Five things England must do to avoid crashing out of the World Cup | Tim de Lisle


More imaginative selections are required, fielding must be ruthless and Joe Root given a new role

Eoin Morgan is a fearless captain but quite a cautious selector. His response to a limp display against Sri Lanka was to pick an unchanged team. Liam Plunkett, the master of the middle overs, has been sidelined. Tom Curran, England’s most incisive bowler of the past year, has become the invisible man. Either of them would take more wickets than Moeen Ali and probably make more runs than James Vince.

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