BANGLADESH HAVE KNOCKED England out of the World Cup with a sensational 15-run Pool A victory at the Adelaide Oval to make the quarter-finals.
Rubel Hossain was Bangladeshโs star at the finish, clean bowling Stuart Broad and last man James Anderson to seal victory for the Tigers as England finished on 260 all out chasing a target of 276.
Earlier, Bangladesh โ who had been eight for two โ made 275 for seven after being sent into bat, with Mohammad Mamudullah (103) compiling the countryโs first individual World Cup hundred and Mushfiqur Rahim making 89.
England skipper Eoin Morgan, who was out for his fifth nought in his last 11 innings, admitted his side had fell below below standards.
It was pretty poor, to be knocked out of the World Cup is unbelievably disappointing,โ said the Dubliner.
โIโm gutted, weโve struggled and fallen away since we arrived here. We wanted to get to the quarter-finals and from there fight through three games.โ
Defeat meant England โ whose only win at the tournament so far has been against non-Test Scotland โ couldnโt claim a quarter-final place but Bangladeshโs victory saw them into the last eight along with Sri Lanka.
New Zealand and Australia complete the qualifying picture from Pool A for the quarter-finals.
โWe are really impressed by the attitude of our boys. All the boys chipped in,โ said Mamudullah, the man of the match.
โI tried to bat properly. Mushfiqur at the end was the aggressor and it was a good partnership. We thought we might have been 15-20 runs short, but we knew if we could get early wickets we were in. Itโs really special for us.โ
Ireland is the only European team left in it.
Delighted, turning his back on our country.
Youre an ignorant fool.
Ridiculously stupid comment.
Oh, the irony! Ha ha ha!
Paul i think that all the fools are flocking to him and weโre the only ones seeing sense in this idiocracy
โThe English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts.โ
Blame the fatcats that run the game on Eoins decision to play for the neighbourโs ! I will admit I enjoyed watching England fail and Ireland power on ! Test status for Ireland .!!!
Somewhere, Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen (recently sacked England captains) are getting absolutely twisted on a big bottle marked โSCHADENFREUDEโ.
Anyone who slates Morgan for declaring for England is either un-educated in the language of cricket or else a total moron, you choose?
Why? Not being smart but I donโt understand the set up, or benefit to declaring for another nation when your own can compete at the WC also, is it just for money or is there more,?
Itโs because England have test status (can play 5 day test matches like the ashes) while Ireland are only associates (can only play ODI cricket). Ed Joyce did the same thing.
I have no ill will towards Morgan for doing it. Iโve more ill will towards the ICC for being so archaic that they refuse to grant Ireland test status.
He will be in much more money with England. It is also about playing Test cricket which Ireland do not play but will hopefully sometime in the near future be granted the chance to play. Also even at one day level outside of the world cup Ireland rarely play the big teams maybe two or three times a year they would get a game. Apart from that they just play the likes of Scotland, Holland, U.A.E. Etc. So the money in that side of cricket isnโt great. Pretty sure all the Ireland team are now signed to English county sides which is ok money but nothing on the level England would pay.
So he went to play against the bigger sides, which pays more.
I asked Captain Hindsight about Morgan and he tells me Morgan should have quit the England set up at the top after the 2010/โ11 Ashes win and come back to play for Ireland with the hope of still being playing when/if we are allowed to play tests.
To be fair, the Test game is the pinnacle of cricket. Itโs where the big money contracts, the exposure, the big crowds are. The Test arena is where players careers are measured. Any of the Irish players would love the chance to play this โ ideally with Ireland but thatโs not possible at the moment โ and Eoin Morgan was the one that England wanted. I wouldnโt be that harsh on him. The ICC should grant Ireland test status and allow the likes of Morgan and Rankin to come back to Ireland immediately without serving time out of the game.
Itโs one thing to allow people to swap to another country, itโs another to allow them to swap again.
I donโt know the first thing about cricket or how test/associate status is determined, but surely if itโs a case of the better a nation performs, the better chance there is of being granted test status, then the best players should stay and help their own nation achieve that?
But Why can players flit from one country to the next in cricket?
Iโm confused by Englandโs defeat today, my natural reaction is to rejoice at any defeat for that shower. However will the ICC blame the Associate nations for denying them one of their biggest markets in the knock-out stages and see it as proof that their 10 team World Cup is the way to go?
Will the English see our success and poach more of our players, will Balbernie and Dockerill get big offers from county teams this summer?
Or will the opposite happen and the xenophobes in the English media blame Morgan and the other non-Englishmen in the team for the performance and launch a media pogrom?
Bangladesh arenโt an associate.
That said, they are the most recent team to jump from associate status to test status, so the ICC might take it as a warning that if you promote cricket in associate countries and let them make it to test-match level, they might actually get good and remove the teams from the bigger TV markets from the World Cup.
I know Bangladesh are a Test nation but that wouldnโt stop the ICC blaming the Associates as you also hinted. Beat either India or Pakistan and thereโll be no denying that Ireland are in the top 8-10 ODI nations but weโll still be stopped from playing more than a half dozen or so ODIs every year. Thatโs as perverse as the World Cup in Qatar!
Disgraceful individual turning his back on his country, wouldnโt want him back. Hope he enjoys the โunderstandingโ and โsupportโ from his chosen country after this.
sure we wouldnโt have anyone from another country representing
So have you willing Es Joyce to fail then? His century vs Zimbabwe won it for us. He left Ireland and played for England and then came back.
Hope youโre showing the same narrow minded contempt for him as well and booing him when he does well for Ireland.
the best of luck to Joyce and morgan until we get test status this is the way it operates.
Go on Paul Dunne. Nice one. Nailed it with minimal words.
For an English sport youโd expect England to be a bit more of a challenge.. How embarrassing :P
Morgan haters are just idots who obviously do not follow cricket. Should not be criticising a man for wanting to play cricket at the highest level. (Test level not the world cup Iโm sure a lot of people on here wouldnโt know that.) If your gonna slag off Morgan why arenโt you getting at Boyd Rankin as well he did the exact same thing as Morgan and he couldnโt even make it into the England World Cup Squad. We probably are missing him more than Morgan as well. I suppose we shouldnโt be playing Ed Joyce because he turned his back on us and now has come crawling back to play for us.
World Cup quarter finals would be higher standard than the group stages..your argument is flawedโฆ
Itโs still not test cricket, which Morgan has played for England.
India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand โ theyโre the highest level.
England? Not in a long time.
Aside from the persons who see fit to have a go at Morgan, it has to be said that this English one day team ranks up there with the most abject and gutless seen for a long time. A lot of people said that players like Pietersen and Stokes scare the opposition because they can change a game in a flash. Who do they have now? Batsmen who seem to be in a straitjacket and bowlers like Broad and Anderson who are way past their best. And at the helm a coach who is so bad, itโs sad.
At this rate I would back the Aussies to win the next Ashes series 5-0.
Iโm a complete novice here so go easyโฆโฆ.why is it someone like Joyce can play for Ireland, then England and back to ireland? Thanks
Shite sport โฆ. Simple as
Possibly the worst 12 months for english sport in living memory. Worst world cup ever, a failed six nations campaign and now this.