Morgan laments England's 'bad days'

England captain Eoin Morgan has backed the players selected for their disastrous Cricket World Cup campaign, despite declaring they should take full responsibility for the team's poor performances, instead of coach Peter Moores.

Morgan's team failed to make next week's quarter-finals after losing four of their six pool games.

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Their only victories were against associate nations Scotland and Afghanistan and he attributed their woes to not getting the basics right.

"When we've been poor - we've been really poor," Morgan said after Friday's nine-wicket win over Afghanistan at the SCG.

"When you have a bad day, you have to find some way of scrapping or fighting in order to stay in the game but, when we've had bad days, we've been out of the game more often than not.

"We need to get our basics right, things like building innings, creating partnerships and building pressure with the ball."

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Morgan felt the barrage of criticism directed at Moores was unjustified.

"I certainly think it's not fair. All the responsibility should fall on the players," Morgan said.

"It's our responsibility to perform as a side, particularly when we've performed so badly."

Morgan insisted England had picked the right players for the tournament and that they hadn't been in good form and clicked as a team.

"We considered everybody when selecting the squad and I still believe we had the right group of players here," Morgan said.

He said he still had the hunger to be captain in the future and was adamant he would leave the tournament with no regrets.

"Absolutely not - we've given it everything and certainly myself, I have," Morgan said.

Afghanistan coach Andy Moles said he couldn't have asked for more from his players and they would come back stronger as a result of their experiences at the tournament.

He praised the efforts of the four associate nations in the tournament and reiterated his opposition to the proposal to cut the participants at the next World Cup from 14 to 10.

"I think on the whole, the associates have put up a good fist and shown that they've improved," Moles said.

"The performances of the sides this year was better than the last World Cup and from the World Cup before, so I think the trend is going up.

"I think all four sides have represented themselves well and the associate nations, and it would be a shame, I think (if the next tournament had only 10 teams).

"There's a certain mystique about the associate nations playing in this tournament and I think it would be something that would be lost if they weren't given the opportunity to do it again."