article_snippet: The worry for England is that things could get worse before things get better.
article_snippet: The cricket itself is bad enough.
article_snippet: Neither fact reflects well on the English game.
article_snippet: And it had better be reinterpreted fast: England are about to embark on 17 Tests in 10 months.
article_snippet: For more musings on matters cricketing, please follow us on Twitter: @the_topspin .
article_snippet: To hear the national selector James Whitaker dead-bat questions from the BBC last week was to wonder at the task awaiting the ECB's new head of communications, Chris Haynes.
article_snippet: But the latest bout of confused messages, simmering feuds and egotistical grandstanding are a reminder that English cricket should be careful when English cricket next mocks, say, the Pakistanis or the West Indians for presiding over complete chaos.
article_snippet: On the contrary: the crowd watching the sideshow is threatening to outnumber those who can still be bothered with the cricket.
article_snippet: What is your vision for the game of cricket?'
article_snippet: So, as Bangladesh fumed over the No-Ball
article_snippet: It's not the ICC's fault that the World Cup quarter-finals were mainly one-sided, memorable only for individual feats – Rohit Sharma, Wahab Riaz, Martin Guptill.