England’s problems stem partly from scheduling issues in our domestic game which basically means our best white ball cricketers don’t play 50 over cricket outside of international matches and even then the number of games we’ve played over recent years has been minimal and the squad picked often involved a large amount of rotation. Understandably, people would place the reigning champions of both 50 and 20 over cricket as one of the favourites for a tournament but their underwhelming performance isn’t that big of a surprise given the poor preparation for this World Cup over the last couple of years.