On today's edition of The Casual Mankadder, England supporters and websites have finally accepted that their team can no longer reach the semi-finals of the World Cup, something all other cricket watchers worked out two weeks ago. With a week left of the preliminary rounds of the longest World Cup in existence, we discuss the likely semi-final match up rather than wait for the commentators to actually say it.

Following this we have a look at the state of New South Wales cricket, as they find themselves in one of the greatest non-winning slumps in their history, and discuss whether sticking with players despite their wretched form only because of the money and years put into them at junior pathways level is what is causing this greif, or if the talent left in the state just isn't up to the mark.

That's today's talking points on The Casual Mankadder, on the podcast that continues to derive great pleasure from England's pain, Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.