In the ICC world cup cricket, right from the beginning Team England has been unpredictable. Take their first match with Netherlands, they win it but they struggled and could not control Netherlands from scoring runs. After the match skipper Strauss told that we play well with good teams.
Their second match with India, it was a brilliant match a must watch for all cricket lovers. Before the match started and even after the first inning, we were more than sure that India is gonna win but as they started batting, England brought the match completely in their favor and they could have win it comfortably but in the last moment Zaheer picked up few wickets and match was a tie.
Third match with Ireland, the most fascinating inning from Ireland batsman Kevin O' Brien who changed the match single handedly with a 50 ball hundred the fastest in world cup that too by a margin of 17 balls, making England loose to Ireland. I think this will be the most unpredictable inning ever from England and also from Ireland.
After these performances, it was sure that they will loose to SA, but they win it by 6 runs, the match was one-sided when England were all out for 171 against the strong batting line up of SA. But in second inning they bowled out SA for 165 winning by 6 runs mysteriously.
And their last match with Bangladesh, after defeating SA no body would have thought they could loose match to Bangladesh. England bowled out again on 225 and unfortunately could not save this time and they lost it with a mind-blowing 9th wicket partnership from Bangladeshis.
The question is : Are all these just coincidences one following another for England or its pointing towards something else? Yes, you are right. I am talking about match fixings here. Lets see, hope all these don't end up with a match fixing news once again after the mega series.
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