England arrived as the king of white-ball cricket, the reigning ODI and T20 world champion with a squad containing some of the best limited-overs players the country has ever produced.▲Sri Lanka's Dilshan Madushanka (center) celebrates taking an Australian wicket at the ICC Cricket World Cup in Lucknow, India, on Oct 16. The World Cup features the one-day game (50 overs), but the Olympics will feature the shorter Twenty20 format (20 overs). APBut halfway through the group stage of the Cricket World Cup and its title defense is virtually over, with a run of abject, record-setting losses heralding what many see as the beginning of the end of England's greatest white-ball era.How to explain a first-ever loss to Afghanistan? The biggest-ever defeat by runs (229) to South Africa? And, on Thursday, an eight-wicket hammering by Sri Lanka?"I've no clear answer," said Jos Buttler, England's visibly shaken captain.Mathematically, England is not out of the World Cup, yet it needs to win all of
………………………………
