Twitter Mocks England's World Cup Exit as Calls for Pietersen's Return Grow

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Story of this World Cup #ENGvBAN pic.twitter.com/XCxiCRlYbf

— Cricketstuff (@Crickstuff) March 9, 2015"

England's Cricket World Cup is over after they suffered a 15-run loss to Bangladesh in Adelaide. 

Eoin Morgan's men can no longer qualify for the quarter-finals despite having one game with Afghanistan left. 

After yet another poor performance, England were hammered on social media—mostly by their own fans and former players. 

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Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

— Ian Botham (@BeefyBotham) March 9, 2015"

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Don't worry.... I am sure some positives will have come out of this WC for @ECB_cricket #MyArse

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) March 9, 2015"

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I'll tell you a great joke The England cricket team

— Daf Green (@DafGreen) March 9, 2015"

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England were pathetic in every game. No idea, no fight, no application, not a clue how to play one day cricket. 😞

— Suraj (@cric_champ) March 9, 2015"

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England's cricketers are a bunch of woeful muppets. Can't remember such a shameful performance from them, which says a lot @ECB_cricket

— Crispian Balmer (@crispiandjb) March 9, 2015"

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Utter humiliation for England cricket. The entire prep and performance woeful. Mgt has to go

— Giles Cooke MW (@gilescooke) March 9, 2015"

Meanwhile, Ireland were enjoying the fact that they had outlasted their neighbours from across the Irish Sea. 

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EXCLUSIVE: England crash out of the Cricket World Cup. Here’s the latest pic from Adelaide: pic.twitter.com/EVXtx5MQpT

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) March 9, 2015"

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#CWC15 pic.twitter.com/Qw6DZNYpjW

— Sean Fay (@Sean_Fay) March 9, 2015"

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England are out - here's a very serious argument to say Ireland are Europe’s best cricket team http://t.co/uwDtW2RJIP pic.twitter.com/zOVouPTBDs

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) March 9, 2015"

They were enjoying it in Australia too.

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Dear #England @ECB_cricket , from #Australia pic.twitter.com/izadWfMRsf

— Andrew B (@LycraJedi) March 9, 2015"

One man was an interested observer.

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I CANNOT BELIVE THIS! I JUST CANNOT! But, well done Bangladesh! You deserved it! #ENGvBAN

— Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) March 9, 2015"

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DO NOT SAY WE HAVENT PRIORITISED ODI CRICKET! We played a back to back Ashes to make sure England played 6 months of ODI's before this WC! 😡

— Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) March 9, 2015"

And plenty of people were calling for his return. 

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Absolute scenes!! Peter Moores, you Sir need to go, Kevin Pietersen, you need to return!! How can the ECB argue that?? #Shambles #CWC

— Nathan Boyle (@17_Hammie_LUFC) March 9, 2015"

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Once Kevin Pietersen was axed from the England Team & rest is history. #ENGvBAN

— Ameer Hamza Ali (@AmeerHumzaAly) March 9, 2015"

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Perhaps now the blind fools running the #ECB will start picking our best players I.e. #pietersen

— DB (@topical_footy) March 9, 2015"

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Kevin Pietersen second highest scorer at the Big Bash. England out at the group stage. pic.twitter.com/pWWwMDWONH

— Callum Shannon (@callumshan) March 9, 2015"

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"If we had a lot of experienced one day players we weren't selecting it would be different." P Moores Kevin Pietersen has played 136 ODIs

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) March 9, 2015"

Grim stuff all around for England fans.

[Twitter]