England struggle for fluency in chase - only completing victory in penultimate over
Five wickets for Curran as Afghanistan collapse from 91-4 to 112 all out
Curran first England bowler to take five wickets in a T20
Wood, bowling at high speeds, takes two wickets, as does Stokes
Livingstone, Moeen, Buttler & Rashid all take brilliant catches for England
When England fast bowler Reece Topley was ruled out of the World Cup with an ankle injury on Wednesday we asked you to pick your England XI.
This is who you picked, and you pretty much got it spot on!
Image source, BBC SportAustralia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell: “Not exactly ideal. The Kiwis came out hard and they played brilliantly. It’s hard to stop when they’re hitting everything early on, Finn Allen played a brilliant innings. They grabbed the momentum and it was really hard to strangle back, we fought hard during the middle but unfortunately they just got too many runs.
“We weren’t able to get partnerships throughout the innings. It was basically how not to play a T20 and we got beaten in all aspects of the game. They were brilliant tonight."
On the rest of the tournament: “If you look back to last year, we had a pretty heavy loss to England and you can draw some similarities. We didn’t bring out A-game and a really good side pounced on us tonight. We travel to Perth tomorrow to play Sri Lanka.
"We know their team really well. We’re looking forward to that contest because we need to get back on track pretty quickly or the tournament can disappear on you very quickly. Hopefully we can right some wrongs.”
Just a quick break away from England news to bring you some reaction from Australia's thrashing to New Zealand.
England: Jos Buttler (capt, wk), Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood.
Afghanistan: Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk). Ibrahmin Zadran, Usman Ghani, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi (capt), Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Zadran, Farid Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi: "We would have wanted to bat first and the plan was to put a score on the board and put them under pressure.
"My first World Cup was in 2010 and that was such an exciting time but now to be captain, I am still just as excited, hopefully we can do well.
"We have had some good time out here to adjust to the conditions and play some warm-up games. The boys are all ready to go."
England captain Jos Buttler: "We've had a long build up but we've had some really good games, so we feel as ready as we can be.
"We're really excited, and for me it's a great honour to captain my country in a World Cup. I have full faith in my team, we have a lot of talent and match-winners in our side."
Captain Jos Buttler gets the first job done and fancies chasing a target in their first outing of the competition.
His side are in form at the moment after completing series wins over Pakistan and Australia in the build up to the tournament, and said yesterday that they are "chomping at the bit" to get going.
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Perth
Hello from Perth where England's bid for a second T20 World Cup title begins. There's no threat of rain here, although it is cooler than England's Ashes visits here.
England have been here for four days preparing. Chris Woakes has overcome a fitness niggle.
Can they make a winning start?
Hello! New Zealand have just thrashed reigning champions Australia in the first game of the Super 12s, but our attention now turns to England's first game!
They're taking on Afghanistan in Perth, and we'll have all the news from the toss and the teams as soon as we have it.