T20 World Cup: Silverwood and six questions after the WC exit

Q. How was that experience for you; must have been a weird one in many ways?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: To be honest, I've been asked that question obviously a lot in the last few days. To me, it's just another game. That's how I viewed it.

It was nice to catch up with some old familiar faces. Obviously I've still got a lot of friends in that camp. But today was about obviously trying to win and doing all the preparation we had to do to give us the best chance of doing that.

Also a big part of it was watching the team continue to progress and develop the methods of play that they've been doing well over the past few months.

So as disappointing as losing it is today, I saw a lot of character in my boys out there finding ways of getting into the game. And we pushed England.

Q. Did you think you were going to do it there at the end? It was getting quite nerve-racking, wasn't it?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: It was. But you'd have to say Ben [Stokes] had it under control out there for quite a period. If we could have maybe nipped it, got one more wicket there, it would have made things very interesting.

Q. Chris, this is a game to be played on that pitch, was there any consideration to play a third spinner, just given the way it was going to slow up?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: We always had obviously three spinners in the group anyway. And Charith, a good backup there. To go with the extra spinner would have looked very unbalanced. Had it not worked, we would have been stuck. We wanted to make sure we had a bit of variety in the attack as well.

Q. Ben Stokes has had a kind of difficult time with the bat. Got England over the line today. You know all about his qualities. How important is he for England for the rest of this tournament in the knockout stage?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: Firstly, there's a lot of good players in that England dressing room. But Ben has been the talisman over the last few years, hasn't he? I think getting the team over the line will build his confidence. It's all about peaking at the right time, really. So watch his space because you never really know, do you?

Q. Now that you're out of it, who do you think is favoured to win it?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: I think at this stage any team can win, to be honest. See who turns up on the day. Obviously I wish England all the luck. I've got so many old friends in there. But I think it's whoever turns up on the day. There's some good teams in there.

Q. Next World Cup India, friendly conditions, what do you think about that?

CHRIS SILVERWOOD: I think the conditions we’ll be used to. It will help with that. But at the same time, there's things that we have to continue building on.

Obviously fielding, we've just touched on. There's things we need to work on going into that as well. And certainly things we'll be reviewing when we get back, when we sit down, have a debrief, have a look at where we need to improve.