Players Haven't Performed - DOWNTON :

Paul Downton has wanted to distance himself from England's dismal performance within the tournament, insistence that "it's not American state within the dressing room":

Downton, the MD of European country cricket, prompt the players had to hold the majority of the responsibility for England's early exit, however pleaded for longer before the management team were judged, claiming they hereditary a team in transition.

And whereas he aforesaid it had been too early to ensure that the coach, Peter Moores, would keep his job, Downton did state that he had no intentions to sack the person he known as "the best coach of his generation" once he appointed him but a year past.


Ultimately all performance comes all the way down to the players," Downton aforesaid. "No one else will score runs or take wickets and plenty of players are discomfited that they haven't performed as they recognize they will be.

Peter was appointed solely ten months past. Whoever was appointed thereto position was invariably planning to have to a small degree of employment. We're within the middle of a really important reconstruction phase; we tend to offered six new central contracts throughout the summer.


"I'm not spoken communication everybody's job is safe and i am not spoken communication that everyone goes to be ravaged. It feels like, from your perspective, there must be a scapegoat; there must be a target.

All i am spoken communication is we're during a position wherever we're a transitioning facet which can take time. we've got to require the proper selections to make sure we tend to try this as quickly and swimmingly as we are able to. however it's too early to mention however in terms of something definitive - to mention he is going or he isn't going.

As so much as Peter Moores' ability cares, I still feel he's a really high-quality coach. therefore nothing has modified since we tend to appointed him ten months past. you do not become a nasty coach long, however the dimensions of the problems we've got have to be compelled to alter area unit important as everyone has seen."

One of those problems, in step with Downton, is that the lack of domestic cricket compete by those within the European country team. With the aggression of T20 cricket having associate degree increasing influence in ODI cricket, England's players area unit - in step with Downton - at an obstacle as a result of their international schedule permits them few opportunities to expertise domestic T20 cricket.

Look at the totals being scored," Downton aforesaid. "They've gone up considerably. This tournament has been regarding obtaining wickets with the new ball so, if the batting facet will recover and retain wickets at the tip, we have seen many a hundred within the last ten overs or maybe one hundred fifty within the last ten overs.

The impact the T20 game has had on 50-over cricket i believe has accelerated within the last year or 2. Last summer it had been regarding evaluation three hundred. currently it's regarding evaluation 350 or four hundred.


My perception is that what went on within the last year or 2 is that the crossover between Twenty20 and 50-over cricket has accelerated hugely. once you explore our guys, only a few of them area unit exposed to Twenty20 cricket, only a few play within the domestic tournament, only a few play within the international tournaments, therefore the solely exposure they get is taking part in a number of games for European country a year.


We have barely reintroduced fifty over cricket into the domestic programme within the last year. In many ways it's no surprise we've got underperformed.