England greats congratulate Bangladesh on historic win

England greats have congratulated Bangladesh on their historic win at the Adelaide Oval on Monday.

The Tigers knocked England out of the World Cup to reach their first ever quarterfinals in a thrilling Pool A encounter which they won by 15 runs.

Former captain Ian Botham wrote, "Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!"

Kevin Peterson also tweeted after the match.

"I CANNOT BELIVE THIS! I JUST CANNOT! But, well done Bangladesh! You deserved it!"

Former England batsman David Lloyd said: "Bangladesh played really well to get from 10-2 to 275…

He was quoted by Reuters as adding “but at the beginning I had Bangladesh as favourites to win this game, quite simply because I thought they were better cricketers than England -- so it's proved, so it's not a surprise to me.”

England captain Eoin Morgan said: "To lose three wickets in four overs or something, and two wickets in one over, does not help the cause.

"I'm extremely disappointed because within the group there was a lot of belief and expectation to go further than this."

Former England captain Andrew Strauss thought England was far from the world's best.

"The truth is we are not good enough. From 1 to 11 we haven't got the players who can compete with the top teams. We couldn't compete with Bangladesh and we certainly can't compete with Australia and South Africa.

"We have been poor for 20 years in one-day cricket and we will be poor for another 20 years unless we change the way we play our domestic one-day cricket."

Former England captain Nasser Hussain said, "The planning here has been poor and that needs to be looked at. Do we view it as important as test match cricket?

"Would we, before the first Ashes test this summer, change our No.3 batsman the night before? No.

"Would we change our captain two months before? No. But we do it in one-day cricket. So the whole mindset of how importantly we view one-day cricket needs to be looked at."

"But there will be a lot of soul-searching now by the England team and management but clearly, England are not good enough having lost four matches."

Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne also took to Twitter to react.

"England had the wrong team, the wrong style of play and everyone could see it, tonight's result not a shock. I feel for Morgan, coach in trouble,” he said.