Nick: "Bracing myself for a bit of a stats-fest. Here's one: we talk about doubling your 30 over score, England 2.42-ed their 30 over score. Dunno where to start with that ludicrous finishing from England."

Harun: "Aren't there laws against this kind of thing?"

Jamie Dow: "What's a par score on this pitch, then?"

dez: "England have still never hit 400 without Alex Hales in the side..."

Philip M McCart: "Keeping under that psychological 400 ... good move."

Kumar Suresh: "Rashid Khan will have better days. Ho is only 20. Has many more world cups waiting for him to express himself. May be this will build his character and make him tougher!! "

Ajit: "I want England to feel the pain of missing out on important points and i wish that it rains heavily in Manchester and the match to be called off"

Steve B: "Vince's contribution was the bedrock of this performance............He laid the platform on which the others fed hungrily! "

2:06pm Well, here it is. The kind of innings that was expected every other day this World Cup. It's taken a few weeks, but boy, if you needed anything to shake you out from the funk of all the rain delays, this did it. 142 runs in the last ten overs. That's how many England got. Morgan, dropped on 28, made 120 off his next 45 balls. He hit 17 sixes, the most by any batsman in an ODI, and fueled another record - most sixes by any team in an ODI. England held that previously with 24. They've hit 25 today. Eleven of those came off Rashid's bowling - yet another six-related record as he got the worst figures in a World Cup. that is the story of the innings. Just some unreal hitting from a team that was going at just above 5 for a big part of the innings. Root with neat little 88 to support Morgan, and Bairstow before him, who made 90, would have been the stars on a normal ODI day. We are beyond normal now. The chase shortly.

400?

cassim: "a certain Mick Lewis will be disappointed that Rashid wont be bowling his full quota of overs, Rashid looked good to grab Mick's unwanted record"

rob: "Found the secret to Moeen's batting - just need to put 350+ on the board and then send him in. Simple! "