The English men's cricket team has actually won a world cup by consistently playing better than the opposition.
No one is suggesting Paul Collingwood is the new Bobby Moore or Martin Johnson, but winning the World Twenty20 competition in the Caribbean is likely to scoop the team award at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award ... unless another English team defy the odds to win a different World Cup in a few weeks' time.
But the likelihood is that the English disease will reappear, and we'll go out on penalties well before the final.
MBEs all round for the cricketers, then, except that many of them already have the gong for winning the Ashes in 2005.
It's all a far cry from England's efforts in South Africa in 2007, particularly against India's Yuvraj Singh ...
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