FFS, and some bloke on the radio earlier today saying that their bowlers wouldn't trouble England, garbage.

Feel pretty disappointed right now. England shouldn't be losing to Bangladesh and poor old Jos Buttler was left with too much to do.

I personally feel the captaincy and management of the team was poor. Why they persisted with and out of form Finn and Ballance is beyond me. Hales should have been playing a long time ago and only played his first game today.

One things for sure the demand for KP to return will increase now England have crashed out and I wouldn't be surprised if the new chairman has a word.

England need to:

- reduce the number of test matches and focus more on One Day Cricket.
- Revamp their domestic T20 competition to have 8 teams similar to the IPL.
- Get Kevin Pietersen back into the fold.
- Get in a foreign coach who knows what they are doing. Micky Arthur or maybe even Jason Gillespie at Yorkshire.
- Start showing some international/domestic cricket on terrestrial television so the next generation can be inspired to take up cricket.

Get rid of this notion that you should play your natural game. It annoys me when stroke players start playing shots when we're in trouble, it's been like that for a while though. Like Goughie not wanting to bowl a slower ball because it would bring his speed averages down.

Unfortunately, T20 is here to stay - And is a large Part of the Game nowadays. It is also ruining test cricket, which is a mighty shame.

It seems that cricket playing nations either need to cater for both forms of the game, or choose one they wish to excel in. Some of the smaller Cricketing nations don't really have the luxury/resources to do both, but I would Fully expect England to be able to.
we Seems to have stuck-in-the-past grudge holding Selectors/Management/Coaches who refuse to accept change.
In Most cases, there needs to be 2 seperate teams - a t20/One Day and a Test team. There will be some cross-overs, but there should also be players (and coaches) only associated to the side that they are selected for. That would be a start.

Edited by CrazyBadger (09 Mar 2015 2.07pm)

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Agreed. Test cricket is what it's all about. T20/baseball can do one as far as I'm concerned. Good fun for a boozy Friday night at The Oval but nothing else.

As for the World Cup, I didn't expect much but I didn't think it would be this bad. Morgan should resign as captain, his form is woeful, he clearly can't cope with the pressure. KP should come back in, he is the only world-class explosive batsman we have. Was impressed with Jordans bowling this morning so hopefully we'll see more of him.

Guess it can't get any worse eh?!

Only because Clarke was injured, and they dropped Bailey once Clarke was available again. Let's not make out like it was a stroke of genius.

I don't agree that he was unknown outside of Australia either.

Change is needed, but start with the coach and let him decide on a new captain.

Optimistic as ever