Morgan defends England's tactics following shock World Cup exit

England captain Eoin Morgan attempted to defend England's selection and tactics after they crashed out of the World Cup following a 15-run defeat to Bangladesh.

England's disastrous campaign has seen them lose all four of their games against Test-playing nations with a win over Scotland scant consolation and a dead rubber against Afghanistan still to come.

England have been accused of playing an old-fashioned brand of cricket that is holding them back in limited-over games but Morgan insists the humiliating exit was down to performances and not approach.

"To get knocked out of a World Cup this early is unbelievably disappointing," he told Sky Sports.

"We have picked guys who can play a brand of cricket that if we performed we could win this World Cup but ultimately we haven't performed.

It's pretty poor, obviously to be knocked out of a World Cup this early is unbelievably disappointing.

"I'm gutted at the moment. We've struggled and fought away since we arrived here.

"One of our big things was to fight quite hard and to try and get through to the quarter-finals and then from there fight our way through the last three games but obviously that's not meant to be.

"It ultimately comes down to performance and today was an example of where some of our guys performed but we didn't perform as a unit and we've done it for quite a while now.

"Since we've landed in Australia we've tried to address that problem but it hasn't worked.

"Our expectations are a lot higher than the way we've performed so that's extremely disappointing. There'll be an inquest over the next few weeks as to what happened and what went wrong and then we'll go from there."