Cricket Lovely Cricket, At Lord’s where I saw it.” One can bet that this calypso composed by West Indies’s Lord Beginner to celebrate the region’s win over England in 1950 was not sung by die-hard cricket lovers as they left the famous cricket venue in London on Sunday.

What those spectators got for shelling out their hard-earned money for the England vs New Zealand Test was 40 wickets falling across four days (the third day was marred by rain) on a pitch that was nothing short of a disgrace.