England v Afghanistan LIVE SCORE, T20 World Cup Tremendous 12: Buttler, Hales off to brisk begin; ENG 27/0 vs AFG

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Mujeeb will get his second over. Hales pulls the second ball behind sq. for 3.

ENG 35/1 in 5 overs vs AFG: DROPPED! Hales will get a life as Qais drops a easy probability at backward level! Hales rubs salt into the injuries by smacking Fazal’s subsequent supply over lon-on for six. GONE! Buttler perishes off the final ball, good catch by Mujeeb within the deep. Dawid Malan is in subsequent.

ENG 27/0 in 4 overs vs AFG: Mujeeb, the PowerPlay specialist, into the assault within the fourth over. Buttler exploits the bigger boundaries and a few sloppy fielding from Afghans to gather a pair every off the fourth and fifth balls. Mujeeb ends the over with a dot.

ENG 21/0 in 3 overs vs AFG: Fazal continues. Two slips in place for each openers. Good begin to the over. Just one from the primary three balls. However Fazal errs in line within the fourth supply, brief and broad, as Buttler slaps it by way of covers for 4 extra. That further slip comes off halfway by way of the over. Not like the English quicks, the Afghan pacers have struggled for management with the brand new ball. 7 from this over.

ENG 14/0 in 2 overs vs AFG: Azmatullah Omarzai, right-arm quick medium, comes into the assault. Alex Hales is on strike. He begins with a large ball. Hales will get a single off the primary respectable ball of the over. Buttler carves one to the deep further cowl fence for 4 extra. 9 from the over together with a few wides.

ENG 5/0 in 1 over vs AFG: Alex Hales and Jos Buttler start the run chase. Fazalhaq Farooqi, together with his left-arm tempo, to start proceedings. Buttler flicks the second ball to the deep sq. leg fence for 4. 5 from the over.

START OF CHASE

AFGHANISTAN 112 all out

Afghanistan have been 90 for 4 and have misplaced six for the addition of solely 32. What a collapse. Credit score to England and Curran, who have been sensible with the ball and within the area. Again with the chase shortly. Stokes and Wooden took two wickets every whereas Woakes grabbed one.

END OF INNINGS

Sam Curran doesn’t get a hat-trick as Ghani swings and misses on the primary ball. However subsequent ball brings a wicket as Afghanistan lose 9. Curran has 4 now. Fazalhaq Farooqi, proper handed bat, involves the crease. Curran clinches a five-for, will get Farooqi caught and Afghanistan have been bowled out for 112. Curran turns into the primary Englishman to seize a T20I five-for!

AFG 112/8 in 19 overs vs ENG: Chris Woakes, bowling the nineteenth, takes a one-handed catch off his bowling to take away Mujeeb. Fareed Malik involves the crease. DROPPED! Alex Hales at backward level drops a tricky probability of Fareed! Three runs and a wicket.

AFG 109/7 in 18 overs vs ENG: Usman Ghani and new man Azmatullah Omarzai have been exhibiting indicators of intent however Sam Curran, again for his third over, eliminates Omarzai, who's caught by Stokes. Subsequent ball, Curran targets new batter Rashid Khan with a bouncer. Rashid, who's hurried by it, can solely pull it straight to the fantastic leg fielder. 3 runs and a pair of wickets from the over. Curran might be on a hat-trick when he comes on for the twentieth.

AFG 106/5 in 17 overs vs ENG: Right here’s Adil Rashid. 9 runs from the over together with a boundary for Usman Ghani. Rashid’s 4 go for 32. Afghanistan’s 100 has come up.

AFG 97/5 in 16 overs vs ENG: WICKET! England have been on fireplace within the area. Buttler dives full stretch, goalkeeper type, to his left and grabs a one-handed stunner. Wooden has his second wicket and Nabi has to go. Azmatullah Omarzai, proper handed bat, involves the crease and will get off the mark with a 4. Wooden bowls out. Excessive tempo and accuracy have been the highlights of his spell tonight. He persistently clicked 150-plus and barely bowled a free ball. Wooden - 2 for 23 in 4 overs. Each ball Wooden bowled right now was above 140 kmph!

AFG 89/4 in 15 overs vs ENG: WICKET! Stokes has one other wicket. Adil Rashid’s flip to placed on a catching exhibition. The ball went excessive up within the air, Rashid saved his eyes on the ball and dived full stretch to complete the catch. Najib falls. Mohammad Nabi, proper handed bat, involves the crease. In the meantime, Usman has pulled a brief ball for 4... the fielder was maybe 20 yards inside, making an attempt to chop the twos. As an alternative they concede a 4. A brace to finish the over. 7 from the over.

AFG 82/3 in 14 overs vs ENG: Usman and Najib are targetting the longer boundaries to transform those into twos. Good operating between the wickets by these two to this point. Mark Wooden, who has returned into the assault for his third over, goes for simply 4. No signal of a second spinner nonetheless.

AFG 78/3 in 13 overs vs ENG: Adil Rashid into his third. Usman and Najib want to focus on a few bowlers if they need their workforce to placed on a problem. Najib exhibits indicators of aggression as he smacks one straight down the bottom for six. He targets the shorter boundary and succeeds. 13 from the over. Fairly first rate for Afghanistan.

AFG 65/3 in 12 overs vs ENG: WICKET! Curran strikes. Ibrahim Zadran holes out to a fantastic catch by Moeen Ali. Curran will get the breakthrough with a cutter. Ibrahim goes for a run-a-ball 32. Najib Zadran is in subsequent. Glorious over from Curran - three runs and a wicket.

AFG 62/2 in 11 overs vs ENG: Rashid continues after the break. 5 singles and a pair from the over. Afghanistan wants a transfer on. England have a stranglehold on the sport.

AFG 55/2 in 10 overs vs ENG: Change of ends for Stokes, who has bowled properly tonight. Stokes bowls a slower ball but it surely’s pitched up as Ibrahim leans into the drive and collects 4 off the third ball. 8 from the over together with a large for top.

AFG 47/2 in 9 overs vs ENG: First signal of spin as leggie Adil Rashid comes into the assault. 5 runs from the over. The Perth wicket could not provide a lot flip.

AFG 42/2 in 8 overs vs ENG: Sam Curran is introduced into the assault. Curran concedes a boundary off the fifth ball. It was a great over up till that time. Curran bowled a slower ball however erred in line as Ghani labored one off this pads to fantastic leg for 4. 5 from the over.

AFG 37/2 in 7 overs vs ENG: WICKET! Hazratullah Zazai is caught making an attempt to up the ante. Credit score to Livingstone, who dives full size within the deep to finish a fantastic take. Second sensible take of the day, after Glenn Phillips’s seize towards Australia earlier right now. Usman Ghani, proper handed bat, involves the crease. Wicket and two singles from the over.

AFG 35/1 in 6 overs vs ENG: Woakes into his third over. Woakes is utilizing change of tempo to maintain the batters guessing. Woakes finds the sting off the fourth ball however Ibrahim is fortunate because the ball flies previous a diving Buttler for 4. 8 runs from the over together with a large.

AFG 27/1 in 5 overs vs ENG: Mark Wooden continues. He's producing critical tempo. 150 clicks. Good strains and lengths as properly. Ibrahim makes use of the tempo of the bowler, of the pitch and marries it together with his timing to tug a brief ball over fantastic leg for six. Some strike that. It went 77 metres. The ball was bowled at 148kmph. 7 from the over.

AFG 20/1 in 4 overs vs ENG: Woakes to bowl a second contained in the PowerPlay. He begins with a slower ball, Zazai performs and misses. After 4 dot balls, Woakes loses his line and size - brief and broad and Zazai cuts it away for 4. Zazai ends the over with a single.

AFG 15/1 in 3 overs vs ENG: WICKET! Mark Wooden is introduced into the assault and strikes first ball! Gurbaz is caught behind, wholesome edge by way of to the keeper. Ibrahim Zadran, proper handed bat, involves the crease. Buttler has two slips. Testing section for Ibrahim, who's off the mark with a trendy drive for 4. Boundary and a wicket from the over.

AFG 11/0 in 2 overs vs ENG: Chris Woakes comes on. Gurbaz on strike. Slip in place. Gurbaz goes throughout his stumps on the third ball, goes down on one knee and flicks Woakes over fantastic leg for six. Good over for Afghanistan. 9 coming off it.

AFG 2/0 in 1 over vs ENG: Zazai will take strike. The highly effective left-hander will face Stokes. There’s a slip in place. Trace of swing for Stokes straightaway. Zazai has taken a single. Gurbaz is on strike. Stokes is getting good carry as properly. Good ploy from Buttler, opening the assault with Stokes. That permits Buttler to make use of Woakes just a little later within the innings. Single for Gurbaz off the final ball.

The Nationwide Anthems are out of the best way. Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz are making their method to the center. Ben Stokes with the brand new ball.

TOSS UPDATE: Jos Buttler has gained the toss and England will bowl first. We are going to convey up the Enjoying XIs for each side shortly.

The main target now shifts to England vs Afghanistan.  It looks as if Chris Woakes is likely to be match to play. 

RESULT: Australia have misplaced the opener towards New Zealand. A convincing all-round efficiency from the Kiwis because the defending champion start the house World Cup with a 89-run defeat. Tim Southee took 3 for six in simply 2.1 overs! That is New Zealand’s first victory in Australia towards the defending champion since 2011.

We're lower than 10 minutes away from toss. Will England waltz to victory or will Afghanistan get their marketing campaign off to a dream begin with a win?

Afghanistan followers queuing up outdoors the Perth Stadium. | Picture Credit score: Getty Pictures

Whereas we await toss right here, New Zealand are throughout Australia in Sydney. Chasing 201, Australia are seven down for lower than 100. Devon Conway starred with the bat for New Zealand with an unbeaten 92.

HOW TO STOP BUTTLER

Leg spin is Buttler’s kryptonite. It’s the one type of bowling towards which he averages lower than 30 in all T20s. So his face-off with Rashid Khan might be essential. Buttler’s go-to shot towards tempo is the ramp and the news, so the pacers might be higher off aiming for broad yorkers as an alternative of bowling straight.

Within the build-up to this sport, English all-rounder Ben Stokes has criticised the “silly” measurement of cricket’s boundary marking sponges after they triggered Reece Topley’s damage which dominated him out of England’s T20 World Cup. In the meantime, Jonathan Trott, the coach of Afghanistan, stated: "There's been many a time that somebody's stood on a rope and finished their ankle, so it isn't simply the froth, the ropes have been there.

"Loads of occasions guys have dived on to the rope and harm themselves whereas in the event that they dive onto the froth I believe that is just a little however truly safer. I believe it is 50-50 actually."

A current T20 series win in Pakistan has boosted England’s hopes after a tricky 12 months in white-ball cricket. In the meantime, Afghanistan’s 2022 Asia Cup marketing campaign confirmed indicators of promise when it beat eventual winner Sri Lanka and Bangladesh earlier than a dramatic, one-wicket loss to Pakistan.