Buttler said the Afghanistan result was a "big setback". "We’ve got to show a lot of character, a lot of resilience within the team and most of all a lot of belief. Buttler conceded the England brain trust had misread the pitch and the conditions, retaining an extra seamer after seeing India beat Afghanistan at the same Arun Jaitley Stadium last week with a similar attack. "The conditions didn’t play quite as we thought they would ... The wicket didn’t play exactly how we thought it would play and the dew didn’t come in as much as we thought as well."

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Persons: Arun Jaitley, Jos Buttler, Afghanistan's Naveen, Ul, Haq, Andrew Boyers, Buttler, We’ve, haven’t, Chris Woakes's, Woakes, Ian Ransom, Lincoln Organizations: Cricket, ICC Cricket, Haq REUTERS, New Zealand, England, South, Thomson Locations: England, Afghanistan, New Delhi, India, DELHI, Australia, South Africa, Melbourne