‘Just part and parcel of sport’: Adil Rashid shrugs off England’s losing habit

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As England come to terms with a third defeat in the first four games of their West Indies tour, Adil Rashid says he is relaxed about the prospect of his once all-conquering side bumping along the cricketing seabed for a while. He considers it an inevitable part of the sporting cycle that, in the end, even winners lose.

“That’s fine, that happens,” Rashid said. “You can’t always win World Cups, you can’t win series every time. Obviously, we’d love to do that but it’s part and parcel of sport, not just cricket, in football – you see the best in the world, one minute they win a World Cup, the next minute they lose.

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