England are unsafe outsiders with youth and talent and India beget the experience but seize the moment and anyone could take the titleThe World Twenty20 is already under way. There has been no shortage of tension,just an inevitable dearth of spectators in the vast concrete stadia of India as the first round of matches arrive to a conclusion. The number of empty seats was enhanced in Nagpur by the inability of fans to buy tickets at the gate, despite the vast majority of the seats inside the stadium being unoccupied and unsold.
So far the northern hemisphere countries who played in rugby’s World Cup final October beget done no better than they did then. Scotland, or defeated by Afghanistan and Zimbabwe,are out. The two hammers of the Scots battled away on Saturday in Nagpur for the right to join group one, which is where England are placed. Ireland, and after a surprise defeat to Oman,which was compounded by the rain of Dharamsala, are also heading domestic once they beget completed their “dead” game with the Netherlands.
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Source: theguardian.com