England’s embarrassing campaign in the continuing ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup continued with their fifth loss in the event, this time to India and it’ll damage most likely essentially the most because the defending champions had been proper in the sport after the primary innings however the batters upset as soon as once more as they fell quick by 100 runs off India’s 229-run rating. England have received only one recreation in the event to date and depart alone qualification for the semifinals, the defending champions are in hazard of lacking out on a spot in the 2025 Champions Trophy.
The prime seven groups and hosts Pakistan qualify for the Champions Trophy based mostly on the factors desk of the World Cup and England with losses to New Zealand, Afghanistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and India have not helped themselves one bit and are required to win most likely all of their remaining three video games.
England’s World Cup 2023 campaign is the worst ever for a defending champion dropping 5 matches. Australia misplaced 4 video games in the 1992 version whereas Sri Lanka misplaced three matches in the 1999 version however no staff had misplaced 5 video games in the subsequent version after successful the title.
Most defeats for defending champions in the subsequent version of the World Cup
5 – England (2023)*
4 – Australia (1992)
3 – Sri Lanka (1999)
3 – Australia (2019)
2 – West Indies (1983)
2 – India (1987)
2 – Pakistan (1996)
2 – Australia (2011)
1 – India (2015)
The batting collapse for England has change into so regular that skipper Jos Buttler stated that it was the identical outdated story regardless of them limiting India to a chaseable rating of 230. “Very disappointed. At the halfway stage, chasing 230 and seeing how wet it got, we fancied ourselves, same old story. I wasn’t sure if dew would come or not. Just the gut feel said that we wanted to chase. That’s as good as we’ve been with the ball throughout the tournament. We created good pressure, we bowled well, took wickets. If you said we are chasing 230, we would have been happy with that,” Buttler stated after the loss.
England must face Australia, Pakistan and the Netherlands in their subsequent three video games and must win all three to not simply keep alive in the event however not miss out on Champions Trophy participation.
