England are the clear favourite to win this match.
PREVIEW
England will be up against Afghanistan in the 13th match of the ODI World Cup at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on October 15. England have done a decent job so far with a win and a loss each in their two games, while Afghanistan needs to look at their performances and have lost both their matches. They are placed fifth and ninth in the points table, respectively.
England played against Bangladesh in their last match, where Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field. As expected, England was off to a rollicking start as they dismantled the Bangladeshi bowling line-up. With half-centuries from Bairstow and Root while a sensational century from Dawid Malan, England made a huge total of 364 runs. In reply, Bangladesh could never get the start they were looking for as they kept losing wickets one after the other. Eventually, they lost the match by a good margin of 137 runs.
England vs Afghanistan, 13th Match
ICC Cricket World Cup, 15 Oct 2023, Sun, 2:00 PM IST, Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
England
JE Root, DJ Malan, HC Brook, SM Curran, MM Ali, LS Livingstone, Chris Woakes, JM Bairstow, Jos Buttler (C), AU Rashid, Mark Wood
BENCH : Ben Stokes, DJ Willey, RJW Topley, AAP Atkinson
Afghanistan
Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Ibrahim Zadran, R Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Rashid Khan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq
