109-1 22 overs.
Giving their part timers some stick but ball is spinning, Moeen is playing
Bairstow c&b Gulbadin 90 (Eng 164-2) (29.5 overs)
Morgan tentative, then a no ball free hit and he clonks it superbly for 6 great skill. Next ball bludgeoned over long on for 6.
189-2 off 33
Root spotted stretching his back when he got to 50
Oof
Stunning 6 by Morgan to bring up his 50 off 37 balls should have been caught earlier bad drop.
239-2 off 38.4
And a 6 to bring up his 100 from 57 balls.
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Carnage 159 stand Root only got 39 of them
Root c Rahmat b Gulbadin 88 (Eng 353-3)
And Morgan goes for 148, an innings that contained 17 sixes. So that’s a century - 102 runs to be precise - in sixes. And it breaks Chris Gayle’s record of 16 sixes in an ODI. Bloody hell.
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According to Zaltzmann on TMS, that’s the most 6s hit in any international innings, in any form of the game.
'Stonishing.
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Buttler c Nabi b Dawlat 2 (Eng 362-5)
now comes the inevitable England collapse 
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Stokes b Dawlat 2 (Eng 378-6)
The collapse is on
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And the innings ends on 397/6, with Ali knocking up a gentle 31 not out off nine deliveries. He was probably most peeved that he only got a single of that last ball!
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We might just about defend that total.
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Broken so many records in that innings. Lucky for Afghans the pitch was a bit of a pudding early on
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What a joy to watch the knock by Morgan. World records Most 6’s by a batsman in ANY ODI. Most 6’s by ANY team in ODI’s. Worst bowling figures in ODI’s ((Rashid Khan). Englands highest World Cup stand & score.
But the best bit long term Moeen 31 off 9 balls finally looking like a batsman again Morgan blasted them Moeen clipped them
390 something. Great for NRR as well
Another record
and @Btripz switches the cricket on after lunch and, boom, Archer strikes with his second ball…
4-1 after 1.2 overs
Bairstow shells another one, that’s the second in the innings.
A difficult one to be fair but he should have held on to it…
AFG 160-3 from 34
239 needed from 16 overs (~15 an over)
England’s bowling has been very ordinary today
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Last 10 overs, Afghanistan require 203 runs!!
247-8 England win by 150 runs. Close game that
Archer gets 3 wickets again 3-52 from 10
Rashid 3-66 are the pick nothing for Ali Stokes or Woakes
