This Champions Trophy very nearly relaunched English enthusiasm for one-day cricket. It ended with 100 words in The Times – marginally more coverage than Stephen Hendry received for reaching the last 16 of the Glasgow Grand Prix and a quarter of the space afforded to news that umpires have successfully petitioned to have the tea-break extended by five minutes. For the papers, as so often with England, it’s all or nothing.

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So the New Zealanders came, saw and were duly conquered in the Champions Trophy final. Australia uber alles, and all that.

It is, of course, churlish to deny the Australians the glory they have earned and deserve.

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