Fletcher focused on Tigers

12 April 2012

England coach Duncan Fletcher is refusing to look beyond his side's must-win World Cup clash with Bangladesh.

England have to beat the Tigers and win against South Africa and West Indies to have any chance of making it through to the semi-finals.

He said: "It's probably going to go down to a calculation but you don't want to go into that in depth - the main thing is to win the next game."

Despite back-to-back defeats against Sri Lanka and Australia, Fletcher believes a top-class display is within his players' grasp.

"We are so close," he claimed. "Somewhere along the line we need the whole side to come together as a unit and everybody to put in a performance that we know we are capable of - and if we do that we know we're a dangerous side."

Perhaps the missing link in England's displays has been the batting form of key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who has scored only 49 runs so far in the tournament and has volunteered for extra practice in the nets to try and drag himself out of his slump.

Fletcher is delighted with Flintoff's contribution with the ball, but admitted: "He's working on a few things at the moment.

"I wouldn't say Andrew feels at the top of his game, which is why he's working a little bit extra on it. He feels there are certain areas that he has to work on in these conditions.

"Against the spinners it's pretty hard with these big outfields because you can't just keep clearing the boundary and ones and twos become important. It's an area he feels he has to work on."

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