England win toss bat against Afghani

NEW DELHI: England captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bat first against Afghanistan in the World Twenty20 Super en, Group One match here at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground on Wednesday.Teams:England: Jason Roy, James Vince, Joe Root, Jos Buttler (wk), Eoin Morgan (captain), Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Chris Jordan, Liam Plunkett.Afghanistan: Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Noor Ali Zadran, Asghar Stanikzai (captain), Shafiqullah, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan, Amir Hamza, Shapoor Zadran.England have played Afghanistan on two previous occasions at an ICC global event. Their first encounter came at Colombo in October 2012, during the World T20. England won by 116 runs, thanks to 99 not out from 55 balls from the long-forgotten Luke Wright.Their most recent clash was at Sydney in March 2015, in England’s final contest of their miserable World Cup campaign. In a soggy, downbeat affair, Ian Bell signed off from ODI cricket with 52 not out from 56 balls in a nine-wicket win.England lost their most recent encounter with an Associate nation at the World T20, when the Netherlands crushed them by 45 runs in Chittagong.’