This summer represents such an incredible opportunity for cricket in this country. As England players we are so fortunate to have both a World Cup and an Ashes on home soil. Do the double and we really will be in dreamland. The Ashes are in the back of my mind. I had a bit of a stinker on the last tour of Australia but having come back into the Test side since then and done pretty well, I’m viewing this year’s series as a chance to set the record straight. I will be ready. Red-ball cricket can wait, however. First comes the World Cup. At our training camp in Cardiff last month Gareth Southgate, the England football manager, spoke to us about how his team looked to play in a way that fans could get behind, reflected the country’s multiculturalism and embraced the pressure of a global tournament. The great thing was a lot of what he said reinforced so much of what we have already worked towards over the past four years ourselves. In terms of coping with expectation, people may talk about us being the home side, No 1 in the world and among the favourites for the…