This has been truly shocking. Not so much from the performance but the total lack of intent from both our batsmen and bowlers and inability to change our game.
As the saying goes "if you do what you've always done, you will get what you've always got".
We have a lot of test match style batsmen who simply don't have that ability to intimidate the opposition in the short term. It's "build, build, build" with us but with the likes of McCallum, Warner, De Villiers etc etc it's "destroy, destroy, destroy".
What we really need is to not qualify for the next stages. To lose to one or two of the lesser nations too (although we have actually become one too now). Because a couple of soft victories and scraping a quarter final win will mean we will come home as losing semi-finalists and the English Board will use that to suggest that not a lot is wrong.
Geoffrey Boycott Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special Posted at "When you get a pitch like this, your object is to bat as well as you can and put the pressure on the team under lights and try and get up to 300 if you can. Everything was set up for England, they had conviction in their selection and then it happened. Well, nothing happened really. There was the tiniest bit of shape from Southee and he got them playing the wrong shots, they got out in all sorts of ways and then it was mayhem."
I'm just wondering how many times in the history of ODIs has a side reached their target inside 12.2 overs. Can't be more than a handful and probably not chasing as many as NZ had to.
What a complete and utter shambles.embarrassing.why do england insist on playing the test team for the one dayers? Ballance ali root bell should be nowhere near the team.dont worry KP will be back next game....oh wait a minute.
Thought the windies were poor the other day with the application and lack of effort, this blew that out the water. Disgusting from start to finish, a clueless side. All of the associates have performed a lot better than out so called stars
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The fastest 50 in WC history.
hopefully I wake up and see that we went from strength to strength after lunch and won
Guptill bowled by Woakes.
As the saying goes "if you do what you've always done, you will get what you've always got".
We have a lot of test match style batsmen who simply don't have that ability to intimidate the opposition in the short term. It's "build, build, build" with us but with the likes of McCallum, Warner, De Villiers etc etc it's "destroy, destroy, destroy".
What we really need is to not qualify for the next stages. To lose to one or two of the lesser nations too (although we have actually become one too now). Because a couple of soft victories and scraping a quarter final win will mean we will come home as losing semi-finalists and the English Board will use that to suggest that not a lot is wrong.
But that couldn't be further from the truth.
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
Posted at
"When you get a pitch like this, your object is to bat as well as you can and put the pressure on the team under lights and try and get up to 300 if you can. Everything was set up for England, they had conviction in their selection and then it happened. Well, nothing happened really. There was the tiniest bit of shape from Southee and he got them playing the wrong shots, they got out in all sorts of ways and then it was mayhem."
Pool A
Team
Last updated 20 February 2015 at 05:37
1 New Zealand 3 3 0 0 0 3.59 6.0
2 Australia 1 1 0 0 0 2.22 2.0
3 Bangladesh 1 1 0 0 0 2.10 2.0
4 Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 0 -1.96 0.0
5 Afghanistan 1 0 1 0 0 -2.10 0.0
6 Scotland 1 0 1 0 0 -3.04 0.0
7 England 2 0 2 0 0 -3.95 0.0
Pool B
Team
Last updated 20 February 2015 at 05:37
1 India 1 1 0 0 0 1.52 2.0
2 South Africa 1 1 0 0 0 1.24 2.0
3 Ireland 1 1 0 0 0 0.62 2.0
4 Zimbabwe 2 1 1 0 0 -0.50 2.0
5 1 0 1 0 0 -0.26 0.0
6 West Indies 1 0 1 0 0 -0.62 0.0
7 Pakistan 1 0 1 0 0 -1.52 0.0
All of the associates have performed a lot better than out so called stars