Afghanistan get their seminal World Cup moment

Rashid Khan stood at the bowler's end with his arms stretched out diagonally as Afghanistan players swarmed him. The inevitability of what the plucky Asian side had just achieved was swirling in the chilly evening Delhi air for quite some time. Yet it was fitting that the alpha of the Afghanistan cricket team was there to lay the final brick. Away at the dugout, Jonathan Trott was engulfed in a warm group embrace by those sporting Afghanistan shirts as Ben Stokes in a fluorescent bib looked on from the adjacent England enclosure.