The experts on Sky were saying that England are just a good team experiencing a horrendous month with some saying that they would still back them to finish in the top four if the tournament was starting this morning. To me, that is the sort of arrogant and complacent thinking that has got England into the humiliating position they now find themselves in.

The lack of fifty over games played by England between 2019 and now is being offered up as an excuse for their failure by some within and outside of the England camp and yet they wasted so many of the games they played in the lead up to this tournament rotating their squad and including players who had no chance of making the party to India.

England made the fifty over game a priority about ten years ago, but, having made their way to the top by 2019, they've ignored it while presumably thinking they'd cracked it and the game would not evolve as it constantly does - since 2019, the pursuit of money through the Hundred seems to have been the priority.