Bumble blogs from Dhaka where the roads, like England's bowling and fielding, are total chaos.
Bumble reflects on a slow first week at the World Cup
I could describe the organisation of the World Cup in one word: chaos. Or two words: absolute chaos. Or three words: absolute, total chaos.
But you don't expect anything else when you come to this part of the world. I've been over here so many times, that I just let it all wash over me.
For example, I had to travel from India to Bangladesh on Wednesday. It really is no distance at all, but despite leaving at six in the morning I didn't get to my hotel in Dhaka until seven at night. That's 13 hours of travelling.
There are no direct flights and immigration is a total nonsense. The computers don't work, people don't know what they're doing and getting into the country is a complete nightmare.
Once you're in, it doesn't get much better. It's only five miles from the airport to the hotel, but it still took us hours. The roads are chock-a-block with every type of traffic you can imagine. And this is a trip I will have to make more than once in this tournament!
The ticket situation is also farcical. Millions of people want to go to the games and you get queues a mile long for tickets that don't exist. Then you get stampedes and police charging into the crowds with sticks. I'm sure you've seen the pictures on television.
These are things that I've seen before and it's exactly as I though it would be. I tend to get very blasé about the total disorganisation these days.
Getting going
From a cricket perspective, the World Cup hasn't really got going yet. We've seen a lot of one-sided games and it's not very entertaining to watch India rack up nearly 400 and then twiddle your thumbs for 50 overs while the other team loses.
The lesser teams all want a day in the sun, but the tournament is clearly designed to make sure the
best teams get to the quarter-finals. All the minnows can do is scrap like mad to spoil somebody's party. One win makes it worthwhile for them and that's why I'm looking forward to working on Ireland's game against Bangladesh.
It's a game the home side need to win after their defeat by India and the ground will be full of fanatical fans. But the Irish will have nothing to lose and they can play with a smile on their faces.
They'll say that, man for man, Bangladesh have better players but they are a volatile and unpredictable side. If Ireland play their best cricket they have a chance of winning.
Strategy
You never know what can happen in one-day cricket, as we saw with the England v Netherlands game earlier this week. The Dutch got 292 and ran England ragged.
I've never seen this England team play so badly with the ball and in the field and the strategy must be improved. The notable thing for me, as I mentioned several times in commentary, is that nobody was aiming at the stumps.
If you don't do that then you can't get two decisions - lbw and bowled - and that's a mistake, especially against an associate team. You've got to be flexible and versatile, but surely some deliveries have to be hitting the stumps? They'd planned to bowl a lot of short balls, but seem to have become too preoccupied with that
I don't understand why they didn't bowl Ravi Bopara, who is absolutely perfect for these conditions. For me, he's a better bowler than Ryan ten Doeschate, who bowled 10 overs very well.
They also didn't use Jonathan Trott, who kept bowling out in Australia, and yet they turned to Kevin Pietersen. That's an utter nonsense because he doesn't bowl and the other two do!
Against India they need to be more flexible and they need to be able to put people in and out of the attack. The bowling and fielding were embarrassing, but I think it was a one-off. Out in Australia, the batting was the problem and the other aspects of the game were fine, but for some reason that was reversed here
I don't envisage any changes for the game against India on Sunday. You could bring Michael Yardy into the team, but who would you leave out? You can't leave Bopara out and you wouldn't want to leave Paul Collingwood out either.
When you look at the balance of the team you always want 12 in there - and that's been the case in all my years watching and working with England.
Personally, I thought Holland (or whatever we're supposed to call them) had got enough, but England batted calmly to chase it down. What is apparent is that we don't have the power players who can whack the ball for six. We tend to accumulate runs, which is not the way to win a World Cup and I don't think we're even in the top five sides out here.
The positive to take from the game? We scored 296 in less than 49 overs. The negative? We scored them off a terrible Netherlands attack.
They can't afford to make the same mistakes against India.
