Vaughan - 'We are coming together as a team'

Michael Vaughan - England captain
I said at the start of the tour that we expected to win, but you can't win any game without putting in hard work and getting accustomed to the conditions. You have to give the opposition as much respect as you possibly can. The first two weeks before the first Test, we didn't have too many nets or training facilities because of the bad weather. But I put the 2-0 victory down to all the hard work we did in that period.

This pitch definitely suited our style of play. The wicket in Dhaka was a passive slow pitch, which suited the Bangladeshis better. There was a bit more bounce here and all our four seamers exploited the conditions superbly. There were a couple of injuries which created opportunities for Richard Johnson and Martin Saggers, and Johnson especially has given the selectors a real headache. As for Nasser [Hussain], he showed the kind of character he is. He got no runs in Dhaka and so he put in a lot of hard work between the Tests. He worked on a few technical things in the nets, and it didn't surprise me at all when he bounced back.

Of the ten Test matches we've played this year, we've won seven. So that's a pretty good indication of where we're going. The wins are just starting to come and we have a really tough series against Sri Lanka ahead of us, which will be the perfect test of how far we've progressed. We are coming together as a team and learning to play with each other, although with all the chopping and changing through injury, it has been very difficult to keep the performances up.

Duncan Fletcher - England coach
I'd give this performance about seven-and-a-half out of ten. I just think that through certain periods we didn't quite perform to our potential. In one or two sessions, if we'd really looked at it, we could have played better.

Dav Whatmore - Bangladesh coach
It was certainly a more convincing win for England. They played exceptionally well, although we handed them the advantage a little bit. Obviously we would have preferred to make a bigger fight of it, but when you get a couple of run-outs like that, things get a bit difficult.

It very much becomes a mental game when you are so far behind the opposition by day four. It takes a superhuman effort just to dig in, dig in and dig in. Things like that don't happen very often. It's a very disappointing match for us, but we need support. This is not the time when we need people to say you're terrible. We played nine days of Test match cricket against England. Two of those seven days England dominated, but you couldn't say they dominated on any of the other seven days. I'd rather look at the bigger picture, than take the negative approach.

In my experience in sport, if you are looking to improve from a position of weakness, it is never, ever, going to be a straight line upwards. It is how the team handle this sort of situation in the future that will determine how they shape up. I don't think we should jump to conclusions - I still think the team has done pretty well.

The short-pitched bowling was a good test for our batsmen. I don't think they would have encountered a barrage like this before, on a wicket with a bit of variable bounce. We did pretty well in Pakistan and Australia, and they have some pretty nasty bowlers. But I think it was the variable bounce that was the enemy of the batsmen, rather than the length of the bowling.

Sri Lanka will certainly be a stiffer test for England. I'm sure one or two of their batsmen will be in better nick, but England will give them a good fight.

Khaled Mahmud - Bangladesh captain
People are looking too much at the outcome, but we're really not focusing on that right now. Yes, we lost 2-0 to England, but I think we learnt a lot from it and under the circumstances we didn't do a particularly bad job, at least in the first Test. As for the captaincy, that is up to the selectors. But I would very much like to continue.