In the 31st match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan at The Rose Bowl in Southampton today. 

Bangladesh have five points from six matches and to stay alive in the tournament they have to win each of their last three matches. They have performed well so far but couldn't maintain consistency. Batsmen are in good form and will look to continue their good run but it's bowling which needs a lot of improvement. Mashrafe Mortaza has taken only one wicket in this World Cup, Mustafizur Rahman is struggling with new ball and spinners are also leaking runs in the middle overs and in death overs Rubel Hossain or Mohammad Saifuddin have to bowl very well.

On the other hand, Afghanistan with six losses from as many matches, have already been ruled out of this World Cup and will now aim to finish their campaign with a few wins. In the last match against India they put up a great performance and it must have given them some confidence and will be hoping for a similar show against Bangladesh as well.   

All the major stats and facts ahead of match 31 between Bangladesh and Afghanistan in Southampton 

Head to Head in ODIs -

Matches - 7

Bangladesh won - 4

Afghanistan won - 3

1 - Bangladesh and Afghanistan have played one match against each other in World Cups which Bangladesh won by 105 runs (at Canberra in 2015).

13 - Shakib Al Hasan has taken 13 wickets at an average of 19 in 6 ODI innings against Afghanistan. 

17.00 - Rashid Khan averages 17 against Bangladesh in ODI cricket. He has taken 10 wickets in 5 ODIs so far. 

47 - Mohammad Nabi needs 47 more runs to go past Mohammad Shahzad's tally of 2727 runs and become leading run scorer for Afghanistan in ODIs. 

59.25 - Tamim Iqbal's ODI batting average against Afghanistan. He has scored 237 runs at this average in 4 innings with 1 hundred and fifty each.

1000 - Gulbadin Naib needs 43 more runs to achieve the milestone of 1000 ODI runs.

4000 - Mahmudullah needs 80 more runs to become fourth Bangladeshi player to score 4000 ODI runs.