Chris Jordan today insisted that England do not need to make wholesale changes to their one-day side despite the huge embarrassment of an early exit from the World Cup.
England will complete their tournament in Sydney on Friday when they face Afghanistan and will be without Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali, who were ruled out after scans this morning confirmed injuries to the third left metatarsal and left side respectively.
Jordan, who was recalled for the 15-run loss to Bangladesh in Adelaide on Monday, said that the squad were “gutted” by their failure to reach the quarter-finals and described the mood in the dressing room as angry immediately after the defeat.
“There is loads of talent not just in that dressing-room but in the whole of England,” the all-rounder, 26, said. “We have beaten some good teams in the past and we will beat good teams in the future.
“I do not think there needs to be wholesale changes. I can’t put my finger on what exactly went wrong, but hopefully in the future it won’t happen again and we can put that right.”
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He suggested that Peter Moores, the head coach, and Eoin Morgan, the one-day captain, are blameless for the campaign. “Pete and Morgy have effectively had a great partnership thus far,” Jordan said.
“They have prepared everyone as best as they possibly can. We simply went out there [versus Bangladesh] and did not perform as well as we have done.
“Pete, I think, has done a brilliant job. He comes in with enthusiasm every day and gets the boys up for training, gets the boys up for games. It’s just a bit disappointing that as players we didn’t put in the performance we should have done.
“Everyone is gutted, gutted for the fans who came over and the fans at home watching. Friday is just an opportunity first of all to put that right, and get back on the horse and just put in a good performance for England.”
England will be studying footage of the Afghanistan side, who came close to surprising Sri Lanka early in the competition before a hundred by Mahela Jayawardena changed the course of the contest.
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“They don’t have anything to lose,” Jordan, who played in the defeat to Netherlands at the World Twenty20 last year, said. “It is not a game we will be taking lightly at all. We will be preparing thoroughly and looking for weaknesses to attack them.”
He believes that he will be stronger for the experience in Australasia. “It is my first World Cup,” he said. “We’ve had a few lows and you can only draw on those in the future to motivate yourself to get up every morning, to get your body in order and get your game in order.
“If I am still around in 2019 for the next World Cup I will hopefully be somewhere close to the finished article and making sure days like the other day don’t happen again.”