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Edgbaston who hosted india and england the highly anticipated contest of this event. So far the biggest of the matches in ICC cricket world cup. India who came into this match unbeaten after thrashing west indies in a one sides contest. England who look to re united after roy was back in the side. England who was beaten down by Australia miserably returned into this game as a must win contest for them. England needed to win both of their remaining matches in order to stay in hunt for the top four. Pakistan, Bangladesh hopes were relying on this match as if England lost this match, Pakistan's chances would have enhanced. Indian team who used their first away colours in this event after it was launched yesterday. England captain morgan decided to bat in a must win game on a flat batting track. The decision to bat proved a strong one as bairstow and roy thrashed indian bowlers all over the ground. Both openers put on 160 run for the first wicket before dangerous roy was dismissed

Lords London Witnessed one of the anticipated contests of this event. Australia and new zealand trans-tasman rivalry relived here again as the last event's finalists clashed in what should be the most fascinated contests. Australia who have already qualified was looking for some momentum to continue in their rivalry with kiwis. On a beautiful day at lords Australia won the toss and opted for batting but literally this decision proved a disaster for them as they lost warner, finch, smith, maxwell and stoinis under 100 runs to have Australia reeling at 92-5, some superb fast bowling by lockie Ferguson, trent boult and jimmy neesham. Martin guptill took a stunning one handed to dismiss steve smith so far the best catch by new zealand side in this event. Usmam khawaja batted superbly along with alex carey who both joined in one of the best partnership in this match. The stand of 107 runs for the sixth wicket proved a match turning one. Usman khawaja went on to make a brilliant

Leeds witnessed the thriller between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pak who came into this match after beating kiwis and south africa previously.  This was pakistan's must win game to remain intact for the race of top four. Opting to bat Gulbadin naib the skipper of Afghanistan started on a positive note smashing fours in starting overs. But Shaheen afridi ripped again the top order to shaken the Afghanistan innings. He dismissed naib and shahidi of successive deliveries to leave then tattering at 27-2.  Rahmat shah played some of the postive shots on a spin friendly track. He soon became the victim of imad on a good 35 runs. Later in the middle part of the Afghanistan innings asghar afghan and najibullah zadran ensured Afghanistan reach a competitive total of 227-9 in their fifty overs. For Afghanistan Asghar afghan and najibullah zadran were the joint top scorers witj 42 each. For Pakistan Shaheen shah afridi was the star with bowl taking up 4-47 also imad and wahab took the coupl