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Cook added: "Credit to MS, at the end he hits it very well, he's a very hard person to bowl at and he single-handedly got them up to 270, which was probably gettable the way we started. But when you lose 10 for 50 you're not going to win anything.

"Only four of us have played one-day series out here and it's great for the youngsters to get the experience. It will show where they need to improve and we all need to improve as a side.

"We got thoroughly beaten out here but there are quite a few positives, I thought Steven Finn throughout the series has been excellent.

"It's always hard when you lose 5-0 but there are always positives to take from it."

Dhoni added: "It was a very ugly looking wicket and one ball can swing or keep low. It was very difficult to score on so we were fortunate to score 270. 240 or 245 was in our mind and then wait for the wicket to spin.

"I want to stay to the end (of the innings) and whatever is in my area I look to hit it over the boundary.

"It's important to see which bowlers are left and who you can target. After that it's about who can bear the pressure well. I love to stay to the end and I've been supported by the other batsmen."

England coach Andy Flower admitted England's 5-0 whitewash at the hands of India was "a bad setback".

But he added: "Not everything is doom and gloom, our results have shown that in the last couple of years.

"But this is a bad setback for us and we have to go back to the drawing board in terms of playing one-day international cricket in the sub-continent.

"We need time to reflect. I thought we'd learnt lessons from three years ago and put in place training drills which would equip our batsmen to deal better with the conditions out here, but I'm obviously wrong in that regard.

"Our skills weren't good enough and our handling of the pressure wasn't good enough.

"We obviously haven't got the players into a good enough state to deal with the challenges of playing spin, judging length and moving feet."

Flower added: "I think our bowling side has showed glimpses of skill and if there'd been reasonable totals on the board they would have been better at defending them.

"But unfortunately the bowlers have had to bowl to very attacking fields all the time, because that was the only way to win the game because of our under-par totals."

Flower would not comment on a spat between between Ian Bell and Ravindra Jadeja until he had seen the incident.

Jadeja appeared to confront the England player during the post-match handshakes, before walking off.

Flower added: "When you're talking about two proud teams fighting it out with each other you are going to get the odd incident."