still capable of arrogant defiance in the face of entirely reasonable criticism.

Online betting fan’s hearts sink at the return of the out-of-form Collingwood and the troublesome Harmison, signalling the extent to which the England cricket team is a club for the boys and that, if your face fits, then so will you. This, coupled with a captain who appears utterly incapable of inspiring his men to go into battle with the unremitting will to win, suggests that this series may well have been lost before it even started.

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