England’s Performance Review

Now that England has won the World Cup for very first time, we all would like to see how they prepare themselves to defend it.

The next World Cup 2023 will held in India, here where history suggests England struggled in ODIs.

There overall performance was remarkable in this WC. Their rollicking opening stand allowed them to score freely and post big totals. In the middle they had major hiccup as they lost successive matches to Sri Lanka and Australia. Then they bowled their best in semi-finals v/s Australia, defeating their arch rivals by 8 wkts with 17 overs remaining.

Then the finals came – a match that will remembered for ages!!!. A double tie with England winning the trophy as their tally of boundaries was more than New Zealand.

Overall their bowling was top notch with great improvement in SF and finals!. They had speed with variation, bounce with variable speed, and accuracy with swing and seam movement.

Statistical Analysis

ODIs – 11

Won -8

Lost -3

KPI comparison of (WC-2019) v/s Recent(pre WC -2019)

World Cup 2019			Pre World Cup (in 2019 )
Batting	Bowling	Indicators	Batting	Bowling
40.81	29.13	Avg	47.12	38.71
6.26	5.24	R/o	6.76	6.65
39.10	33.34	St. Rate	41.83	34.94
51.97	48.37	Scoring Rate	54.25	54.57
11.84	8.30	Boundary rate	13.57	12.28
38.36	48.69	L 4	55.19	52.70
47.61	39.60	6 +	21.88	20.03

From above table it is very clear how their bowling improved (6.65 to 5.24)from their previous series played this year. With impressive run-rate and strike rate. It is surprise to note that their batting dropped considerably yet very good enough for ODI standard. Their boundary rate is another that took a dip.

10-over phases

Batting

Here is a 10-over breakdown on their batting and bowling progress. Featuring 6 indicators, including exclusively 6 plus R/o for batting and L 4(4 or less R/o) for bowling.

Here England had a healthy strike rate throughout 40 overs.

Batting	Wkts	Avg	R/O	St.Rate	Scoring Rate	Boundary rate	% 6 + R/o	% < =4 R/o
(0-10)	10	57.70	5.25	66.00	35.45	13.03	44.55	43.64
(11-20)	12	57.33	6.27	54.83	52.13	12.46	49.24	41.95
(21-30)	5	121.40	5.53	131.80	54.32	8.19	39.15	41.88
(31-40)	15	40.87	6.44	38.07	56.57	11.21	45.18	39.93
(41-50)	36	19.39	8.51	13.67	66.46	15.24	64.63	20.73

Batsmen in phases

Phase one was dominated by openers

(0-10)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Bairstow	260	210	34	1	85	3
Roy	179	172	27	1	73	2
Root	142	115	16	0	52	1
Vince	51	40	5	0	19	3
Morgan	19	11	2	0	5	1
1^st Phase	660	548	84	2	234	10

Phase two was dominated by openers and Root.

(11-20)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Bairstow	186	199	22	6	90	5
Root	170	158	15	0	99	2
Roy	149	197	21	7	89	3
Stokes	62	50	5	0	29	0
Morgan	60	33	3	0	21	2
2^nd phase	658	666	69	13	343	12

Phase three was dominated by strong middle players. They lost only 5 wickets.

(21-30)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Root	190	170	9	1	123	0
Stokes	136	94	7	2	60	1
Bairstow	110	109	10	4	53	1
Morgan	79	77	9	2	36	1
Buttler	61	68	6	1	39	1
Roy	43	39	2	0	28	1
Woakes	40	25	1	0	19	0
3^rd Phase	659	582	44	10	358	5

Phase four was where England started losing wickets but their scoring rate and run-rate was good.

(31-40)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Stokes	155	154	16	3	82	1
Morgan	116	127	8	8	55	2
Buttler	114	131	10	3	79	2
Root	92	81	5	0	56	4
Moeen	32	24	1	1	15	2
Woakes	31	24	2	0	17	1
Roy	18	43	2	4	16	1
4^th phase	571	591	45	19	323	15

Last phase is where they had the highest scoring rate, boundary rate and only 20% of those overs were less than 4 runs. In this phase Stokes, Buttler and Woakes occupied most of the overs!.

(41-50)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Stokes	131	169	11	7	87	5
Buttler	67	99	5	4	49	6
Woakes	62	69	3	3	39	7
Morgan	59	121	4	12	44	3
Plunkett	41	62	7	1	29	1
A Rashid	36	44	4	1	24	4
Moeen	35	51	2	4	22	2
Root	26	33	3	1	19	2
Archer	23	13	1	0	9	4
5^th Phase	492	672	42	33	327	36

Bowlers Phases

Bowling	Wkts	Avg	R/O	St.Rate	Scoring Rate	Boundary rate	% 6 + R/o	% < =4 R/o
(0-10)	14	33.36	4.25	47.07	32.02	9.10	28.22	63.73
(11-20)	8	68.38	4.98	82.38	49.17	7.28	36.42	49.17
(21-30)	18	33.61	5.50	36.67	55.91	7.42	42.73	48.18
(31-40)	22	27.59	5.53	29.95	49.77	8.80	42.79	45.52
(41-50)	33	16.39	6.17	15.94	57.03	9.13	50.19	34.22

Bowlers

The first phase had only openers (Woakes and Archer) bowling almost every over!. Moeen and Wood bowled only 1 over.

(0-10)	Balls	Runs	Wkts	R/o	% 3 successive dot balls
Woakes	324	221	7	4.09	22.22
Archer	323	225	7	4.18	22.91
1^st Phase	659	453	14	4.12	22.15

The second phase – had an interesting bowling performance, Moeen bowled accurately conceding only 4.83/over – Woakes and Wood had highest % of 3 successive dot balls.

(011-20)	Balls	Runs	Wkts	R/o	% 3 successive dot balls
Wood	204	162	4	4.76	10.78
Moeen	108	87	1	4.83	4.63
Plunkett	150	127	1	5.08	2.67
A Rashid	72	73	0	6.08	2.78
Root	12	8	0	4.00	0.00
Stokes	84	55	0	3.93	5.95
Woakes	29	19	0	3.93	17.24
2^nd Phase	659	531	6	4.83	6.53

The third phase – The overall rate in this phase had increased to 5.50 – but wickets fell too!. Interestingly boundary rate was very low. Adil Rashid and Plunkett picked maximum wickets

(021-30)	Balls	Runs	Wkts	R/o	% 3 successive dot balls
A Rashid	257	248	6	5.79	5.45
Plunkett	103	79	5	4.60	10.68
Moeen	102	112	3	6.59	6.86
Root	18	13	1	4.33	0.00
Stokes	90	85	1	5.67	5.56
Wood	60	39	1	3.90	8.33
Archer	30	20	0	4.00	23.33
3^rd Phase	660	596	17	5.42	7.42

The 4^th phase – The run-rate didn’t climb from last phase but they manage more wickets, and had few bowlers conceding less than 4!. Interestingly the strategy of bowling spin in this phase hardly worked for other teams!.

(31-40)	Balls	Runs	Wkts	R/o	% 3 successive dot balls
Archer	108	85	5	4.72	12.96
Plunkett	60	54	4	5.40	6.67
Stokes	95	66	4	4.17	13.68
Wood	102	106	4	6.24	8.82
A Rashid	168	153	2	5.46	4.76
Root	24	25	1	6.25	0.00
Moeen	42	26	1	3.71	9.52
Woakes	60	81	1	8.10	1.67
4^th Phase	659	596	22	5.43	8.04

The last phase – In modern day cricket 6.17 in last 10 overs is very acceptable. With striker bowlers conceding less than 6 /over. Here too Rashid made his contribution by conceding less than 5.

(41-50)	Balls	Runs	Wkts	R/o	% 3 successive dot balls
Wood	166	154	9	5.57	5.42
Woakes	97	125	8	7.73	2.06
Archer	142	131	8	5.54	10.56
A Rashid	49	35	3	4.29	4.08
Stokes	36	40	2	6.67	5.56
Plunkett	30	29	1	5.80	10.00
Root	6	9	0	9.00	0.00
5^th Phase	526	523	31	5.97	6.27

Partnerships Avg(Bat v Bowl) with No.century stands(in bracket)

Batting Partnerships –

A perfect list of partnerships – There was always someone building one! There was a score of 300 plus whenever England batted first. With first two wickets building base for huge totals!.

Batting Partnerships against England –

Teams hardly got off to solid start,and only few able to score big total against them. Pakistan(348), Australia(285) and India(306) scored 280 plus.

Batting	WC – Partnerships	v/s West Indies
68.80 (4)	1st wkt	27.40 (1)
63.40 (3)	2nd wkt	39.60(1)
41.40 (1)	3rd wkt	50.60 (1)
49.75 (1)	4th wkt	51.50(1)
41.00 (1)	5th wkt	21.80
21.13	6th wkt	28.40
21.13	7th wkt	11.56
10.00	8th wkt	14.33
6.80	9th wkt	9.50
16.00	10th wkt	4.00

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