England bowlers likely to pay price for ODI failure against India

Alastair Cook and co played horribly with bat and ball in Cardiff but Chris Jordan or Ben Stokes may be the ones omitted as the team try to underline it is not what you say but how you play

Match report: second ODI

England played horribly in Cardiff with both bat and ball. In the past the normal reaction of an England hierarchy to such an inept start to a series has been same team, different performance, please. The tendency has been to give an opportunity to those who created the mess to clear it up. In recent years the selectors and coaches have prided themselves on their consistency and their refusal to be deflected.

However, at Nottingham on Saturday it would be amazing if England sent out the same XI to play India, who themselves have lost Rohit Sharma for the rest of this series because of a broken finger. The likeliest changes will come in the bowling department. This always prompts the odd howl of protest from bowlers, who note that they are dropped far more readily than failing batsmen.

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