Intro:

England's national selector explains reasoning behind Alistair Cook's omission from their 15-man World Cup squad.

Script:

"We felt that his form wasn't representative of what it needed to be to be in the best 15 players available unfortunately for Alistair. That's our feeling."

"We always allow ourselves the opportunity to review every series as we do and it came to his form not being good enough to be in the top 15 players in one day cricket at the moment."

"No, we went to see him. Phoned him up and then just went to see him and had a chat. Alistair Cook still has the whole respect of every England player, every England supporter he should have the respect of. He has carried a lot of pressure on himself this summer and he has come out of it in a Test series having beaten India 3-1. The guy has been a remarkable captain and will be in the future."

"Yeah delighted, he is really happy to try and take this team forward in his style and work with Peter (Moores) and the coaches in a positive way and we are looking forward to him taking the team forward."

Shotlist:

1. 00:00 SOUNDBITE: (English), James Whitaker, England national selector:

Q: Why have we changed Alistair as captain?

2. 00:10 SOUNDBITE: (English), James Whitaker, England national selector:

Q: It seems like quite a late change - he was obviously backed very publicly. Seems like quite a last minute change?

3. 00:24 SOUNDBITE: (English), James Whitaker, England national selector:

Q: Must have been a difficult phone call for you?

4. 00:46 SOUNDBITE: (English), James Whitaker (on Morgan):