Eoin Morgan has admitted he still isn't sure who will make England's World Cup squad.

Morgan, the England captain, and his fellow selectors, Ed Smith and Trevor Bayliss, will meet on Monday to pick the 15-man squad. They plan to announce it at 9.30am on Tuesday morning.

With England having beaten Pakistan 4-0 to secure an unbeaten run of 11 ODI series (of more than one match) in succession, Morgan feels he has an embarrassment of riches available to him among the 16-men used against Pakistan and described the final decision as "extremely difficult".

But while Morgan knows there will some hugely disappointed players on Tuesday morning, he has urged them to take pride in their achievements in recent years and to remain prepared in the expectation that illness or injury could grant them a reprieve in the coming weeks. England will go into the World Cup as the No. 1-ranked side, having improved immensely over the four-year cycle since the debacle of their previous World Cup appearance in Australia and New Zealand.

"I don't know the 15," Morgan told Sky Sports after the game in Leeds. "Every one of these guys should be proud of what we've achieved so far. The continuous improvement of performances makes the selection meeting extremely difficult.

"But every single member of the 17-man squad here will play some role, due to the nature of injuries and illness and call-ups."

While Chris Woakes, who claimed a five-wicket haul in Leeds, has surely done enough to guarantee his own selection, he admitted he would be nervously awaiting confiirmation of his inclusion.

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"Everyone will be wary of that phone call," he said. "Even if you feel like you've got a good chance to being in the squad, until you hear it from selectors' mouths, it's not quite set in stone. You're still probably a little bit on edge, in particularly with this 16 and 17 players because everyone has performed at some point. It's a tricky decision for the selectors. Everyone will be looking at their phones tomorrow I suppose, if that's when we find out."

Woakes, who revealed his post-wicket celebration was a tongue-in-cheek homage to Sir Ian Botham's celebrations during the 1992 World Cup, also accepts, however, that the competition for places has "driven everyone forward."

"It's certainly driven everyone forward to try and improve," he said. "And to make sure you're on top of your game. Whenever you get the opportunity to bowl in practice, or bat or field, you constantly feel, not like you're on audition, but like it's an opportunity to show your skills. It's certainly driven everyone to try and improve and it's certainly showed in our performances over the series."

"The series went as well as we could have hoped," Morgan agreed. "Pakistan are a strong side and they played some competitive cricket. We've chopped and changed our side a lot but the performance has never been compromised. That emphasises how competitive positions are as well as everyone's hunger and determination to constantly improve their games."

Mickey Arthur admits Pakistan's fielding is a "real worry" going into the World Cup.

Arthur, the Pakistan coach, believes the standard of fielding was the key difference between the sides in the ODI series between England and Pakistan.

But he insists his side are "working damn hard" to improve and felt that Pakistan's batting - they reached 340 three times during the series - gave them "a fair amount of positives" to take despite the 4-0 scoreline. In particular, he felt the introduction of a couple of new players - who hadn't been part of the regime that had worked hard on improving Pakistan's fielding over the last couple of years - might have resulted in the standards dipping.

"Our fielding has been very disappointing," Arthur said. "That's been the massive difference between the two sides. If you look at the games in Southampton and Nottingham, going into the last five overs, it was anybody's game. We competed really well.

"The one difference has been our fielding and that's a real worry for me because we are putting a hell of a lot of effort into it. And there's not a massive amount of reward for us there at the moment. We'll just keep knocking away at it to make sure we get it up to speed.

"We have a couple of new, young players who weren't part of the regime previously. We are trying to bring them up to speed as quickly as we can. It's something that hasn't gone unnoticed with us and it's something we are disappointed about. We need to do a bit of work on that, for sure.

"Fielding is about attitude and wanting to get out there and get it done. Our boys' attitude has been outstanding through this series. They know they've been short in this department and they are not happy about it. They are working damn hard at it."

Despite his disappointment in his side's fielding - and, to some extent - and bowling performances, Arthur remained "very confident with the players we've got."

"We sit here having taken a huge amount of positives out of this series," he said. "I thought our batting has gone to another level. I thought we batted extremely well.

"Our bowling has been average at best and our fielding has been average at best but we've batted really well. People, coming to England, said we were a 280 team. We've dispelled that and that's given our batting unit a massive amount of confidence. I'm taking a fair amount of positives in that department.

"The other thing is we've played against a team who are No.1 in the world in their own conditions. There's not too many teams who will arrive in England as prepared as we are in terms of the competition we've played against and match fitness.

"We've got a couple of days now to regroup, two warm-up games and then we'll go. I'm very, very confident with the players we've got. We need to sharpen up on a couple of disciplines but we'll certainly get there. We'll be good."

While Arthur declined to confirm the make-up of Pakistan's final 15-man squad, he did say that Mohammad Amir was sufficiently recovered from chickenpox to be considered available for selection.

"Mohammad Amir trained yesterday for the first time," Arthur said. "It's the first time he was allowed to train. He had 25 minutes on a bike and then a gym session. He had another one today so, if he's selected, he will be ready to go."

Embattled New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway defended Robinson Cano after the second baseman had another baserunning lapse in Sunday's 3-0 loss to the Miami Marlins.

It was the second time in three days Cano failed to run hard after hitting a ground ball, as the reeling Mets were swept by the Marlins.

On Sunday, Cano failed to run when he hit a grounder that bounced off the dirt behind home plate and rolled a few feet fair. Cano stood at the plate questioning the call while the Marlins completed a 2-6-3 double play.

"I saw the ball hit and it didn't even hit the plate -- it hit behind the plate,'' Cano said. "I thought it was a foul ball.''

On Friday, Cano jogged to first when he grounded into an inning-ending, 1-6-3 double play, and later told Callaway he thought there were two out.

"Things are piling up on Robbie right now,'' Callaway said when asked about Cano's latest bad look. "Come on, let's face it -- the ball lands foul and spins into fair territory. He saw it hit foul, and by the time he looked back up the ball had spun into fair territory and the play was over. Stuff happens like that when things are going bad.''

A day after being shut out on one hit, the Mets dropped their fifth in a row -- shut out again as Marlins starter Sandy Alcantara needed just 89 pitches to throw a two-hitter in a duel with Noah Syndergaard.

The latest unsightly defeat against a team with the worst record in the majors is sure to intensify speculation about Callaway's status as the team returns to New York. The Mets (20-25) have their longest losing streak of the year and are a season-worst five games under .500.

"I understand that everybody is disappointed -- the fans, the ownership, myself, the team -- because this is not who we are,'' Callaway said.

Syndergaard (3-4) allowed two runs in seven innings, and afterward he defended Callaway, who is in his second year as manager.

"I respect the hell out of Mickey,'' Syndergaard said. "It's kind of bull what's going on right now with the speculation that there could be a change, because we're still early in the season and just one small step from putting this all together. It's certainly not on him.''

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- As the Golden State Warriors attempt to become the first team since the 1960s Boston Celtics to go to the NBA Finals for the fifth straight season, Warriors forward Draymond Green said the group is motivated to finish off the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and take advantage of the nine days off before the Finals begin May 30.

"I think it's very motivating for us to try to sweep this series and have that time off," Green said on Sunday. "Obviously we're a little banged up, so nine days off would be great for us. Allow Andre [Iguodala] time to heal, Shaun [Livingston]'s old -- but also allow the possibility of Kevin [Durant] and DeMarcus [Cousins] to get healthy and come back as well. So I think it's very important for us to come out tomorrow with the right mindset. We didn't do that against the Clippers. We extended the series and all of a sudden Klay [Thompson] and Steph [Curry] was going into the Houston series questionable because of some ankle injuries they suffered in series that should have been over. And so we understand that. We got a great opportunity."

Despite the fact that the Warriors hold a 3-0 lead in the series, Green knows the Blazers aren't going to let Golden state roll over them in a potential closeout game. But after coming back from double-digit deficits in the second half of each of the past two games of this series, the Warriors enter Monday night's contest with more confidence than they've had all season.

"We know this team is, they're a very resilient group," Green said of the Blazers. "They're not going to lay down. They have great leadership in Dame [Damian Lillard] and C.J. [McCollum] and they're going to come out and continue to play, and play with the force that they can play with. It's on us to make sure we can play with the right mindset and focus, that we know what it takes to close out a series, especially on the road."

Green, who earned his seventh career postseason triple-double in Game 3 on Saturday night, has been dominant at times throughout the postseason, helping the Warriors come together after Durant suffered a calf injury in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Houston Rockets. Green opened up about just how much his mindset changes when the postseason begins.

"When I finish the playoffs every year I'm exhausted," Green said. "And more so mentally than physically because I view these games like life or death. Like I'll be stressed out the entire playoffs. It's like a life-or-death situation for me. That's how I view it. And so when you have that mindset and you're viewing it that way, it's easy to raise your game because it's bigger than just that particular game. And so there's been times when I'm like, 'Dude, I'm putting too much strain on myself. Too much stress on myself.' And I can't change it because this is the times I live for.

"This is what I enjoy most. This is what you play for, this is what you train for, to be at your best at this time of year, to try to win a championship. And so when you look at it from that standpoint, which is the way I look at it, it makes it a lot easier to step up to that challenge because you're playing for something so much bigger than to win that game."

Green has thrived in the postseason since entering the league in 2012, and like many on the Warriors' roster, he acknowledged the grind of an 82-game regular season is tougher to handle after years of long playoff runs and the stress that comes with them.

"For me personally I kind of view the season in three different parts," Green said. "You come into the season and you're ready to go. In the league, you kind of hit that point of where, 'All right, get me to the All-Star break.' And then you come out of the All-Star break and you're refreshed, and you're ready to go again. And that works and that happens for like two weeks and then it's like, 'Get me to the playoffs.' You feel like you're getting life at each one of those moments. And for me personally once you get that new life in the playoffs, it's the playoffs. If you got to find life again in the playoffs you're going home. And you should. It's the part of the year I love. It's the part where you're playing for all the marbles. If you can't get up for this, what can you get up for?"

Green relayed a conversation he had with official David Guthrie during Game 3 that underscored just how much different the intensity level is when the veteran forward plays for championships.

"I was talking to David Guthrie last night and I felt like he had missed two calls," Green said. "In the beginning of the game I said, 'All right David, you got to wake up.' And he said, 'Draymond, I'm woke. Who can't wake up for this?' I said, 'You're right, but you'd be surprised at how many guys can't. Don't not give yourself credit for big games because everybody can't.' So that's my mindset going into a game. It's like, it's the playoffs. If you can't raise the level now, why do you do this?"

Green also touched upon something he talked about in depth after Game 3: He was disgusted by some of his own actions during the year and has made it a point to be less confrontational after picking up four quick technicals in the postseason. Seven technicals in one postseason results in an automatic one-game suspension.

Green said one of the reasons he decided to tone down his behavior is to serve as a role model for younger kids watching the game, including his own young son. Green had reporters chuckling Sunday while discussing what it's been like to see how his son mimics parts of the game.

"He plays on his little hoop and then stomps around," Green said. "It's like I like the intensity, but slow down, young fella. I realize how impressionable the kids are at the ages they're at. Just really want to be a good example for them, show them the right thing. Like my son was playing, he was shooting and flopping. I said, 'Yeah, you got to stop watching the NBA.' He was shooting and falling on the floor like, 'Oh, Dada, help me up.'"

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard does not want to use his separated rib as an excuse for his struggles in the Western Conference finals.

Lillard confirmed on Sunday that he suffered the injury to his left side when Golden State Warriors center Kevon Looney fell on him during a scramble for a loose ball during the third quarter of Game 2. However, Lillard downplayed the impact of the injury on his performance in the series, which Portland trails 3-0.

"I don't think it's something that's affecting my game," said Lillard, who is shooting 32.6 from the floor and has almost as many turnovers (14) as field goals (15) in the West finals. "It's there, but it's not something that's affecting anything that I'm doing. Obviously you feel it, but that's it."

Lillard has not been listed on the official injury report because there was never any doubt about his availability. Blazers coach Terry Stotts said he wasn't aware of the specifics of Lillard's injury until postgame reports Saturday night.

"I didn't really know much about it until it became public," Stotts said. "Generally when he has something going on, he kind of keeps it to himself, so I would say it's not surprising."

Lillard played with padding on his left side during in the Game 3 loss, when he scored 19 points on 5-of-18 shooting. He did not take any painkillers because he said they "mess with your stomach after the game."

Lillard credited the Warriors' defense for making it difficult for him to get in any rhythm as a scorer. Golden State is frequently double-teaming Lillard and blitzing him on pick-and-rolls, trying to force the ball out of his hands, and he acknowledged that he's been hesitant at times because of the Warriors' coverages.

"I'm seeing Draymond Green, and he's behind that kind of like tracking my movements, so it's like a next layer of defense that I'm paying attention to so whereas like I'm not, I guess, wanting to explode and get around that guy because I see what's waiting for me, and then just the crowd, and put myself in a tough position," Lillard said. "It's tough. They're doing a good job in their coverages."

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Golden State Warriors swingman Andre Iguodala is questionable for Game 4 of the Western Conference finals against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night after an MRI on his left calf came back clean Sunday.

Iguodala initially left Game 3 in the first quarter and was checked out by team medical personnel after suffering the injury. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he isn't sure exactly when the injury occurred, but after Iguodala later returned to the game, he was taken out in the third quarter and did not return. If he can't play, backup swingman Alfonzo McKinnie is expected to get more minutes.

"We'll have to have more minutes from him," Kerr said of McKinnie. "But we're confident that he can do the job."

McKinnie finished with a plus-24 plus/minus in Game 3 and has been part of a trio of bench players, including Jonas Jerebko and Jordan Bell, who have picked up the slack in Kevin Durant's absence. Durant is suffering from his own calf injury and has not played since Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Houston Rockets.

Despite the lingering injuries, the Warriors, who hold a 3-0 series lead, remain confident they can close out the Blazers on Monday night and give their ailing teammates a little extra rest heading into the Finals at the end of the month.

"Injuries are a part of the game," Warriors guard Stephen Curry said. "But we have guys who are capable, can step up, and probably will require Alfonzo having a few more minutes. Jonas, JB playing solid basketball like he did last night. So we'll adapt if we need to. Tomorrow's a big opportunity for us to obviously close out the series, get back to the Finals, and take advantage of the little break to get healthy, get bodies refreshed, and understand how difficult it's going to be to win a championship."

WASHINGTON -- The Chicago Cubs have decided not to move forward with their protest of Saturday's 5-2 loss to the Nationals.

Cubs manager Joe Maddon had argued that Washington reliever Sean Doolittle used an illegal delivery in the ninth inning of the game and said that he was playing under protest. The Cubs then had 24 hours to submit an official grievance to the league, but they decided not to.

The double toe-tap Doolittle appeared to use as he delivered the ball to home plate has been deemed illegal in the past, but umpires on Saturday did not force the left-hander to alter his delivery, much to Maddon's dismay.

"You're trying to delineate what is right and what is wrong. In my mind it wasn't a judgment call. I thought it was black and white," Maddon said Sunday.

Maddon came out to argue after Doolittle's first pitch of the ninth inning -- a strike to pinch hitter Albert Almora Jr. Although the umpires huddled with each other, and then with Doolittle, they sided with the lefty while deeming his delivery OK.

"[Maddon] thought he was tapping his foot, which in itself is not illegal, and this all kind of stems from his pitcher being called on something that was a little bit different than what Doolittle was doing," crew chief Sam Holbrook said. "So in our judgment, Doolittle did nothing illegal at all."

Holbrook was referring to Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr., who was told in the second game of the season that he couldn't do his version of the double toe-tap. Recently, Mariners pitcher Cory Gearrin was also forced to change his delivery after warming up mid-inning. But after some deliberation the Cubs decided not to protest.

"I really didn't anticipate whole lot to be done with it even though I still don't agree with the conclusion because I think it's exactly what Carl did just a different version of it," Maddon said.

"I would not be a good parent had I not spoken up for my guy (Edwards)," Maddon added.

Maddon lodged his protest with one out in the ninth inning. If the Cubs had officially protested to the league and won, the teams would have picked up the game from that point, as Doolittle retired the next two batters to earn the save.

After the game, Doolittle was having none of what Maddon was trying to sell.

"In that moment, he's not doing anything other than rattle me," Doolittle told reporters, according to an mlb.com report. "It was kinda tired. Sometimes he has to remind people how smart he is."

Tom Bosworth leads senior men’s 20km race walk squad to silver in Lithuania

Great Britain took their first ever medals in the European Race Walking Cup when the men’s team claimed silver in the 20km event in hot conditions in Alytus, Lithuania, Ian Richards reports.

Tom Bosworth led the team home with a fourth-place finish, with Callum Wilkinson and Cameron Corbishley producing tremendous last laps to clinch the silver medal from Ukraine and Italy.

Bosworth moved ahead of Christopher Linke during the sixth 1km circuit and held a seven-second lead over the German. At the halfway mark Bosworth had a 13-second lead over the chase pack as he went through in 40:11. Wilkinson had moved up to 13th in 40:51 and Corbishley was in 26th in 42:16, with Dominic King clocking 44.10.

The chase pack had cut his lead to 10 seconds by 14km. Soon after this, Sweden’s Perseus Karlström and Diego García of Spain began to close down on Bosworth.

At the 18km point Russia’s Vasiliy Mizinov (ANA) had passed Bosworth and he was caught by Spanish duo Álvaro Martín and Miguel Ángel López. Bosworth repassed them on the 19th lap.

Karlström pulled away to take the victory in a European lead of 79:54 ahead of Mizinov with 80:18 and García with 80:23.

Bosworth matched his fourth-place finish of two years ago to clock 80:53 and move to the top of the UK rankings.

Wilkinson moved up to ninth, clocking 81:54, and Corbishley moved up to 25th place with a PB of 85:45 which moves him to 17th on the UK all-time list and inside the British qualifying time for the European U23 Championships (86.00). King was disqualified.

“I felt so good today I really thought I would win a medal,” said Bosworth. “I walked 3:57 for the lap they caught me. I rolled my ankle at the point when I was fighting for the bronze medal. I battled back on the last two laps.

“I am gutted to finish fourth again, but the team medal makes up for some of my personal disappointment.”

In the under-20 men’s 10km, Chris Snook was a brilliant fifth, clocking 43:45 for the highest ever finish by a British athlete in that event. The race was won by Italy’s Riccardo Orsoni in 42:43.

Snook said: “Despite being ill recently it is great to finish fifth in Europe. I am a bit disappointed not to walk faster and get the 43:00 qualifying time for the European Juniors.

“My plan was to go with the main pack, but unfortunately I couldn’t quite hold the pace in the second half.”

In the women’s 20km Heather Lewis and Bethan Davies both set of in search of the British standard for Doha of 93:30.

Lewis finished 21st in 97:43, Davies was 25th in 99:02 and Erika Kelly was 40th in 1:47:58 on her GB debut as the team closed in eighth place.

The home crowd went home happy as Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė took victory in 89:48 ahead of Spanish duo Laura García-Caro in 89:55 and Raquel González in 90:17.

In the men’s 50km, France’s world champion Yohann Diniz led from gun to tape to take victory in a championship record of 3:37:43. He lapped every other competitor twice apart from silver medallist Dzmitry Dziubin of Belarus (3:45:51) and João Vieira of Portugal in 3:46:51.

In the first ever women’s 50km, Eleonora Giorgi won in a European record of 4:04:50.

Julia Takacs of Spain set a national record of 4:05:46 for silver, with former world record-holder Inês Henriques in bronze in 4:13:57.

The under-20 women’s 10km was won by Turkey’s Meryem Bekmez in 43:57 ahead of her compatriot Evin Demir in 46:49.

Great Britain’s team silver saw them finish ninth in the medal table overall.