Moeen Ali on England’s dismal World Cup campaign: “Didn’t bat, bowl, and field well.”

All-rounder Moeen Ali of England has offered his thoughts on his team’s dismal performance in the recently finished 2023 ODI World Cup in India. As one of the favorites going into 2023, the English team that won the title in 2019 was unable to duplicate its success and ended up finishing seventh out of nine teams with just three wins. This was the poorest title defense in the history of the competition. But a handful of victories in the closing stages of the competition enabled them to guarantee their place in the 2025 Champions Trophy.

Speaking about England’s appalling performance, Moeen Ali, a crucial member of the team that won the World Cup in 2019, said that they struggled to execute the fundamentals in the difficult Indian environment. The 36-year-old continued by predicting a quick recovery.

We performed poorly in the fundamental areas—bowling, fielding, and batting. Furthermore, one gets penalized in a place like India. So that’s what occurred to us. Subsequently, we attempted to perform well, but we were unable to get going due to the added strain of occasionally needing to win badly. It is, therefore, merely one of those. See, we’ve won the previous two World Cups. Every competition is impossible to win.

We still have outstanding players and new, excellent management, and we’ll be back stronger than before, Moeen Ali told News 18 CricketNext.com.

For those who are unaware, England’s woeful performance in the 2015 World Cup served as a reminder that they had previously had an awful World Cup campaign. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) made a bold decision by selecting Eoin Morgan as the team captain following their elimination from the group stage in 2015. As the team’s leader in the white-ball style, Morgan oversaw an incredible turnaround.

Unfortunately, England also joined the likes of previous winners Australia (1987) and Sri Lanka (1996) on the list of reigning champions who were unable to get to the knockout stages of the subsequent tournament. The current ODI team’s poor performance in their recent series against the West Indies—a 1-2 loss—only served to compound their problems.