Postpublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 26 October 2023
That's it for today, though. Pretty much it for England's World Cup, too.
What a miserable performance.
Bye for now.
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Defending champions England on verge of early exit after fourth defeat in five games
Sri Lanka win second game to stay in play-off contention
They chase 157 target in 25.4 overs and win by eight wickets in Bengaluru
England all out for 156 in 33.2 overs
Stokes top scores with 43 - only five batters make double figures
Kumara 3-35, Mathews 2-14 & Rajitha 2-36
Stephan Shemilt
That's it for today, though. Pretty much it for England's World Cup, too.
What a miserable performance.
Bye for now.
With or without England, the World Cup rumbles on tomorrow - South Africa play Pakistan in Chennai. If South Africa win that, England and Pakistan can go to the airport together.
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Joe Root is partly correct when he says that England do not play enough 50 over cricket. The main problem is that many of the players do not play enough cricket of all types. The central contracts lead to many of the players being over protected and playing remarkably few games. Last year when Yorkshire were playing a key match to avoid relegation Root himself chose to play golf! Many of the other players came into this World Cup with few recent games behind them. Very rare for so many players to be out of form at the same time but their lack of cricket is the clue to this.
Graeme Hall
As a reminder, England still have four games to play. They have to drag themselves around India for two more weeks. They meet India, of all teams, on Sunday.
More from Matthew Mott to BBC Sport, on whether it's the end of an era: "I don't really make comment on that, it's not for me to say. I've never really thought of it like that even when we were going well, eras is something of a media thing.
"But for us, every time you play a World Cup you know it could be your last, we missed an opportunity here, they don't come along very often, in the last 12-18 months we've done well in the T20 World Cup and we've bombed out here. We need to get better, a T20 World Cup is the next thing on the agenda, from an ICC events point of view, we need to make sure we do our best preparation and hopefully we put in a much better performance."
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When Jos says "you don't become a bad player or team overnight", am I allowed to say, "er, I think you have sunshine"?
G, London
More from England white-ball coach Matthew Mott to BBC Sport: "Yeah, it's over now, I think. I'm not mathematician, but with our net rate and too many teams who are going to take games off each other, we have to come to terms with that from now we're playing for a lot of pride. We've got a lot to do there, we feel like we've let our fans down, our families and supporters and everyone in that dressing room, we haven't put our best foot forward and in professional sport that's what you're judged on.
"We have to use this in a really positive way, I've been part of teams that have won and part of teams that have lost, but when you lose like this it has to sting and has to hurt, but something good has to come out of it. When you hit rock bottom it's an opportunity to take a look at yourselves, take a look at everything you do - how we train, how we pick our teams, everything is going to get pulled apart and dissected. We have to cop that and pick out what's important in that, make sure we put it in a really constructive way and get better."
More from Jos Buttler at his press conference: "In any sport, you can't protect anything, you have to go and create something new. We've touched on experience and having banked stuff before but something we spoke about a lot as a team is that you have to go and create it again.
"You can't rest of your laurels or just to protect an image or protect something as a team. That's why at the very beginning of the tournament, I said we weren't here to defend our title, we were here to start something new and win something.
"Obviously, we're falling a long way short of that at the moment but, as players, we didn't take anything for granted or just think it'll be alright on the night. You don't get to the level like this by thinking like that.
"As players, the schedules are the schedules and we've got a lot of things in our favour. We've got a lot of support from the coaches within the environment, fantastic support from our fans as a country and we've let them all down.
"It's been a disappointing few weeks and a shock to perform as we have with the team that we do have. I don't think there is any blame elsewhere, expect with ourselves, and as captain, you feel that the most."
More from Jos Buttler at his press conference: "Sri Lanka played really well, really outplayed us.
"There were a number of their players who played really well.
"Performance is the obvious thing. A lot of us, including myself, are not performing to the level that you expect of yourself or demand of yourself as an individual.
"There's no golden bullet, that one thing that if we did it then everything is right again. We're just not performing to the level we need and expect to compete and play our best.
"Whoever we play next, we want to focus on ourselves as individuals and as a team. Absolutely keep asking questions to find out what the problems are and try to fix them.
"There is a hell of a lot of pride and a lot of guys who are disappointed with the way they've played. Speaking for myself, you feel that as much as captain. As an individual, you want to perform at your best from here on in in this tournament.
"Whatever happens from here in the tournament, we want to play good, hard games of cricket and play well well, get back to playing the way we know we can.
"It looks like we'll need a few miracles and things to go our way to progress further in the tournament but the games we have left, we want to play the cricket we know we can play."
England white-ball coach Matthew Mott to BBC Sport: "We're gutted. I spoke to you last time when we had our destiny in our own hands. After the first few overs today I thought we were on song, we'd won the toss on a good batting wicket, but we lost our way.
"We didn't do basic skills very well, losing wickets in succession and putting ourselves under pressure. We fought hard, battled and tried to grind to a total, but we were always knew we were a hundred short of putting any sort of pressure on. We came out and had a fling with the ball, but it was going to take pretty much a miracle on that wicket for under that score.
"I think you're always anxious when you're this far out from a final and you have to win every game and you know everything has to come together. We were outplayed today, we turned up with really good intent and we started well and thought we were on our way, but that performance was not where we need to be.
"We've got some serious soul searching to do, we're going to cop it, we know that and quite rightly, we didn't perform anywhere near our level. I still think we have a team good enough to win this tournament, but clearly we haven't put it together when it matters. Unfortunately we're out of form at a very bad time for us."
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England's players have proven they are world class. The only difference between their Test team and the current white ball team is the coaching set up.
Jonathan
Have you seen this yet? Watch it if you haven't. It sums up England's World Cup.
Sri Lanka captain Kusal Mendis: "I think net run rate going up is good for our team. We've done really well, the bowling team did a really good job.
"We have another four games left, I think if we win three games back to back we can make the semi-finals. I think we can do that.
"Kumara did really well today. He's the main fast bowler in Sri Lanka, he bowled really well in his first three overs, he helped us control, I'm really happy.
"Matthews is so experienced, he tells us so many things in the middle. He bowled really well. He plays the situation, I'm very lucky to play with him.
"Today we fielded excellently. Everyone did well. In the next four matches if everyone does the same thing we'll be more confident of reaching the semi-finals."
More from England captain Jos Buttler...
On losing confidence: "There is a lot of really experienced, tough cricketers in the room, who have been through a lot and are confident people.
"They're tough people and you don't become a bad player or team overnight. That's what's so frustrating that we've been so far short of our the standards we set ourselves."
On selection: "I think selection is something you want to be consistent with, build that trust and longevity but selection is not our problem at the moment. Performances have been. Whoever has been in the team, in this tournament has been short of their best."
On lack of concentration: "It's obvious to say that. A lot of the dismissals, you don't see those kind of mistakes from us. We've all been making mistakes, not building partnerships and doing the basics well with bat and ball.
"The biggest thing is personal pride and the way we play as a team. We're not giving a good account of ourselves in this tournament and whatever happens, we want to get back to playing some good cricket."
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Bengaluru
A downbeat Jos Buttler was in his press conference in a flash. He fronted up and took questions, including those about whether he is the right man to carry on.
He says the schedule is not to blame for England's defeat.
More from Jos Buttler at his press conference: "We're a really good team, done a lot of really good things in the recent past in white-ball cricket, 50-over cricket.
"You get on the plane with high hopes and a belief we can challenge for the title so to sit here now after the three weeks which have been is a shock. It's a shock to everyone.
"I'll go back to the changing room and look at the players sat there and think, 'how have we got ourselves into this position with the talent and the skill that's in the room?' But it's the position we're in, it's the reality of what's happened over the last three weeks.
"It's a huge low point.
"You're always questioning, as captain, how you can get the best out of players and get the team moving in the right direction. I have a lot of confidence and belief in myself as a captain and leader - and, first and foremost, as a player.
"But if you're asking if I should still be captain of the team, that's a question for the guys above me."
England captain Jos Buttler at his press conference: "Obviously incredibly disappointing and incredibly frustrating.
"We're not just losing, we're losing by a long way and playing well short of our best. A huge disappointment.
"It's never for a lack of effort, hard work or preparation. Look around the room, it's not a lack of talent. We've got a lot of fantastic cricketers. It's a huge frustration, this tournament has gone nowhere near the way we wanted it to.
"If there was one golden egg that we were missing then you'd hope to see that. But there is no secret, no one else can score your own runs or take your own wickets.
"That starts with the captain and I've been a long way short of my best. As a leader, you want to lead through your own performance and I've not been able to do that.
"You get on the plan to come to India in a really good position as a team, everything going to plan and it's just not worked at all."
Buttler is asked about the schedule and refuses to blame that. He's apologised to England fans.
In fairness to the skipper, he was very honest there.
Steven Finn
Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special
The bilateral 50-over cricket we're playing in the build-up to a World Cup, there has to be a period of time where that takes precedence. Yes, we've had the Ashes and Covid, there's no easy way out of this.
These eleven players have never played together, that rang alarms for me. There was a consistent build towards the 2019 World Cup, bar the anomaly of Jofra Archer, where you thought England would reach the end with the same team they started with. This hasn't been the case for this World Cup.
"That's a question for the guys above me," says Buttler when addressing his future as captain of the England white-ball team.
He says he's determined to remain as skipper.