Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I presume I'm one of those fools. Just feels like we've lurched too far into the T20 format. We can't bat 50 overs, way too many early wickets in all the games.Yeah for me this doesn't feel like a structural problem at all. Sure maybe their heads aren't in the game but this side clearly has more than enough talent to make the semi-finals and obviously knows how to win a WC. This is a form and leadership issue; there isn't much wrong with the team that couldn't be fixed by confidence and replacing Buttler as captain (and maybe Mott too).
People - well, really one or two fools in the other thread - saying that this proves that England need to play in a less T20esque, aggressive style are completely deluded. Obviously this has been a horrible balls-up of a tournament but the idea that anyone saw this coming is laughable, much less that this proves that the complete shift in philosophy post-2015 was wrong and they need to go back to old-fashioned mid-00s ODI cricket.
Now that may well be some kind of form and leadership issue, but I fear it runs deeper than that and we'll be back into that 24 years of shite again.