'They missed an opportunity to get their NRR boost' - Fans question England's approach as they delay win against Afghanistan

England faced Afghanistan in their first group match of the 20-20 World Cup 2022. Both teams played this match on the turf of WACA stadium in Perth. English skipper Jos Buttler won the toss and decided to bowl first. The young English pacer Sam Curran stunned everyone with his stunning five-fer as he scalped five wickets by conceding just 10 runs in 3.4 overs.

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Other than Curran, premier pacer Mark Wood also created history on the day as he bowled all 24 balls of his four overs at more than the speed of 140 kmph. England bundled up the Afghan side only on the score of 112 runs in 19.4 overs.

While chasing the target, England also seemed to struggle as they lost their five wickets to cross the line and chase the target of 113 runs. Even after the five-wicket win of England, the fans came up with their critical opinions on Twitter as England have missed a chance to boost their NRR.

Here’s how fans reacted to England’s win against Afghanistan:

England did win the game but they would be thinking they missed an opportunity to get their NRR boost. Hope that doesn't cause a problem to them in future #ENGvAFG #AFGvENG #T20WorldCup

— Gaurav Jindal (@gj100596) October 22, 2022

Two matches on first day of #T20WC2022 but unfortunately both match one sided no excitement no suspance . #AUSvsNZ #AFGvENG .

I hope next match will be full of excitement..

— Mohd Rizwan (@mhdrzwn) October 22, 2022

Catches save England Ships and Afghanistan again well fought #T20WC2022 #AFGvENG

— Whodo (@guesswho_people) October 22, 2022

#England win but not as convincingly as they would have liked as a combination of disciplined bowling from #Afghanistan and some easy peasy batting from their batters let their NRR not as boosted as it might have been #T20WorldCup #AFGvsENG #ENGvsAFG #ENGvAFG #AFGvENG

— vineet jacob (@JacobVineet) October 22, 2022

There is a lot of positive to take from this game, good luck #AfghanAtalan for the rest of the tournament. #ENGvAFG #T20WorldCup #AFGvENG #T20WorldCup22 pic.twitter.com/8CFJnODtHv

— Javid Faisal (@Javidfaisal) October 22, 2022

Apart from this, the fans also showed their funny side as they came up with creative and entertaining memes following the result of the match.  So, here we’ll also have a look at the top five memes from the match between England and Afghanistan.

Here are the top 5 memes from England vs Afghanistan game:

Warra fifer for sam curran pic.twitter.com/Oq3yGgFmUz

— samia (@notrophiess) October 22, 2022

Sam Curran taking 1st 5fer pic.twitter.com/7XTXlHt4hc

— STON.POST (@ston1post) October 22, 2022

Sam Curran vs Afghanistan today#T20WorldCup #ENGvAFG #T20WorldCup2022 pic.twitter.com/CUanV16eN7

— Anmol Farya (@Anmol_xk) October 22, 2022

Sam Curran is our death bowling solution, ain't he? pic.twitter.com/2SxQItk8dN

— JayGawas (@JayGawas14) October 22, 2022

Dawid Malan just played Bazzball against Afghanistan 🤯#AFGvENG #ENGvsAFG #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/hN8xuxSkbd

— Pakistan_Cric (@pak_cricketX) October 22, 2022

This is what makes cricket the most extraordinary sport in the world.



That is an effort you would see from a goalkeeper in football but instead Buttler has to actually catch it. 🤯#T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/SBoSNXtH3W

— Nikhil Uttamchandani (@NikUttam) October 22, 2022

Speaking of the ongoing match between England and Afghanistan, the English pace attack didn’t give a single chance to the Afghan batter as Sam Curran scalped five wickets by conceding only 10 runs in his spell of 3.4 overs. Other than him, the historic man Mark Wood also scalped two wickets by conceding 24 runs in his quota of four overs. Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes also scalped two and one wickets, respectively.

On the backs of these brilliant performances, England has bundled Afghanistan up only on the score of 112 runs in 19.4 overs.

While chasing the target, England crossed the line in 18.1 overs for the loss of five wickets to register a five-wicket win in their tournament opener of the 20-20 World Cup 2022.