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Liam Livingstone insists there are \u201cno rifts in the camp\u201d amid England\u2019s World Cup meltdown, shooting down former captain Eoin Morgan\u2019s suggestion that all is not well within the squad.<\/p>\n

The defending champions have been in dire form since arriving in India, losing five out of their first six group games to lie rooted to the foot of the table.<\/p>\n

No England team has ever lost as many games in a World Cup and with three matches still to play, including rivals Australia next up, there is scope for things to get even worse.<\/p>\n

Morgan, the man who lifted the trophy at Lord\u2019s four years ago and is credited with revolutionising England\u2019s white-ball philosophy, remains close to the dressing room following his retirement 18 months ago and has sparked intrigue with his assessment of their campaign.<\/p>\n

He suggested morale was as much of an issue as form and claimed \u201cthere is something within the team that is definitely unsettled\u201d.<\/p>\n

Livingstone waved away that theory, defending the team spirit amid mounting pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all respect to Morgs, because everybody loves him in the dressing room, that\u2019s completely not true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There’s certainly no rifts in the camp, I can tell you that<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s certainly no rifts in the camp, I can tell you that. It\u2019s not bowlers versus batters: we\u2019re a unit. One thing about unity is you probably get tested more when things don\u2019t go well; it\u2019s easy to say the dressing room is amazing when things are going really well.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing, everybody is working their nuts off trying as hard as we can to turn it around. Things just haven\u2019t really gone our way and we haven\u2019t played as well as we want, pretty much all of us at the same time, which is disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously not easy when you lose so heavily a few times in a row, but the boys keep coming back to training day after day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s probably nobody more disappointed than what we are in that changing room, but everybody is trying to work together to change it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan was commentating for Sky Sports as England crashed to their latest defeat, a 100-run loss to hosts India, and his post-match assessment will make further uncomfortable reading for head coach Matthew Mott.<\/p>\n

The Australian worked briefly with Morgan before he called time on his career last summer, but the latter appeared to suggest Mott needed to take a lead from Test counterpart Brendon McCullum in his dealings with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you sit back and nobody has an answer in the changing room or we can\u2019t explain it (as pundits), you always compare things across formats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be the intangible stuff, the feelings, the emotions. The preparation and the mindset has to change. It has to be tailored for that changing room. Maybe take a leaf out of Baz\u2019s book.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long-term implications of England\u2019s losing streak has become painfully clear over the past 48 hours, with their place at the 2025 Champions Trophy now in danger.<\/p>\n

Qualification for the secondary 50-over tournament used to come via the ICC rankings, but a little-discussed change was made in 2021 to tie it directly to performance at the World Cup \u2013 a shift Mott says he was first became aware of midway through Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

England will need to climb from 10th to eighth to avoid being edged out, meaning they cannot afford to treat their remaining fixtures as dead rubbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is obviously very disappointing, but it gives us something to play for over the next three games,\u201d said Livingstone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Australia are a good team to be facing next. They are someone who, in the World Cups that I\u2019ve played in, we\u2019ve done really well against and they are obviously massive games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a great way for us to start our fightback and hopefully we can turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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