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'Sombre Dressing Room...' - England Coach Cuts A Sorry Figure Amidst Disastrous Run

image-lo8ag4h8England are going through a disastrous run 

England head coach Matthew Mott expressed his disappointment and frustration as the defending champions stepped one point closer to an early exit from the ICC World Cup 2023 on Thursday (October 26). Despite entering the tournament with heavy expectations, England suffered their fourth loss in five league matches to Sri Lanka in Bangalore. 

It a disastrous performance that summed by England's struggles as an overly explosive batting unit, which plies its trade under the pressure of requiring significantly above-par scores for a bowling unit short of depth and substantial skill. They were bundled out for 156 inside 34 overs after opting to bat first before losing the game with eight wickets and nearly 25 overs remaining for Sri Lanka. 

England's NRR suffered a body blow after their second consecutive heavy defeat of the tournament, having earlier gone down to South Africa by a margin of 229 runs. The Three Lions butchered the Bangla Tigers in Dharamshala but have lost to New Zealand, Afghanistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka either side of it. 



England Coach Speaks On England's Disastrous Run 

Standing on the brink of elimination, Mott said it's a "sombre"  looking dressing room for England right now as they try to come up with answers for such a lacklustre showing and hope to salvage something out of the disastrous campaign in the coming weeks. 

"It's going to be a very sombre dressing room tonight. We came here full of hope and hoping to turn things around and we were well off the mark and it's going to be a real test of character to get through the next few weeks and make sure that we can salvage something out of this campaign," Mott said. 

Mott also defended England's strategical changes in the last few matches and called for collective responsibility to be taken inside the changing room rather than pointing fingers at individual players and blaming them for the calamity, for if at all there is still light in the tunnel, England will have to live to fight for it from the next match against India on Sunday (October 29). 

"I think it's a collective and we've all got to take responsibility for the sub-par effort in this campaign, and everyone's going to come from the hills to dissect what we've done wrong," Mott said.

"But we'll make sure we find some positives, we learn from it - I think we can, I think we can we can get better in everything that we do, whether it is selection, whether it is the way we prepare, and make sure that this is not wasted, because it's going to hurt a lot," he added.