England captain Ben McKinney on their shock ICC U19 Cricket World Cup group stage loss to West Indies

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00:00 And Ben, hard luck for today, but it was a very entertaining match. How do you guys walk off, I know with the obvious

00:06 disappointment of having lost the game, but how do you walk off knowing that you guys got that close?

00:11 I think yeah, it's bittersweet. I think obviously we would have liked 20 or 30 more

00:15 but I thought the way we carried ourselves in that in their run chase

00:19 and getting eight wickets at the end was very good for us and very special.

00:23 Yeah, what was your assessment of today's wicket?

00:27 I think it was a good wicket. I think it might have flattened out, deadened out in the second dig.

00:31 We probably should have got more like I say, but it didn't really spin too much and I thought yeah,

00:37 it was a good cricket wicket. Yeah, good batting as well from Hamza and Noah.

00:41 Do you feel like there wasn't enough support from the rest of the lineup? Yeah, that's an obvious thing, isn't it?

00:48 Obviously we rebuild it pretty well with Hamza and

00:51 Noah.

00:54 Obviously we would have liked another big partnership after that which would have put us in a better position than we were today.

00:59 The Boilers got you guys pretty close and it was quite nail-biting.

01:04 How do you rally the guys to, you know, continue on and to stay confident going forward? I think whoever we play we know

01:12 that if we get upwards of 200, we're always in the game.

01:17 And we've seen from other places that these wickets have fell pretty quickly in clusters

01:21 and I think today was just we fell short and as bad as we know that and yeah, we'll move on with that.

01:27 Thank you so much for talking to us. Cheers.

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