England's defeat to Holland attracts Atherton's ire
Updated On: 07 June, 2009 06:48 AM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
England's crushing six-wicket defeat at the hands of Holland on Friday has been variously described by the English media as "humiliating", "disgraceful", "one of sport's truly historic upsets", "perhaps the most unexpected result seen at Lord's in it's 195 years" and worse.
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England's crushing six-wicket defeat at the hands of Holland on Friday has been variously described by the English media as "humiliating", "disgraceful", "one of sport's truly historic upsets", "perhaps the most unexpected result seen at Lord's in it's 195 years" and worse.
England's crushing six-wicket defeat at the hands of Holland on Friday has been variously described by the English media as "humiliating", "disgraceful", "one of sport's truly historic upsets", "perhaps the most unexpected result seen at Lord's in it's 195 years" and worse.
Even as the pre-tournament hysteria and hype about England's chances of winning the Twenty20 World Cup at home all but collapsed in a heap for local supporters, former England captain Mike Atherton graciously termed it "the greatest night in Dutch cricketing history and one of England's worst".
Atherton wrote in his column for a London paper: "The Dutch victory, which came as England's fielding completely disintegrated under pressure, was one of the biggest upsets in one-day cricketing history".
He said it ranked alongside Kenya's victory over West Indies at the 1996 World Cup, and the wins by Zimbabwe over Australia in 1983 and in the 2007 World Twenty20 and Bangladesh over the same opponents in 2005. None though were beaten on home turf and at the headquarters of their cricket".
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