NEW ZEALAND’S decimation of England yesterday set standards of all-round brilliance and extreme ruthlessness essential for those seeking this and future World Cups.
Only Australia and South Africa of the other 13 participants in this tournamentcan match it.
Not one of the rest is yet capable of the perfection displayed at Wellington’s Westpace Stadium.
They had quickly learned a vital lesson from their struggles to overcome lowly Scotland in their previous match. It was the danger of complacency, an attitude the West Indies themselves acknowledge largely led to their defeat by plucky, underrated India in the 1983 World Cup final.
There was no such let-up on outclassed England, and there’s unlikely to be on anyone from here on.
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