The title of this blog references a song by the band Orange Juice ('Rip it up'). If you were an England cricket fan watching the teams performances at the World Cup, you would probably have needed more than an orange juice to watch them.
Yet another shocking and pitiful World Cup tournament ended for England on Monday when they failed to beat Bangladesh. They will fly home after Friday's match against Afghanistan, who on current form you honestly wouldn't back England to beat.
England's 2015 World Cup to date has seen them only beat Scotland and be soundly beaten by Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Big changes need to be made in English cricket as quite frankly they are going nowhere at the moment.
So who should shoulder the blame? There is no one definitive answer to that question. All of the people at the top of English cricket are to blame for causing the team to be the laughing stock of world cricket, particularly in the one day format.
Take coach Peter Moores. His response of 'We'll need to look at the data' after the defeat to Bangladesh was astonishing. Moores seems a nice enough bloke but he is obsessed with data and burying his head in page after page of stats. Quite frankly, being that intense does not endear you to the dressing room and isn't a winning formula to try and win cricket matches. Here's some data for Moores; Ireland have won three games in the tournament and England have won one. With all due respect to Ireland, who have provided some of the greatest ever cricket world cup moments, that's a total embarrassment for England and Moores.
Quite frankly Moores should never have been appointed as coach again. His first spell was hardly a resounding success. Across all formats of the game, he won 27 games out of 68 and led England to only three test series victories out of seven. His second spell has seen him oversee defeats to Sri Lanka in all formats of the game since summer 2014. He just isn't good enough.
However, Moores can't be the sole guilty party in this charade. Managing director Paul Downton looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights most of the time and you have to question whether a man with a test batting average of under 20 is qualified to be managing English cricket. Along with Moores, the pair dithered for far too long to remove Alastair Cook as the one day captain when his confidence was shattered and he was starting to look like a player who had just broken into his local club side.
By taking so long to sack Cook, new captain Eoin Morgan had little to no time to prepare for the World Cup. Morgan has been a disappointment as captain and batsman this tournament but he was hardly given the rightful support from those above him.
Colin Graves takes over as the chairman of the England and Wales cricket board in May from Giles Clarke, who has long outstayed his welcome. Clarke of course made Kevin Pietersen the scapegoat for the Ashes whitewash in 2013-14, banishing from the team. Pietersen has his faults, significant ones to be honest but there is no doubting that he has been shoddily treated by the ECB who needed someone to take the attention off them when they were failing.
Later in 2014, Clarke told England fans to move on from Pietersen's departure. Clearly he wanted to stick to his guns, but couldn't he see that it was and still is hard for fans to accept they will never see a man who helped win them Ashes series, a T20 world cup and countless big games in an England shirt ever again if Clarke had his way.
Pietersen isn't a miracle worker, but he was recently the second highest run scorer in Australia's T20 tournament and it's hard to believe this England team are better off leaving him at home.
National selector James Whitaker should be packing his bags too. Leaving Pietersen aside, Ben Stokes would have provided all round skill for the team and surely Whitaker and Moores can see Jos Butler is batting way too low down at number seven. England are still in the mindset of thinking 300 is a good score in one day cricket.
That stems from Moores, Downtown and Whitaker who were all decent but never great cricketers. They haven't evolved as their sport has evolved and with them in charge England will never win anything.
Graves needs to bin Moores, Downtown and Whitaker upon entering in May, or sooner if he really wants to lay down a marker. Only by wiping the slate clean with new management can the England cricket team even begin to think about prospering again.
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