hard luck

He added that the upheaval was indicative of the hard luck of California Republicans.

They will also tell a hard luck story after referee Michael Oliver's declined to award a penalty after the video assistant referee studied what looked like a handball by Jack Grealish from Cole Palmer's second-half free-kick before deciding no offence had been committed.

The time for hard luck stories and excuses has gone.

But now, with just 10 matches remaining, they need significantly more than goodwill and hard luck.

But after scoring only 59 and losing eight wickets in the last 10 overs of their own innings, England cannot put this defeat down to the conditions or any kind of hard luck.