Headingley

McAlpine Stadium, as it was called, in Huddersfield.

Headingley in Leeds.

Vicarage Road in Watford.

Edinburgh's Tyne Castle Stadium.

So the quarterfinal, Ireland played England and they beat Ireland 26-16 England.

So they didn't just put them away.

It was quite a good event at Headingley.

I was there.

McAlpine Stadium, as it was called, in Huddersfield.

Headingley in Leeds.

Vicarage Road in Watford.

Edinburgh's Tyne Castle Stadium.

So the quarterfinal, Ireland played England, and they beat Ireland 26-16 England.

So they didn't just put them away.

It was quite a good event at Headingley.

I was there.

McAlpine Stadium, as it was called, in Huddersfield.

Headingley in Leeds.

Vicarage Road in Watford.

Edinburgh's Tyne Castle Stadium.

So the quarterfinal, Ireland played England, and they beat Ireland 26-16 England.

So they didn't just put them away.

It was quite a good event at Headingley.

I was there.

But sometimes, you know, the kind of second tier venues in different locations won't get one.

But we really wanted to go to, but Headingley's off, you know, this year and you find out late.

And it's even more so, I think, that issue is with the World Cups.

And it's great that, like, the ICG started to expand kind of the World Cup, also in the Caribbean and the US in 24.

And he fell in love with Keith Miller.

And he remembers seeing the Australians walking out at Headingley and suddenly seeing these bronzed, fit, godlike figures.

And he was fascinated by it.

And his father shared it.

But today was just one of those huge outliers.

I mean, I think that the concern would be for England is that, OK, if it happens once in a blue moon... kind fine you sort of shrug and say well that's cricket that you know that's the nature of it Shadab had a day out but it's happened twice in three days now where they've lost games that they they shouldn't really have lost and also you know not longer they lost a game against Sri Lanka at Headingley which I thought they shouldn't have lost as well they were 143 for no wicket chasing 320 and you okay that was a you know stiff target and the ball started just reverse a little bit and And Sri Lanka bowled well.

But those are the games, you know, really good sides just make no mistake in.

They just closed them out.

Have a look at the highlights.

He actually maneuvered the situation beautifully for Pakistan.

I mean, it wasn't one of those, it wasn't like Ian Botham at Headingley in 1981, those that can remember that, where basically the first part of his innings was quite a lot of slogging, wasn't it? He thought, I'm just going to have a hit here.

And then he started to play some more authentic shots there were lots of really clever shots from shut up lifting the ball away with fine leg up inside the circle as England didn't bowl particularly well so it was a magnificent innings just imagine the adrenaline that must be pumping through him at the end of that game to win a match like that and Harris Ralph as well so it wasn't sort of blind slogging that you had down at where was it was it Canterbury where you put that partnership together with Angus Fraser yeah Yeah, but I mean, you chance your arm, don't you? But I thought Shadow today, it was a really fine effort.