The defeat of an Australia inspired by Josh Inglis has not only endangered England's possibilities to progress in this champions trophy, but further threatened his automatic rating for the next World Cup.
The five Wickt that humiliated for its ashes rivals was 17 for Jos Buttler's team since the beginning of a miserable defense of the title of one day in India 16 months ago, more than any other nation in that period.
It gives an additional importance in Group B match on Wednesday against Afghanistan, a match that will surely see that England eliminates if the race continues.
Such a result would reduce the gap between the seventh place in England and the Aghans, a place under them, to 89-87, and also contains longer-term repercussions for the international classification of a day, with the country trained by Jonathan Trott, then guaranteed. To overcome them when the ICC applies an annual update to the table on May 1.
And with only the eight best nations at the beginning of 2027, with a discount of the hosts of South Africa and Zimbabwe, guaranteed the passage of the tournament itself, it would let the Buttler team face a fight to avoid getting lost.
According to the CPI points system, when there is a recalculation that produces a 100 percent weighting to the results of the previous 12 months, 50 percent for the previous two years and those of 36-48 months ago They eliminate.
England lost its first game of the Champions 2025 trophy, for five Wickts against Australia
A defeat against Afghanistan could make it difficult for England to qualify for the World Cup
That is bad news for England since they have lost nine of 12 in the current year while winning the five of their 50 internationals on May 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan and Western Indies, another side that root them in the classification, are about to throw negative sequences and have positive valued at 100 percent.
The Western Indies, who know everything about the ignominy of being forced to a classification competition as former winners, after missing the 2023 edition, faces England in a series of three games this summer.