Gives them a chance.
If only Englands pathetic lot had the same attitude and application against Sri Lanka.
But they just gave up like a bunch of cowards.
England's 7-11 this World Cup
73/3 vs NZL [20 14 11 15no 13no]
43/3 vs BAN [11 14 11 6no 1no]*
72/4 vs AFG [10 9 20 18 15no]*
100/3 vs SAF [12 10 35 43no absent]
36/4 vs SRL [15 0 14no 2 5]*
*Livingstone made 0, 10 and 1 respectively at #6
no substance in the middle or lower order is the point, and the rather lack bar the cameos from the last pair at the crease of anyone getting more than a cameo 10 or 20 compared to other sides like Holland - 35 from Englebrecht, 23no from Van Beek today, 78 from Edwards and 29 from De Merwe, 23no from Dutt against saffers, 28no from Van Beek vs Pakistan, 30 from Edwards and 29 from Englebrecht against kiwis, 70 from Englebrecht and 59 from Van Beek against Sri Lanka although in fairness Englebrecht is a batsman so dropped into #7 but then is that much different to eg Ali and Livingstone who feature in those England stats, and I don't mean the footnote but the 20 was Livingstone vs NZL
and yes the top 5-6 would be expected to score the bulk of any score but given those are mostly 270+ with current average runs batting first at 289 then you do expect a bit from the lower order sometimes, especially with 7 totals over 350. Not much fight from most of the England order, scoring fast but not biggish seems to be the order of the day, for the tail about the size of it.
