AFG vs ENG Toss Prediction: Who will win the toss in Match 8 of ICC Champions Trophy 2025?

AFG vs ENG Toss Prediction

In what will be a must-win game for both the teams, Afghanistan will take on England in Match 8 of Champions Trophy 2025 on February 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM IST in a Group B clash at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

Both the teams have lost their opening encounters and are now in a do-or-die territory as one more loss could see them pretty much packing their bags and moving towards the exit door in this cu-throat competition.

Afghanistan were outclassed by South Africa when both the sides met in Karachi and they were a given a 107-run thumping. On the other hand, England had their Ashes rivals Australia to face when they played their first match at the Gaddafi Stadium itself and despite putting a daunting 351 on the board, England lost the match with 15 balls to spare as Australia displayed a chasing masterclass.

Toss and Match Results in ICC Champions Trophy

Afghanistan

Toss Result	Outcome
Tosses won	0
Won match after winning toss	0
Won match after losing toss	0
No Result	0

England

Toss Result	Outcome
Tosses won	13
Won match after winning toss	8
Won match after losing toss	5
No Result	0

Afghanistan are playing in the Champions Trophy for the first time, so there is not a lot of numbers to analyze or look at as far as they go. They have thus far played only one match in Champions Trophy where they lost the toss and lost the match against South Africa with a toss win percentage of 0%.

England, on the other hand, have played 25 matches in the history of Champions Trophy so far. In those 25 matches, they have won 13 matches as well as 13 tosses with an equal percentage of matches won and percentage of tosses won, 52%.

However, it does not mean that they have always won every match when they have won the toss. As the table suggests, England have won 8 out of 13 matches (61.5%) when they have won the toss while they have also won 5 out of 12 matches (41.7%) when they have lost the toss.

Afghanistan Toss Analysis (Captain)

In the only 3 ODIs played between both the teams, Afghanistan have never won the toss against England. Both these teams have met thrice, all at the 50-over World Cups from 2015 to 2023, with two of them being in neutral venues while the 2019 was an away game for Afghanistan with England hosting the World Cup.

Category	Total	Won	Lost	Win%
Overall	3	0	3	0%
Home	0	0	0	0%
Away	1	0	1	0%
Neutral	2	0	2	0%

England Toss Analysis (Captain)

England boast of a 100% win record in the tosses against Afghanistan in the ODI format, be it there have been just three matches between the two teams. While two have been neutral venues, in 2015 and 2023 ODI World Cup, England played a home game against them in the 2019 World Cup and won the toss in each of those.

Category	Total	Won	Lost	Win%
Overall	3	3	0	100%
Home	1	1	0	100%
Away	0	0	0	0%
Neutral	2	2	0	100%

Note: Toss Prediction: Above Toss Prediction analyzed from the Last 5 matches.

The above analysis indicated the number of tosses won and lost by the two teams, Afghanistan and England. The percentage shows the toss success rate of both teams.

Today’s Match Toss Prediction

As the ODI history between these two teams suggests, England have been dominant as far as the toss is concerned. The venue for this match, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, will be a neutral venue for both these teams and if we look at the record England have won 2 out of 2 tosses in the neutral ODIs between both these teams. Going with the same trend, England are expected to win the toss in this match.

With cloudy conditions expected throughout the day at Gaddafi Stadium coupled with the fact that Australia chased down 352 against England just a few days back, England would like to bowl first after winning the toss. The dew is expected to play a large part and England will thus be able to chase down the target set by Afghanistan and win the match.

Toss Winner	England
Match Winner	England

Also Read: AUS vs SA Match Prediction: Who will win the Champions Trophy 2025 Match 7?

AFG vs ENG Head to Head 

Afghanistan and England have only played 3 ODIs against each other. All three of them have been in the 50-over World Cups starting from 2015 to the most recent one being in 2023. While England have got the better of Afghanistan quite convincingly on two occasions, Afghanistan got one back on them when these two teams last met in the ODI format in 2023.

The first of those three games were back in 2015, back when Afghanistan was a new-born baby at the world stage and back when Afghanistan did not have their biggest superstar in Rashid Khan and back when nobody knew that Afghanistan would go on to be giant-killers. England brushed them aside in the group stages of the 2015 World Cup and won by 9 wickets in a rain-curtailed game in Sydney.

Next up was the 2019 WC match at Old Trafford, Manchester when England’s white-ball revolution was at its peak at their home. Leading all of it was their skipper Eoin Morgan who reinvented power-hitting that day with 148 runs in just 71 balls hitting a mammoth 17 sixes, a world-record in an ODI innings by an individual, a record which still stands. Afghanistan simply could not keep up with it.

Cut to 2023 in Delhi, Afghanistan were much more accomplished at the world stage and this time England’s white-ball game was on a downward slope. Stars like Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mujeeb ur Rahman and of course Rashid Khan paved a famous win for Afghanistan as they defeated England for the first time in ODIs by a margin of 69 runs.

Team	Total Matches	Won	Loss	No Result/Tie
Afghanistan	3	1	2	0
England	3	2	1	0