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Watch Highlights: Morgan’s 17 Sixes Help England beat Afghanistan

Watch Highlights: Eoin Morgan hit 17 sixes as England beat Afghanistan by 150 runs on Tuesday in Manchester.

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England and their captain Eoin Morgan re-wrote record books in a scintillating batting display to flatten Afghanistan by 150 runs in a World Cup clash on Tuesday and to zoom to the top of the points table.

Morgan hit 17 sixes in his knock of 148 off 71 balls, the most in an ODI, as pre-tournament favourites England racked up the highest total of 397/6 in this World Cup so far, batting first.

Afghanistan gave a good account of themselves but were never really in the chase, ending up at 247/8 in 50 overs. Hashmatullah Shahidi top-scored for the bottom-placed team, who are yet to win a game, with a gritty 76 off 100 balls with the help of five fours and two sixes as Asghar Afghan, who was dropped by Jonny Bairstow on 28, made 44 off 48 balls (3x4, 2x6) while Rahmat Shah also scored 46 off 74 balls (3x4, 1x6).

Hashmatullah and Afghan shared a 94-run fourth wicket partnership.

For the rampaging hosts, who are now on eight points from five games, Jofra Archer (3/52) and Adil Rashid (3/66) returned the best figures. But it was Morgan's show as he smashed an eye-watering amount of maximums to surpass the record of 16 jointly-held by India's Rohit Sharma, South Africa's A.B. de Villiers and the West Indies' Chris Gayle. Seven of those came off Rashid Khan, who had never given up more than two sixes in an ODI before, and Morgan brought up the record with a trademark straight drive that just reached the boundary rope.

Rashid ended with figures of 0/110 in 9 overs, making it the most expensive spell in World Cup history and the joint second most expensive figures in ODIs overall.

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