England Failing To Impress

The entire nation had high hopes for England succeeding in the one day series with Australia after their inspirational Ashes victory. We were putting aside the fact that England are notoriously disappointing when it comes to the one day form of the game because we had the momentum.

'Momentum' was the key word in the build up to this post-Ashes series. However as the England team are proving, momentum can't make up for a severe lack of quality within the team.

The one series series started off poorly with both Twenty-twenty games being completely rained off, bar the Australian innings in the first match, but the 50 overs matches was when the real action began and England were going to "send the Aussies back empty handed" according to many fans. But we are still yet to see any 'action' from this specialist England side!

The batting line-up continues to look fragile without Kevin Pieterson with the likes of Ravi Bopara and Owais Shah still not producing the big innings' required from them at this level and the most experience batsman there, Paul Collingwood, doesn't seem capable of hitting it off the square!

I don't think anyone was expecting a fantastic performance from England, due to their poor history in the one day game, but I think we were all expecting a bit more fight and passion coming from this Ashes winning side. The series isn't finished so there is still a chance of saving some dignity, but the fact is that England's performances as of yet have been much like the English summer, disappointing.