Yuvraj Broadside Sinks England

Yuvraj Singh is good. In fact he's very good. Wickman noticed this in February. But Yuvraj had a stinking world cup and largely looked out of it in the recent one day series between England and India. He also has an odd hairstyle that makes him look like a bizarre Lown. Wickman can't find a picture of him looking like this, but here is surrounded by veg. He looks about as clever as some of it. But he's very popular, rich and probably knobbing a hot Asian babe. Which would probably be what he'd tell Wickman if he was confronted with Wickman's views.

But today he seriously handed it out to Stuart Broad. It was tough to watch the youngster as he seemed powerless to do anything about the mauling he was handed, not even trying a bouncer, slower ball or anything cunning whatsoever. He just ran up, stuck it up there and then watched, with a tinge of sadness, as he was deposited in the stands, out of the ground etc etc.

England leave the tournament with the same playing success record as Zimbabwe. But at least Zim beat Australia. We've been humbled. Dicked on in this game. There's no comfort to be taken because Graveney et al even picked what everyone thought was a good side. It's hardly as if we missed Straussy, Cook, Bellend and Monty for example.

The only thing that is keeping Wickman sane tonight is the astonishing thought that no one has come close to emulating James Hibberd's knock of a couple of weeks ago. Even Yuvraj would have struggled to keep going at that rate...