Bar­ba­di­an-born fast bowler Jofra Archer has cred­it­ed Eng­land skip­per Eoin Mor­gan, all-rounder Ben Stokes and Joe Root for calm­ing his nerves be­fore and dur­ing the Su­per Over he bowled to give the hosts their first-ever ICC World Cup at Lord's, Lon­don, on Sun­day.

Speak­ing af­ter he bowled the Su­per Over against New Zealand bats­men Jim­my Nee­sham and Mar­tin Gup­till and guid­ed his team to their first World Cup in the com­pe­ti­tion's 44-year his­to­ry, Archer said he want­ed the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and hoped he would be giv­en the chance by Mor­gan.

“I ac­tu­al­ly went to Morgs first. I had an idea I was go­ing to do it but I want­ed to dou­ble-check that he want­ed me to do it,” Archer said.

“I think it was go­ing fine un­til the six, and then Stokes told me even be­fore the over: ‘win or lose, to­day does not de­fine you. Every­one be­lieves in you.’ To back up what he said, if we did lose there is a T20 com­ing up next year and I would have an­oth­er chance.”

The match end­ed in a tie af­ter New Zealand re­strict­ed Eng­land to 241 all out in their 50 overs, the same score the Ki­wis got but for on­ly eight wick­ets in their turn at the crease. Af­ter both teams al­so scored 15 in the Su­per Over, Eng­land were ad­judged the win­ners by virtue of hav­ing scored more bound­aries - 26-16- in the match.

Archer said some in­spi­ra­tional words from Root al­so helped him to hold off the Kwis charge al­though he was hit for a six by Nee­sham two balls in­to the Su­per Over.

“I knew that if we did lose, it wasn’t the end of the world. I am glad that the guys look up to me and they trust me to do it. The skip­per re­al­ly be­lieved in me, even af­ter the six. A lot of cap­tains could have had their head in their hands, but he was re­al­ly calm and re­al­ly un­der­stand­ing.”

He added, "I can’t stress enough, it was pret­ty lucky to­day. I am re­al­ly grate­ful that we won."

Archer was draft­ed in­to the Eng­land side just ahead of the World Cup af­ter be­ing ini­tial­ly left out the side but has been one of the stand­outs of the World Cup. The 24-year-olds pace, bounce and ac­cu­ra­cy trou­bled the top bats­men at the tour­na­ment.

How­ev­er, Archer, who rep­re­sent­ed the Weast In­dies at the 2014 World Youth Cup be­fore be­ing dropped by the se­lec­tors there­after, on­ly qual­i­fied for the tour­na­ment in the first place af­ter the Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board sud­den­ly amend­ed their el­i­gi­bil­i­ty rules and he qual­i­fied by virtue of his fa­ther be­ing a UK cit­i­zen.

Hav­ing per­for­mance cred­itably in the In­dia Pre­mier League be­fore now, Archer ad­mit­ted yes­ter­day that he could not have asked for a bet­ter start to his in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer with Eng­land.

“I have had the best two months of my life so far – mak­ing my de­but, mak­ing my World Cup de­but, play­ing in the fi­nal in the space of two months. It is re­al­ly spe­cial to me and hope­ful­ly I can look back 15 years down the line and say I was a part of that,” he said.

“I hope that any kids watch­ing that want to play crick­et now for the whole week, for the whole year and try to pur­sue it to be pro­fes­sion­al. We want to in­spire the next gen­er­a­tion be­cause some­one will have to take over from us.”