Cardiffdaffs
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Without doubt the 1950 WC defeat to USA in Belo Horizonte is acknowledged to be our biggest shock. First of all we were ranked in the top 5 teams in the world at the time and were playing a team of amateurs including a postman, funeral director and flour mill worker. Defeats against fellow professionals like the Afghanistan cricket team are not comparable to that 1950 shock.
And if you cite the heat as a mitigating reason then in 1950 so you could argue the conditions in Delhi when the dew settled on the pitch and aided the very good Afghan spinners.
And if you cite the heat as a mitigating reason then in 1950 so you could argue the conditions in Delhi when the dew settled on the pitch and aided the very good Afghan spinners.