Our bowling is one of the best : Strauss

Strauss said that the English bowling is formidable, with Anderson, Swann, S Broad, A Shahzad plus Chris Tremlett.

"Our bowling attack has been the basis of a lot of our one-day victories over the last 12 or 18 months".

"We have had a settled bowling unit who really know their roles really well and have bowled very well in tandem together.

"There is no doubt we missed that in Australia and I believe our bowling attack is a match for anyone in the world.

"They should be fit but they need to find some rhythm pretty quickly and the batsmen need to do their job," said the suave left hander.

"The atmosphere at the World Cup is going to be very intoxicating and very motivating. All the best players in the world will be there and ultimately only one team is going to walk away with that World Cup.

"We would have liked to have won the one-day series in Australia as preparation, but some of our players who have not been involved have had an opportunity to have a little bit of a rest through the fact that they were injured."

"They are going to come back into the fold and add a huge amount of impetus."

"We didn't do as well as we would have liked in the one-dayers and we won't hide away from that. Our aim when we went to Australia was to retain the Ashes and the fact that we did that and the style in which we did it speaks volumes for the players.

"But the nature of international cricket is you always move onto the next thing. When we are old and grey we will sit down and look over the footage of that Ashes series and still be very proud of what we achieved.

"It will go as one of the highlights if not the highlight of our careers. But now is not the time to look back on it.