Cricket World Cup: England stutter to victory over Bangladesh

Just when you think that the England submersible has hit the bottom of the Great Ineptness Ocean, they somehow manage to find another abyssal trench to fall into.  Today, that trench was Bangladesh, or more specifically the batting against Bangladesh.

England were set the mind-bogglingly easy total of 145 to win, yet somehow managed to labour towards their goal with such maladroit toil that you could be mistaken for thinking they were the British Leyland workforce in the 1970s.  It was so appalling that my brain cannot bring itself to transmit the details to my fingers as I type this; needless to say it was a foul tasting cocktail of stupid shots, lightning slow run rates, inability to read spin and questionable ability and attitude, leading to them crawling past the required total in the 44th over.  THE 44TH OVER!!

Australia would have finished this off in about 15 overs, yet we look like we are batting with a peg-leg bat. Have a look at the scorecard for the full horror. [lee calvert]