It would be good to know what England’s one-day cricket captain Eoin Morgan is putting his money on at Cheltenham this week.

Having backed the wrong horse in choosing England over Ireland at the ICC World Cup, knowing where Morgan is putting his pennies could save the rest of us a small fortune.

But seriously just where failing to qualify for the knockout stages of the World Cup leaves England is difficult to fathom.

It is not surprising that there have already been calls for England’s top brass to essentially rip up the current planning and start again – which has to begin with the removal of head coach Peter Moores and his backroom team.

It is a stance that is difficult to argue against as all tournament long the pundits have been pointing out that the England camp’s approach has been bogged down by slavishly following statistics which have led to a less than expansive approach to the games in front of them.

Given that England’s approach has seemed to hamper the likes of Ian Bell, Joe Root and Jos Buttler rather than enhance their potential to win matches something in the coaching make-up has to be at fault.

In fact the description of England’s tactics being ‘from the dark ages’ has gained plenty of momentum, but surely as in most sports the best thing you can do in times of adversity is go back to basics.

There was certainly very little that could be claimed to be ground-breaking in the performance Bangladesh produced to beat Morgan and Co. – quite simply they played as a team and made the most of a couple of good individual displays.

Let’s face it there was nothing earth-shattering in the way they secured victory by ousting Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson, who both fell to decent length balls bowled on the stumps – not exactly rocket science is it?!

Cycling must finally have got to the point where the only way is up.

Accusations that the sports governing body Union Cycliste Internationale colluded with proven drugs cheat Lance Armstrong are damning enough, for that to be compounded by claims that amateur racers are also trying to enhance their performances by doping is perhaps even more shocking.

The headlines are a little unnerving. ‘Middle-aged businessmen are winning amateur races on EPO’ was a particularly interesting offering.

Apparently you could be sat at work just yards away from someone who has been taking steroids and corticoids, and the guy getting far too familiar with the photocopier could well have over done it on the tetosterone.

Really what cycling needs is for a level playing field to be created, ideally with everyone being clean.

If not then maybe equal amounts of drugs should be administered to the competitors, let’s face it watching an Alpine mountain climb in the Tour de France with everyone on LSD could prove very entertaining.

And if racers are still desperate to get more out of their bikes then maybe they could look to the example of Edward Butler.

Back in 1884 he decided one way to make his cycle go faster was to stick an engine on it and he came up with the Butler Petrol Cycle – hold on there might already be a few sports who have taken this idea on board!