Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Adil Rashid into the attack and delivered a tight over with two runs coming off it. Jos Buttler is going with an attacking field for Rashid with a slip in place as England are in search of another wicket. AFG 42/3 in 12 overs

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Another tidy over from Jofra Archer as only one run came off the over that too through a wide. He has been running riot in this match as the Afghanistan batters have struggled to handle him. AFG 40/3 in 11 overs

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Jofra Archer claims another wicket as Rahmat Shah became his third victim of the match. He failed to handle Archer’s pace and attempted a hook shot but got into an uncomfortable position. Adil Rashid took an easy catch at fine leg as Afghanistan lost their third wicket. AFG 37/3 in 8.5 overs

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Mark Wood is not looking 100 per cent, but he completed his over, which turned out to be a tidy one. He was checked by the physio mid over. He fell on his knees on a couple of deliveries in follow-through. He is walking off the field to get medical attention.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Almost wicket No.3 there for England. Wood bangs the fifth ball of the fourth over in short, Zadran ramps it away behind him, Archer is there at deep third, puts in the dive but the ball just about eludes him. That is all the runs that come in that over though. Zadran on nine off 16, Afghanistan captain Rahmat Shah is the new batter at the other end. He is yet to score a run after facing a ball.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Almost wicket No.3 there for England.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Archer appeals for LBW and the umpire gives it! Sediqullah Atal reviews it. The batter planted is front foot forward, the bat almost trapped behind the pad really. It is pad first, the third umpire decides and ball tracking shows that the ball just about pitched in line. Wickets hitting, slicing the middle stump in half. England flying early here.

Atal lbw b Archer 4 (4)

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gurbaz chops on first ball of the fifth over! Wicket No.50 for Archer in ODI cricket. Full and swinging in, Gurbaz drives to drive but the ball darts in to take his inside edge. It then smashes on to his own stumps. This is a very good start for England.

Gurbaz b Archer 6 (15)

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: No big fireworks in the first three overs. Just two runs off the third over by Archer, both from the batters running two off the fourth ball that Gurbaz sent to long leg. Rashid dove and cut it off and so no boundary there for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gurbaz gets off the mark first ball by guiding it to deep third. Archer goes hard length second ball, then good length third ball which nipped in to Zadran, and then hits the hard length again fourth ball. He strays a bit on to Zadran’s hip, the batter pulls it to long leg for a single. Wide down the leg side next ball and then Gurbaz flicks the last ball to deep backward square leg for another single.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Jofra Archer has the ball in his hands, Rahmanullah Gurbaz is on strike with Ibrahim Zadran at the other. It is definitely cooler today than it was when England faced Australia. Here we go!

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: No changes today for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The only change for England is due to injury, Brydon Carse out for Jamie Overton.

England: Philip Salt, Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith(w), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Jofra Archer, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Afghanistan have won the toss and are batting first in Lahore.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: It is 67 m and 70 m on both sides. The average score is more than 300 in the last 5 games. The wicket is hard. There is grass covering. The ball should come on to the bat nicely. Should be another high scoring game. The ball will come nicely on to the bat. The bowlers will have to hit the 6 and 8m mark. You will have to keep the sticks in play

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: England learnt the hard way that the Lahore pitch is good for batting, to put it mildly. It could be more of the same today and so if Jos Buttler wins the toss, could he choose to chase? We will have to wait for about 10 minutes to find out.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rahmat Shah is now 41 runs away from becoming the first Afghanistan batter to reach 4000 runs in ODI cricket. Rashid Khan, meanwhile, is two away from becoming the first Afghanistan player to reach 200 wickets in the format.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: England are on their worst run in ODIs since 2009. They have lost five in a row now and if they lose today, they will equal the six in a row they lost at home to Australia in 2009. While it is the batting in which the freedom given by Brendon McCullum tends to be most evident in Test cricket, it is exactly the batting that has let them down in at least four of these losses.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Well, not much. They actually gain the opportunity to try their luck more than anything else. If the team that loses today win their next match, then the team that wins today could go through to the semi-finals. That, of course, is subject to whether the team that wins today also wins their final group game or not. On current form, England beating South Africa or Afghanistan beating Australia would both be upsets of equal measure.

What is for sure is that the team that loses are done, their final game will be a dead rubber for them.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Not too many ODIs have been played between these two sides. In fact, just three have been played and all in tournaments. The first was in the 2015 World Cup in Sydney, which England won by nine wickets and the second was in the 2019 World Cup in Manchester, which England won by 150 runs. Afghanistan famously won the third fixture which came in the 2023 World Cup in Delhi by 69 runs.

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Ikram Alikhil, Nangeyalia Kharote, Naveed Zadran

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Philip Salt, Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith(w), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Jamie Overton, Rehan Ahmed, Saqib Mahmood, Tom Banton, Gus Atkinson

Afghanistan vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Both England and Afghanistan are on the brink and it’s quite simple for them, lose today and go back home with nothing. England are going into the match on the back of five consecuttive defeats. Can they reverse this trend agains a dangerous Afghanistan side?