England's Ian Bell waits on the field after he was dismissed for 63 runs during their Cricket World Cup Pool A match against Bangladesh. Photo / AP
The England cricket team are out of the Cricket World Cup 2015 after suffering a humiliating defeat to Bangladesh in Adelaide last night.
It was the side's fourth defeat in five games with the only win coming against Scotland. It means England have failed to make the semifinals of the World Cup every tournament since 1992.
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The English press has not taken kindly to the team's defeat. Here's a sample of what's being said:
England need change: Paul Downton, Peter Moores and James Whitaker must go
Geoffrey Boycott says after this terrible World Cup the England management and players should cop the same flak and anger Yorkshire received from Colin Graves in 2011.
In 2011 Yorkshire were relegated and Graves was very angry. He publicly castigated the players and coaching staff and said everybody's job was up for grabs. The players got it in the neck and all coaching staff jobs were advertised. Three of them lost their jobs and we had a new first team, second team and academy coach. I think Graves has to do the same now with England. Peter Moores, the coach, Paul Downton, the managing director, and James Whitaker, the chairman of selectors, have a lot to answer for.
The Telegraph has a piece titled 11 reasons why this is England's worst World Cup.
Dean Wilson says a defeat by 15-runs, brought a close to one of the most shameful events in English cricket history and not even a row over Chris Jordan's dismissal can disguise how bad this campaign has been.
The sight of Peter Moores, the beleaguered coach, remonstrating with the fourth official on the sidelines over Jordan's run out, when it looked like he might have had the shoulder of the bat grounded, summed up his and his team's frustration, but they only have themselves to blame.
England's World Cup humiliation means Peter Moores' number could be up
Instead of focusing on England's dismal performance, Mike Selvey gives Bangladesh some credit: So at the outset, on what is without question one of the most dismal days in reporting 30 years of England cricket, it was also one of the most uplifting. For Bangladesh did not fluke their win, they did not have the rub of the green, but quite simply played good, controlled, disciplined cricket, led superbly by Mashrafe Mortaza, to overcome a team that looked scared of their own shadows. Bangladesh were as vibrant on the field as their supporters were off it. Home or away, they will - by contrast to England - celebrate to the full one of the great days they will ever experience: A likely quarter-final against India at the MCG is a deserved reward. It was a pleasure to watch their exuberance. But then came the aftermath, and, in a single sentence, Peter Moores appeared to sum up much of what has so constipated his squad this past month or so.
"We thought 275 was chaseable," he said. "We shall have to look at the data."
Stephen Brenkley says immediate and pertinent questions will be asked about the roles of Peter Moores, the coach who returned to the job for the second time less than a year ago, and his direct boss, Paul Downton, the managing director of England cricket, who appointed him.
Paul Newmann is scathing. This was the World Cup that England were supposed to take seriously and prepare thoroughly for. 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.
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.
England have been able to defeat just Scotland in this tournament and after being thrashed by Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka they have now been humbled by a team in Bangladesh who are little more than minnows themselves.
This tournament was set up to virtually guarantee the progress of the big eight teams to the quarter-finals. 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.
Or so it seemed. Instead this is a defeat that deserves to be considered as a total disgrace.
The White Ferns have remarkably reached the final.