article_snippet: It was not as if England lost to Bangladesh in the sub-continent.
article_snippet: England lost to Bangladesh in the sub-continent were English-type conditions and it was seamers who took the wickets, not spinners.
article_snippet: That makes it even more of a diabolical result.
article_snippet: Yet, in all honesty, I watched that match
article_snippet: and I wasn’t too fussed about the result because my feeling is that even if England had won and gone on to the quarter-final they would have been hammered by India, South Africa or whoever they faced on a drop-in pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.