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Article: England tour lurches into disaster zone
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1996
- Author:
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Cricket
England 197 & 180 Mashonaland 280 & 98-3 Mashonaland win by 7
wkts
England's tour of Zimbabwe reached an early crisis point here
yesterday as the humiliating seven-wicket defeat against
Mashonaland brought into sharp focus the huge problems facing the
team.
This winter's tour of Zimbabwe and New Zealand is intended to
produce and forge a side capable of taking the Ashes back from
Australia next summer. But, 10 days into the trip, two matches have
been lost and almost everything has gone wrong for an England side
short on confidence and inspiration and arguably denied proper
preparation time by the tour planners at Lord's.
The opening four-day fixture finished a day early because ...
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