Andy Flower insists his England side still have plenty of improvement in them, but admits that their ICC World Twenty20 victory will do wonders for their self belief.

"It's borne of hard work and the guys have put in the hard work, both the support staff and the players and now it's starting to bear fruit."
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The England team director watched on as his men beat Australia by seven wickets at the Kensington Oval in Barbados to lift their first ever major trophy.

Skipper Paul Collingwood smacked the winning runs as England completed a superb tournament in which they had been the best team in the Caribbean.

Flower is never one to get too carried away, and he told Sky Sports News that he still wants to see plenty of improvement from his troops.

"There is still a lot of room for improvement for us in all sectors of the game and in all three forms of the game," Flower told Sky Sports News.

Belief

With a Test series against Bangladesh starting a summer that will be aimed at their trip to Australia to defend the Ashes, Flower says the best thing to come out of the victory will be the added self belief within the camp.

"I think one of the greatest things that will come from this win is the self-belief that it will create in our dressing room.

"I don't think that could be a veneer thing, self-belief. It's borne of hard work and the guys have put in the hard work, both the support staff and the players and now it's starting to bear fruit."

Flower was delighted that England continued to play in a new attacking style throughout the tournament, and pointed to Collingwood's leadership as a big influence.

"The guys have played a superb brand of the game, very attacking," he added. "They've showed a lot of intelligence and nous and adapted very well to different conditions.

"Collingwood led the side very well.

"He brought some of that experience over, the Twenty20 experience from the IPL, and he used that to mould a very effective bowling attack into something that restricted sides, attacked at the right times, defended at the right times and were promptly a step ahead of the opposition in a lot of instances."

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