A floundering England will be looking to avoid a potential banana skin when they take on minnows Scotland in a crucial Pool A cricket World Cup match at the Hagley Oval, here tomorrow
Christchurch: A floundering England will be looking to avoid a potential banana skin when they take on minnows Scotland in a crucial Pool A cricket World Cup match at the Hagley Oval, here tomorrow.
The Eoin Morgan-led side has had a terrible couple of outings against co-hosts Australia and New Zealand as they
head into their third game of the 50-over showpiece event.
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England coach Peter Moores (L) speaks with the team captain Eoin Morgan (R) during training ahead of their 2015 Cricket World Cup Group B match against Scotland
If losing to Australia in the opener by 111 runs was disappointing then being bundled out for 123 and eventually
losing by 8 wickets against the Black Caps was embarrassing.
England's 123 was mowed down by the Brendon McCullum-led side in 12.2 overs as a hapless English attack looked on. Middle-order batsman James Taylor made a valiant 98 not out at the MCG and Joe Root made a hard-working 46 at Wellington but the batting unit has failed to fire in totality.
Even the decent-looking English pace attack on paper has looked vulnerable once the opposition got going. The likes of James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Steven Finn might not have had enough runs to defend against New Zealand but were guilty of leaking too many runs against the George Bailey-led side in their first game.
With their backs to the wall against a not-so-fancied Scottish side, England will be looking to put their best foot
forward.
"England don't look as if they'll get out of the group at this stage," said former England captain Paul Collingwood, who has switched loyalties to Scotland since joining their coaching staff.
Scotland, who are hungry for success, have also did not have the best of outings against New Zealand in their first
game in Dunedin, but the Preston Mommsen-led side got some encouragement from their three-wicket loss.
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