Jaded England need to wake up fast at World Cup

By Amlan Chakraborty

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A jolted England Will Need to shed Their jaded look if They are Thurs Achieve skipper Andrew Strauss' twin target of playing smart cricket and spoiling India's party on Sunday.

The Country Which Gave the sport to the world has Not Been Able Thurs lay hands on the one-day game's big prize despite Reaching Three World Cup Finals and Strauss has Been harping on the need to play "smart"to give them a chance to fix that.

Instead, what They dished out against the Dutch upstarts in Nagpur on Tuesday was as far from smart cricket as Could Be.

Their Pacers were Wayward, the spin attack looked inadequate and the crisis was compounded by Their butter-fingered fielders.

"We got a lot of things wrong with our bowling ... It was a very poor first 50 overs," Strauss admitted.

"We Have to learn pretty Quickly Because we can not do it too often."

Neither James nor Anderson, Stuart Broad nudged really trouble the Dutch batsmen, Least of all centurion Ryan ten Doeschate, the WHO, were quite at Ease Against Them.