England Winning One Day Games Shock

With all this football around it had largely escaped Wickman's notice that there is a big one day series on against the Aussies.

Never has a one day series against the best team in the world been so poorly trailed and begun with such poor visibility. Perhaps it was because it didn't kick off at Lords, but who could tell from the papers that there was even cricket to think about?

Without the framing around it of an Ashes Test series, this one day malarky has slipped in under many radars. With people playing 108 game sets of tennis, our boys in South Africa scoring two magnificent free flowing goals and dismissing the mighty (hem hem) Slovenia with one of them, the back pages are thickly layered with other sports.

And the front of the papers are the same. Footballers were allowed a beer on Tuesday night, our tennis players (apart from the Scottish one) all lost (not enough beer) and all the momentum seems to be with them. And quietly England beat Australia in a fifty over game. And Eoin Morgan absolutley destroyed them. And didn't get as much recognition as this achievement deserved.

This begs questions. How much beer is Morgan drinking? And if our footballers have the momentum, is there enough left over for cricket? And have the sports editors of the nationals decided that 50 over cricket is now so unworthy of space that a vicotry against RICKY PONTING'S AUSTRALIA is not worth the work necessary to write it up? Will a century scoring English cricketer make it on to the back or front page of a National paper if it's in a fifty over match again?