Flower keen on England post

Andy Flower is keen on becoming England's permanent coach despite defeat in the Test series against West Indies - and will make a point of ensuring they hit the ground running if he does.

England lost in the Caribbean despite the bold effort to dismiss West Indies at Queen's Park Oval on the final day of the campaign.

"The lesson we have to learn is we have to start a series well," said Flower, who has applied for the vacant head coach position. "We haven't won the first game in a series for a long while and often lost it, so we have to do something about that."

He added: "I don't know why but there must be a reason, it can't be a coincidence after so long.

"Maybe it has something to do with the way we treat periods between series, we will have to look at that.

"Andrew Strauss and I and a few others will talk about that and try to come up with a few answers before the next series."