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Sound the klaxon – we’ve got a MUST-WIN contest on our hands. The equation is simple. Loser goes home. Winner stays on with a shot at the semis to come.
England should win it, really. They’re fresh from posting a monster total against Australia (sure they lost, but that doesn’t mean their score of 365-5 wasn’t sizeable). And Afghanistan, despite all their advances in recent years, were pretty poor against South Africa, stumbling to a 107-run loss in their opening game.
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