England eager to avoid Afghan humiliation

Gutted by their humiliating early elimination from the cricket World Cup, England vow they won't take minnows Afghanistan lightly as they seek to avoid even more embarrassment in their final pool game.

Friday's clash at the SCG will merely be an exercise in pride for a humbled England side that have lost four of their five matches.

Heavy losses to Australia, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka were followed by Monday's 15-run defeat by Bangladesh in Adelaide, which ended any hopes England had of advancing beyond the pool stage.

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A 119-run win over second-tier Scotland is the only entry in the victory column for a side that has received a barrage of criticism from the media, pundits and their own past players.

"We want to get back on the horse quite quickly and try and put in a performance that rectifies what we did the other night," England paceman Chris Jordan said on Wednesday.

"That's the only way to deal with it at the minute.

"Everyone is gutted, for the fans that came out here and gutted for the fans home watching, and Friday is an opportunity to put that right."

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World No.12-ranked Afghanistan's only win in five games was also against Scotland. Their first ever ODI against sixth-ranked England will effectively be for fifth spot in their pool.

"They don't have anything to lose," Jordan said.

"We do have footage on every single player and it's not a game that we will be taking lightly at all.

"We go into everything thoroughly, looking for weaknesses and for areas that we can exploit. And we can attack them."

Jordan defended the efforts of captain Eoin Morgan and under fire coach Peter Moores and said the team had been well prepared mentally, physically and technically.

"Pete has done a brilliant job. He comes in in with enthusiasm every day and gets the boys up for training and gets the boys up for games," Jordan said.

"It's a bit disappointing that us as players didn't put in the performances we should have done."

Jordan was adamant English one-day cricket didn't need to be overhauled after another disappointing World Cup campaign.

"There's loads of talent, not only in that dressing room, but in the whole of England." Jordan said.

"We've beaten some good teams in the past and we will beat good teams again in the future, I don't think there needs to be any wholesale changes."