Eoin Morgan won the toss and chose to bat first only to put the Afghanistan bowlers at his batsmen’s mercy. Despite losing James Vince early, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow pummelled the opposition and the real hammering started when the skipper himself walked out to the middle. When the southpaw had just arrived, Gulbadin Naib, Morgan’s counterpart, jokingly tried stopping the England skipper from reaching his crease.