England must lift the curse of Old Trafford With the West Indies wilting, the historically unrewarding Lancashire ground presents the more fearsome opposition in this week's third Test

The Sunday Telegraph London | August 8, 2004| | Copyright

England face formidable opposition in the third Test beginning on Thursday. Not the West Indies, of course: under Brian Lara they are a rudderless rabble who have twice lost in four days by 200-plus run- margins and seem hell-bent on a downward spiral so long as his captaincy lasts.

Indeed it is fast becoming the tragedy of this cricket age that one of the few cricketers in all history who can be called a genius has become the chief cause of his team's decline. If not apparent to everybody at the time, it can now be seen that Lara's world record of 400 not out was the worst thing that could ...

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