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Evening everyone and welcome to another England cricket crisis. After carrying their one-day bravado into the five-day game with great success, they’ve forgotten how to display it in the formats that used to be their forte. They had a dismal World Cup, made drastic changes and discovered that even if you replace the cast, the script can remain the same. So far on their tour of the Caribbean they have lost four matches out of five. If they flop again tonight, they will have blown both the series with two games still to play.
The captain, wicketkeeper and star player, Jos Buttler, is only half-way back to form. The coach, Matthew Mott, is still making people wonder how on earth he managed to win a T20 World Cup. The batters keep turning fast starts into feeble finishes. The bowlers seem to nominate one of their number to get destroyed in each game. Two or three times it has been Sam Curran, a bowler-who-bats who is mostly batting better than he bowls.