After this terrible World Cup, the England management and players should cop the same flak and anger Yorkshire received from Colin Graves in 2011.

Graves is the chairman-elect of the England camp; Wales Cricket Board and is not shy of making tough decisions. In 2011 Yorkshire were relegated and he was very angry. He publicly castigated the players and coaching staff and said everybody’s job was up for grabs.

The players got it in the neck and all coaching staff jobs were advertised. Three of them lost their jobs and we had a new first team, second team and academy coach. Colin wanted a fresh outlook with new ideas and to give everyone a kick up the backside. I think Colin has to do the same now with England. Peter Moores, the coach, Paul Downton, the managing director, and James Whitaker, the chairman of selectors, have a lot to answer for.

There have to be changes. Our one-day cricket has been very poor for 12 months. Our thinking and planning is way behind other countries. It needs a fresh outlook. We are out of date and some of those in charge have to go.

Moores has never been my choice to coach England. It is not impossible, but I believe it is very difficult for someone who has never played cricket to the highest level to manage an international team. If, like Moores, you have never been in the heat of battle, in foreign countries with hostile crowds playing on unfamiliar grounds when the chips are down and the pressure is on, it is hard to give advice. It helps if you have been a player in those situations. Then you have something to offer young players.

Moores depends too much on facts and figures and data analysis. He is too consumed by the opposition because he has no experience to fall back on in international cricket. Downton should look at his own position. He sacked Kevin Pietersen, appointed Moores and kept Alastair Cook in his job as one-day captain for far too long. He had three big calls to make and he got them all wrong.

I accept England do not have great bowlers or batsmen. We are not blessed with lots of talent, but we do not have bad cricketers. The biggest problem is we are not getting the best out of what we have. The hierarchy running this England team have to take some of the blame. The selection of players, captaincy, batting orders and preparation have been impossible to understand.

If I can’t understand it as an ex-player then the public have no chance of grasping it either. Somebody has to be accountable for those errors. England have to pull people out of their comfort zone. We have far too many working for the ECB on big salaries. Someone has to start pruning it and making sure the people who are getting well paid do their jobs properly.

This is a result-orientated business. If you do not play good cricket, the crowds will not come and the sponsors will not be happy. Colin listens to advice but he is his own man. He will not want to preside over poor English cricket. He did not like it at Yorkshire. He will have to act fast.

The Ashes are looming and the Australians look a good side now with three top fast bowlers in Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. The World Cup is in England in four years’ time. That might seem like a lot of time but it goes quickly. As for the players at this World Cup, they are not as good as some of them think they are.

Most of them have been in denial, kidding themselves that they have been unlucky but it is impossible to be unlucky all the time. Ian Botham said a week ago this is the worst England one-day side he had ever seen. After this latest flop, perhaps he would like to rephrase that. This lot are worse than he thought.

Moores has made mistakes too. Alex Hales went to Sri Lanka as an opener but was dropped during the tour. Gary Ballance was not in the squad in Sri Lanka but he was picked for the first World Cup match against the favourites, Australia, batting in an unfamiliar position at No 3. Ballance for Hales was stupid. He never bats No 3 for Yorkshire, he bats at No 5.

They were bloody-minded enough to keep him on for four matches which made no cricket sense. Steven Finn was kept in the team for too long time. He had lost his pace and accuracy and confidence. Then Hales and Chris Jordan are brought back after not playing for a month for a game we have to win to stay in the World Cup. Eoin Morgan is batting too high at No 5. He is a finisher at the end of the innings.

It has been obvious to anybody who has watched England that Jos Buttler is batting too low at No 7. He should be at five above Morgan and James Taylor. He is a marvellous talent, inventive with great range of shots. He has awesome power and can give an impetus to the innings.

If he gets in, he makes it easier for the other batsmen. If ex-players like me can see this, why the hell can’t the coach, chairman of selectors and managing director? We are miles behind in one-day cricket and the management do not know what they are doing. We have to get our players to play without fear and with some flair otherwise this will happen all over again at the next World Cup.

— The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2015