Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): The British national team won the toss and chose to bowl. Afghanistan, who bat at the beginning, scored 284 runs by losing all their players in the last over and set a target of 285 runs for England.
But England lost all their players in the 41st over and could only score 215 runs and could not reach the set goal.
The English team is defending its championship title in this World Cup. The team lost to New Zealand in their first match but after a few days they won by a big margin against Bangladesh.
At the beginning of the game, Afghanistan appeared very strong with the batting of Rahmanullah Gurbaz. But then he lost some players with low scores.
Gurbaz was able to score 80 runs for Afghanistan alone.
England lost two key players early in the second half.
Jonny Bairstow, David Millar, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler, Liam Livingston, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, Adel Rashid, Mark Wood and Reece Topley were present in that match.
The players of the Afghanistan team included Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Heshmatullah Shahidi, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhel, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujib-ur-Rahman, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazal Haq Farooqi.