England skipper Fran Williams said her squad were "far from our best" successful a dense decision by defending Commonwealth champions Australia.
The Roses opened their run successful Pool A with a 83-34 victory implicit Northern Ireland connected Saturday.
But they were outplayed connected Sunday arsenic Australia cruised to a 66-47 triumph astatine The Hydro successful Glasgow.
"That's not the effect we came for and not the performance," Williams told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"We didn't header good with their physicality. It's truly pugnacious erstwhile a crippled blows retired similar that."
Australia started strongly, racing into an 18-11 pb aft the archetypal 4th and extending their vantage to 56-35 by the extremity of the third.
Sophie Garbin scored 41 goals from 42 attempts for Australia, portion Olivia Tchine was England's highest scorer with 23 from 25.
England look Malawi astatine 14:00 BST connected Monday.
Earlier connected Sunday, Scotland picked up their archetypal win successful Pool B with a 56-47 triumph implicit Wales.
England, who won golden successful 2018, failed to marque the podium astatine Birmingham 2022.
Only 2 of the 12 players successful the squad - Eleanor Cardwell and Imogen Allison - person acquisition successful the Commonwealth Games aft injuries to golden medallists Helen Housby and Natalie Metcalf, who withdrew with a calf injury connected Monday.
Jess Thirlby stepped down arsenic caput coach successful March for household reasons, leaving adjunct Anna Stembridge - caput manager from 2011 to 2015 - successful interim charge.
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