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We were very bad, inexperienced and immature from my side and from all the batsmen, Afridi told reporters. I think we played very bad cricket.

It will be a big challenge to compete in the one-dayers, but we have some time, he added. Me, my coach (Waqar Younis) and the team, we will sit together and talk.

Afridi said off-field problems could not account for Pakistans form.

We are coming through a bad situation, but as professionals we should take that from our mind and focus on our cricket.

At this stage I know our morale is very down. It is down day by day, and game by game. But one victory and it will be very high.

I just want one victory. Im not letting my team down like this, not in the one-dayers, Afridi added.

But he conceded the loss of the suspended trio had hit Pakistan hard.

I made some plans as a captain, I knew Salman Butt was my opener and key player, and Asif and Amir. Everything has changed as a captain for me, but inshallah (God willing) I will bring my team up.

England Twenty20 captain Paul Collingwood reckoned his side was on a roll but was cautious in reading too much into it.

In this form of the game it can be tough to win consecutively, said England Twenty20 captain Paul Collingwood.

It just takes one performance from the opposition to take it away from you. To have that World Cup, you can have added pressure on you as well. But the way weve played over the last two games, the boys are enjoying that added pressure, added Collingwood.

They tried to come hard at us today (Tuesday) -- you could sense that was their approach -- but we kept taking wickets and really applying the pressure, signed off Coll

Source: ICC