England cricket fans have put up with a lot of humiliations over the years but never would they have imagined their team would suffer defeat by Afghanistan in the World Cup.
But that is what we witnessed last Sunday and it was not a freak result.
The Afghans outplayed a misfiring England in every department to pull off a convincing and well-deserved victory.
England are the defending world champions and the extraordinary result has to be regarded as one of the biggest World Cup upsets of all time.
In their short cricket history, Afghanistan had previously only won one game in the World Cup and that was against Scotland in 2015.
Even more remarkable is that little more than 20 years ago, they didn’t have a functioning national team.
Newspapers in England reflected the enormity of the result.
“England humbled,”, announced The Guardian while the Evening…
