England will have to play some of their “best cricket” to come out of the hole they find themselves in following their shock defeat to Afghanistan in the ODI World Cup. England suffered a shock 69 run defeat to the Hashmatullah Shahidi-led side with the defending champions faltering in their chase of 285 at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Sunday.

The win was Afghanistan’s second-ever in a World Cup match and lifted them to sixth position on the points table behind England. On whether, it was premature to say that England’s World Cup defence was under threat, Buttler said, “Yeah. As I mentioned just before, it’s not been the way we wanted to start the competition, but this is the situation we find ourselves in and we’re going to have to play some of our best cricket moving forward.”