\u201cOur partnership has been good throughout the competition and since I\u2019ve taken over,\u201d said Brook, who was named England\u2019s white-ball captain last April. \u201cWe get on very well and the communication has been outstanding. Long may it continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said plenty of times he\u2019s the best coach I\u2019ve ever had. The way he speaks to everybody, he\u2019s got an aura in the dressing room. Everybody looks up to him, the things he did in the game as a player were unbelievable and he\u2019s just carried that into his coaching. The things he\u2019s done over the four years since he took over have changed English cricket for the best. He\u2019s the best head coach I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there is no doubt that England underperformed in Australia, McCullum said the same accusation could not be made of the white-ball side after their run to the World Cup\u2019s last four ended with defeat in Mumbai. \u201cIn the end we came within seven runs of beating a very good India team in their conditions, in arguably the most hostile stadium in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a fine achievement. It\u2019s obviously disappointing we\u2019re not getting a crack at a World Cup final, but there\u2019s a lot to be proud of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m enjoying the role, I\u2019m enjoying it across all formats and I\u2019d love to carry that on. I feel like we\u2019ve made some significant improvements across the various formats. Yes, we\u2019ve missed some opportunities, but I think this team has a real opportunity over the coming years to improve and hopefully finish what we\u2019ve started. I\u2019d love to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brook praised Jacob Bethell, who scored a superb century as England fell agonisingly close to overhauling India\u2019s massive total of 253, as \u201ca phenomenal player\u201d who is \u201cgoing to have a hell of a career\u201d. But he admitted England had been incapable of overcoming the depth of India\u2019s batting resources, or their in-built advantage as hosts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of the way the boys stuck to their guns. They\u2019ve done everything me and Baz have asked of them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be extremely proud of the way we almost chased down 250 on their home turf, with them knowing all the best plans throughout the competition. They just have batsmen coming out of everywhere. They\u2019re extremely good players, clean ball strikers. If you miss you\u2019re going for six or four. Unfortunately, we didn\u2019t execute as well as we could have done tonight and that\u2019s cost us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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