England thrashed by South Africa to leave Cricket World Cup defence in tatters – latest reaction

On the world stage, England’s golden generation were first glimpsed in Mumbai – when, on an astounding night six years ago, they chased down 230 against South Africa to remain alive in the T20 World Cup. Perhaps it was strangely apt that, against the same opponents in the same brilliant ground, England’s golden generation disintegrated. In sport, the sense of an ending is seldom more emphatic than this – an 229-run evisceration.