Henry Moeran
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I think last I checked had one flight per day.
In that part of the country, right in the deep south, it was three venues.
It was men's and women's tournaments side by side as well, Finney.
I mean, it did feel like a sort of real hub and party of international cricket.
Yeah, we'll go through England's tournament then, first and foremost, before moving on to, I suppose, the crunch end of the competition.
England entering the tournament, as I mentioned, as the reigning champions, but though they started well against Afghanistan, massive victory, 116 runs, Luke Wright, 99 not out, missing a century off the final ball, but then collapsing to 80 all out against India.
Their lowest T20 total at the time.
And I think it was Harbijan seeing a Pierce Chawla who spun England a web.
England struggling against spin is not necessarily a new condition.
And you'd have to do well, as I say, not to qualify.
Indeed, England did, despite that massive defeat against India.
The other qualifiers for the Super 8 phase, pretty predictable, really, I think it's fair to say, given the way that the tournament works.
So we saw qualification with England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and West Indies going into Group E.
And then Group F, as it was termed, Australia, India, Pakistan and South Africa.
So pretty predictable.
But immediately, Prakash, you've got two Super 8 groups.
They are packed full of superstars.
It was a really sort of condensed, exciting phase.
Just briefly, looking at some of the names on show, what amazes me is both the combination of names that are still around, bearing in mind we're 14 years on now.