Reece Topley bowls a maiden over, maintaining the stress on Ibrahim Zadran. Topley retains his line balanced, giving no room for Zadran to go after. 

matullah Shahidi 1 (3)

Ibrahim Zadran 1 (9)

Woakes makes a comeback after a shaky begin, giving simply 2 runs within the 6 deliveries bowled since then. 

Hashmatullah Shahidi 1 (3) 

Ibrahim Zadran 1 (3) 

Chris Woakes 0-7

Live motion begins with Chris Woakes opening the bowling for England whereas Hashmatullah Shahidi and Ibrahim Zadran going through the brand new ball. Woakes make misses strays down the leg facet and offers a boundary to start out the innings.

England taking part in XI: Jonny Bairstow (w/okay), Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Jos Buttler(w/c), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley

Afghanistan taking part in XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w/okay), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Jos Buttler has received the toss and determined to area first on the Arun Jaitley International Stadium. England have determined to go together with the identical facet because the earlier recreation whereas Afghanistan have made one change leaving out Mujeeb.

There is simply over an hour to go earlier than dwell motion begins on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The toss is scheduled for 1.30pm and the 2 groups will start play from 2pm. England, coming off a win over Bangladesh, might be seeking to dominate their Asian rivals whereas Afghanistan might be seeking to trigger an upset.

England are at present positioned within the 4th place on the factors desk with only one victory over Bangladesh and NRR of +0.553. Afghanistan, however, are positioned within the tenth place with two losses and a NRR of -1.907. 

India are at present the highest ranked facet with three consecutive wins of their three matches and a NRR of +1.821.

England might be seeking to transfer into the highest 4 of the factors desk with a complete victory over the Afghans on Sunday. The English might want to enhance their Net Run Rate (NRR), which was badly dented after they misplaced by 9 wickets to the Kiwis of their opening match. While the defending champions bounced again towards Bangladesh, their NRR remains to be properly beneath a number of the prime groups reminiscent of India, South Africa and New Zealand.

Speaking to SkySports, Woakes stated, “It is an incredibly tough challenge to win in India. Naturally, I think the sub-continental teams will feel more at home with the conditions… That makes it extremely hard for us to knock them off their perch, so to speak. But we have got the squad and the players to be able to compete. People have looked at us for a while and we have had a little bit of a target on our back as a white-ball team, around the world.”

“It is a tough competition to win is not it? Especially here. But we will give it a good crack. We are taking it each game as it comes. Naturally, people have got expectations of us and we have certainly got our own expectations of ourselves,” the English all-rounder added.

Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott on Saturday proclaimed that his group has the power to beat any facet on the world. He stated, “This side (Afghanistan) has got ability to upset any side. I think each game we play we believe we can win but it’s not that we win all those games. Obviously we are disappointed with the Bangladesh game,” Trott instructed reporters on the eve of their third match.

Trott added “I think in the past we have done better. Obviously it was a disappointing performance in the first game. I think with the ability of the side there was little bit of inconsistency but that’s the thing we need to work on…Especially in 100 overs cricket we need to be 70 to 80 per cent right. But going forward in the competition we need to start better with both bat and ball and set the standard of our cricket.”

talking at a pre-match press convention, Root stated, “No, I’ve felt like I do enjoy playing cricket here in India, I think it suits my game quite nicely and I did find that New Zealand series quite strange one you sort of trying to find yourself trying of getting yourself in a position where you’re in a good place,” Root stated.

“Of trying to find something to come to the World Cup with and I think when you get here and you’re in that tournament mentality of this is what it’s about, this is when you need to stand up and deliver, I think it’s a different frame of mind and I think that really helped me coming out here and you’ve got a real purpose to what you’re doing,” Root added

England batter Joe Root has given an replace on the provision of star all-rounder Ben Stokes for the upcoming Afghanistan recreation. To recap, Stokes had missed the primary two video games owing to an damage. 

During the pre-match press convention, Root stated, “Yeah, Woakes (Ben Stokes) on the bus today which is a great sign so I’m sure he’ll enjoy training, seeing where he’s at, and Ben seems to be getting better day on day. He trained really well last night, obviously had a long bat, did his running, seems to be improving, so all good signs ahead of tomorrow.”

“I think he’s just got to be ready to play. Thankfully I’m not in that position anymore. As we all know, we have a team with Ben in it, it’s a lot stronger. But he’s got to be fit to play and we’ll see whether that’s the case for tomorrow, whether it’s the next game or further down the line,” the previous captain added.

The England vs Afghanistan match will air dwell on Indian tv by way of Star Sports channels. Indian viewers may also take pleasure in free dwell streaming of those matches on the Disney+Hotstar app and web site. The match begins at 2 PM.

England: Jos Buttler (c/w), Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (w/okay), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley, Gus Atkinson.

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman, Naveen ul Haq.

England: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Jos Buttler (C & WK), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley and Chris Woakes.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

As per Google’s win likelihood, there’s an 87% likelihood that England might be victorious on this match. As per CricTracker, irrespective of which group bats first, England will win the match. MyKhel calls England “overwhelming favourites” to win this. We don’t count on any surprises on this match. England will dominate and win.

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England vs Afghanistan Live: England have squared off towards Afghanistan in a pair of ODIs, rising victorious on each events. Both these high-stakes matches unfolded throughout World Cup tournaments. Their final conflict occurred in June 2019, the place England dominated with a colossal rating of 397/6, sealing the win by a margin of 150 runs. Back within the 2015 version, England received by way of the DLS methodology by a 9-wicket margin.

England vs Afghanistan Live: With solely a 4% likelihood of rain, the match is unlikely to be affected by it. However, Delhi will get as sizzling as 35 levels with humidity as excessive as 63%.

England: Skipper Jos Buttler has 11 centuries and 25 half-centuries within the 147 ODIs he has performed to this point. He was England’s highest run-getter within the 2021 T20 World Cup. He scored 20 off 10 balls towards Bangladesh and 43 off 42 balls towards New Zealand. He has but to hit a giant rating on this event. The wicket-keeper-batter might select this match to attain that.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the wicket-keeper-batter from Afghanistan, might be explosive when in type. He was the very best scorer for his group within the Bangladesh match and appeared fairly strong earlier than getting out for 47. He scored 21 off 28 balls towards India. He is likely one of the key gamers for the Afghans at the moment. If he scores massive, his group could have an outdoor likelihood towards England.

England vs Afghanistan Live: England and Afghanistan have performed 2 ODIs with one another to this point; England have received each of these video games. The final time they confronted off, it was June 2019, and England scored an enormous 397/6 and received it by 150 runs. The different match was in 2015, when England received by 9 wickets within the DLS methodology. Both the matches have been performed in World Cups.