England continued on the trail in direction of one in all their worst Cricket World Cup campaigns with a humbling 229-run defeat to South Africa on Saturday.
In addition to being England’s heaviest ODI defeat by runs, it was their third in 4 video games at this yr’s match – one away from equalling an undesirable file.
England misplaced 4 out of six video games in each 1996 and 2015 and right here, we take a look at how the present match compares.
1996
England misplaced their opening recreation to New Zealand by 11 runs, however wins over group minnows the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands primarily ensured their quarter-final place, in a format which lent itself to the massive groups progressing comfortably.
They rounded out the group stage with defeats to South Africa, by 78 runs, and Pakistan by seven wickets, leaving them fourth and going through Group A shock package deal Sri Lanka, who gained the quarter-final by 5 wickets with nearly 10 overs to spare on their approach to the title – Sanath Jayasuriya hit 82 off 44 balls.
A bowling assault led by Darren Gough and Peter Martin, and with spinner Richard Illingworth sharing the brand new ball in opposition to Sri Lanka, struggled within the match and took their wickets at a median of 33 runs, which might stay England’s worst at a World Cup till 2011.
Solely 4 England batters handed 100 runs, together with captain Michael Atherton who averaged 19.83.
2015
A 15-run defeat to underdogs Bangladesh was the important thing second as England exited the match within the group stage for under the third time, following 1999 and 2003.
England had been additionally closely overwhelmed by Pool A’s fancied groups, by 111 runs in opposition to Australia and eight and 9 wickets respectively in opposition to New Zealand and Sri Lanka, with their solely wins coming in opposition to Scotland and Afghanistan.
Their common of 29.49 runs for every wicket misplaced was their third-lowest at a World Cup, beating solely 1979 (23.82) and 2003 (25.85), whereas a charge of 37.47 per wicket taken was their worst ever. Amongst bowlers who performed no less than three video games, solely Steven Finn (25.00) averaged below 45.
2023
England are on monitor for worse averages with bat and ball than in that dismal 2015 marketing campaign, at the moment averaging 27.13 runs per wicket misplaced and a barely plausible 42.61 with the ball.
Dawid Malan’s stunning century in opposition to Bangladesh is a lone hand up to now – Mark Wooden remarkably leads the batting averages, with 80 runs in 58 balls for one dismissal, however has taken three wickets at 70. Reece Topley, who leads the bowling averages with eight wickets at 22.87, is not going to play once more on the match as a result of a damaged finger.
The 229-run margin in opposition to South Africa surpassed by over 100 England’s earlier heaviest World Cup loss batting second, a 122-run defeat to the identical opposition in 1999. Australia final yr inflicted England’s then-record ODI defeat, by 221 runs.
Equally, the nine-wicket loss to New Zealand has been surpassed solely as soon as, Sri Lanka chasing down 230 with out dropping a wicket in 2011, and matched twice extra – by South Africa in 2007 and Sri Lanka in 2015. The Black Caps had 82 balls remaining, exceeded solely by the Proteas amongst these video games and by solely three England World Cup losses ever.
England’s solely different four-loss World Cup got here in 2007, after they performed 9 video games in a match that includes a ‘Tremendous Eight’ stage. They misplaced three in 1987, 1992, 2003, 2011 and on their approach to the 2019 title.
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