For a country that gave birth to one-day cricket in the 1960s, England should have had a far better record on limited overs cricket’s biggest stage the World Cup.

On Monday, at the Adelaide Oval, on the best batting pitch in Australia, Eoin Morgan’s team failed to chase down Bangladesh’s 275. English cricket lovers have reached a stage where their three final appearances (1979, 1987 and 1992) mean nothing and rightly so, because they’ve just ceased to be a force. England failed to thrive even when the 1999 World Cup was held in their country. This is their sixth shambolic World Cup in succession.