Away from the soccer World Cup, 'England' played Australia at one-day cricket yesterday, and won.
I say 'England' because it's technically England and Wales, and because a large number of the players aren't actually English, Welsh or British. Taking a leaf out of the Irish soccer playbook of the 1980s-1990s, 'England's' team consists largely of Zimbabweans, South Africans and various others (Strauss, Pietersen, Kieswetter…). Amongst them is an Irishman, Eoin Morgan, who qualifies simply because he's played county cricket in England and wanted to join the élite (never mind that the Ireland team he abandoned is a rising star).
Morgan won the game for 'England' last night. There will not, I suspect, be street parties in Ireland in his honour.
Watching England v Slovenia this afternoon? 0-0 draw, I feel.
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