England Captain Bemoans Dismal Loss Against Sri Lanka

South Africa bowled the reigning champions out for 156, earlier than easing to an eight-wicket victory after posting 160/2 in simply 25.4 overs.

The defeat was the most recent in an extended line of disappointments on the event, with England failing miserably to reside as much as their tag as one of many bookmakers’ favourites to raise the trophy.

A report of 1 win in 5 video games has left punters scratching their heads, significantly in rising betting jurisdictions such because the Center East.

A number of cricket betting websites in Arab nations fielded a flurry of wagers on England within the run-up to the World Cup, forcing them to considerably minimize their odds within the outright market.

Nevertheless, England have proved to be an ally for the bookies, with a victory over Bangladesh all they’ve to point out from their efforts after 5 matches.

Extra worryingly, the way of their performances in opposition to New Zealand, Afghanistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka has left many sports activities bettors scratching their heads.

In his press convention after the Sri Lanka sport, Buttler admitted that his group’s lack of ability to compete with their rivals has left him perplexed.

“We’re a extremely good group – we’ve performed quite a lot of actually good issues within the latest previous in white-ball cricket and 50-over cricket,” Buttler stated.

“You get on the airplane with excessive hopes and a perception we are able to problem for the title so to take a seat right here now after the three weeks which have been is a shock. It is a shock to everybody.

“I am going to return to the altering room and take a look at the gamers sat there and assume, ‘how have we obtained ourselves into this place with the expertise and the ability that is within the room?’

“However it’s the place we’re in, it is the truth of what is occurred during the last three weeks. It is an enormous low level.”

Having arrived in India as the primary ever males’s group to carry the ODI and T20 World Cup titles on the identical time, England’s demise has caught many individuals abruptly.

Nevertheless, their failure to rejig what has undoubtedly been a vastly profitable group has ultimately caught up with them. The highest groups preserve evolving and England haven’t performed that.

Each participant chosen in opposition to Sri Lanka was aged 30 or over – the primary time this has ever occurred within the 791 one-day internationals England have performed.

They made an affordable begin in opposition to Sri Lanka, with their openers making 45 in simply 6.3 overs. Issues rapidly went downhill from there as 5 wickets fell within the subsequent 9 overs.

In stark distinction to their shows in latest restricted overs tournaments, England’s gamers have been responsible of being too cautious. David Willey’s solitary six throughout their innings was testomony to their lack of ability to take the sport to Sri Lanka.

Whereas Ben Stokes did his greatest to tug England out of their hunch, a knock of 43 runs in 73 balls demonstrated that even his heroics weren’t at their ordinary degree.

England have been equally unimpressive with the ball, and their lack of ability to stem the movement of singles finally allowed Sri Lanka to cross their goal simply.

Buttler insisted the gamers knew they needed to make issues occur in the event that they needed to retain the title and dismissed the thought that they had taken issues as a right through the event.

“In any sport, you’ll be able to’t defend something, you must go and create one thing new,” Buttler added. “We’ve touched on expertise and having banked stuff earlier than however one thing we spoke about lots as a group is that you must go and create it once more.

“You may’t remainder of your laurels or simply to guard a picture or defend one thing as a group. That’s why on the very starting of the event, I stated we weren’t right here to defend our title, we have been right here to start out one thing new and win one thing.

“Clearly, we’re falling a great distance in need of that for the time being however, as gamers, we didn’t take something as a right or simply assume it’ll be alright on the evening. You don’t get to the extent like this by pondering like that.”