When England lifted the T20 World Cup in November 2022, they became the first ever men's team to be One-Day International and Twenty20 world champions simultaneously. In English sport, triumphs aren't just rare – they also tend to be followed by a collapse. England's white-ball cricket side was different: a team that followed scaling the summit by doing so again. They became, as Australia's captain put it, “the benchmark” for the rest of the world.
Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. Matt Roller covers international and T20 cricket for ESPNcricinfo, the world’s leading cricket website. He was named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins young cricket writer of the year for 2021 and has appeared on the BBC’s Test Match Special.
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The gripping story of England's transformation from prissy blockers to double world champions'The Times
Innehållsförteckning
1. Striving For Greatness2. Fail Slow, Fail Often3. A Golden Generation4. The New England5. New Horizons6. Destigmatising Risk7. Embracing Difference8. Expecting to Win9. England DNA10. The Master11. The Start of Something12. Flexible Players, Flexible Minds13. The Perfect Game14. A Tale of Three FinalsEpilogueAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex
When England lifted the T20 World Cup in November 2022, they became the first ever men's team to be One-Day International and Twenty20 world champions simultaneously. In English sport, triumphs aren't just rare – they also tend to be followed by a collapse. England's white-ball cricket side was different: a team that followed scaling the summit by doing so again. They became, as Australia's captain put it, “the benchmark” for the rest of the world.
Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. Matt Roller covers international and T20 cricket for ESPNcricinfo, the world’s leading cricket website. He was named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins young cricket writer of the year for 2021 and has appeared on the BBC’s Test Match Special.
Recensioner i media
The gripping story of England's transformation from prissy blockers to double world champions'The Times
Innehållsförteckning
1. Striving For Greatness2. Fail Slow, Fail Often3. A Golden Generation4. The New England5. New Horizons6. Destigmatising Risk7. Embracing Difference8. Expecting to Win9. England DNA10. The Master11. The Start of Something12. Flexible Players, Flexible Minds13. The Perfect Game14. A Tale of Three FinalsEpilogueAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex
When England lifted the T20 World Cup in November 2022, they became the first ever men's team to be One-Day International and Twenty20 world champions simultaneously. In English sport, triumphs aren't just rare – they also tend to be followed by a collapse. England's white-ball cricket side was different: a team that followed scaling the summit by doing so again. They became, as Australia's captain put it, “the benchmark” for the rest of the world.
Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. Matt Roller covers international and T20 cricket for ESPNcricinfo, the world’s leading cricket website. He was named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins young cricket writer of the year for 2021 and has appeared on the BBC’s Test Match Special.
Recensioner i media
The gripping story of England's transformation from prissy blockers to double world champions'The Times
Innehållsförteckning
1. Striving For Greatness2. Fail Slow, Fail Often3. A Golden Generation4. The New England5. New Horizons6. Destigmatising Risk7. Embracing Difference8. Expecting to Win9. England DNA10. The Master11. The Start of Something12. Flexible Players, Flexible Minds13. The Perfect Game14. A Tale of Three FinalsEpilogueAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex