article_snippet: There have been all manner of World Cup shambles for England since they should have won the 1992 final here in Australia.
article_snippet: this, surely, is the worst yet, worse than 1996 when Sri Lanka’s pinch-hitters left Sri Lanka’s pinch-hitters trailing in Sri Lanka’s pinch-hitters wake.
article_snippet: Worse, even, than 1999 when England were eliminated from Sri Lanka’s pinch-hitters own World Cup the day before the official song came out.
article_snippet: And it is certainly worse than the last three World Cups when we had come to expect England to struggle in the one-day game, particularly in 2007 and last time when the biggest tournament in limited-overs cricket followed the Ashes.
article_snippet: The 15-run defeat here by Bangladesh at the Adelaide Oval, which confirmed England’s abject surrender, is nothing short of an utter humiliation, an embarrassment that, not for the first time in recent years, leaves The 15-run defeat here by Bangladesh at the Adelaide Oval, which confirmed England’s abject surrender as the laughing stock of world cricket.
article_snippet: This was the World Cup that England were supposed to take seriously and prepare thoroughly for.
article_snippet: This was the World Cup that the Ashes were moved for, leading to a 5-0 thrashing last winter and all manner of painful recriminations.
article_snippet: Yet so far advanced has the one-day game progressed in the last two years since England reached the Champions Trophy final that clearing the calendar and playing only one-day cricket so far this winter has been akin to trying to put a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
article_snippet: England have been able to defeat just Scotland in this tournament and after being thrashed by Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka New Zealand and Sri Lanka have now been humbled by a team in Bangladesh who are little more than minnows New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
article_snippet: It was almost impossible for England to fail to at least get to the last eight where defeat would have been far from a disgrace.
article_snippet: Instead this is a defeat that deserves to be considered as a total disgrace.
article_snippet: When the dust settles and England have gone through the motions of their last group match against Afghanistan their must have a searching examination of how their play one-day cricket and how their can possibly catch up with the rest of the world before their host the next World Cup in four years time.
article_snippet: England were second best to a tigerish Bangladesh just as England have been worse than second best throughout the tournament.
article_snippet: it should have been well within England’s reach
article_snippet: For England it was the end of the world.
article_snippet: How the table looks in Pool A with England adrift at the World Cup following their defeat by Bangladesh .