Cricket's failings focuses Lancaster's mind

If Stuart Lancaster ever needed a reminder of just how big a deal September's World Cup is going to be, the failings of England's cricket and football teams on their biggest stage have sent a timely reminder.



The England cricket team were unceremoniously dumped out of the Cricket World Cup by Bangladesh on Monday and their exit was greeted with a great deal of schadenfreude by some with the Australian Daily Telegraph's back page headline reading 'Cheerio Chaps: Poms are Bangers and Mashed'.



The cricket team's failings dovetailed with the England football team's inability to get throug…