article_snippet: Joe Root Joe Root feels England need to make a convincing statement that England belong in the World Cup quarter-finals when England meet Bangladesh and Afghanistan Afghanistan in England final two group games.
article_snippet: England must win both matches, against lower-ranked opponents, to have any chance of reaching the knockout stage.
article_snippet: An early exit looms large after Sunday's nine-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in Wellington followed wide-margin beatings by co-hosts Australia and New Zealand.
article_snippet: Joe Root has insisted that England must succeed in securing convincing victories in their next two games .
article_snippet: That has piled the pressure on, albeit in two games Joe Root points out that England would have needed to win in any circumstance. '
article_snippet: If you play those two games at the start of the competition you still have to win England would have needed to win in any circumstance,' Joe Root said. '
article_snippet: England's hastened need to restore confidence is underlined by the fact that should England's hastened need to restore confidence reach the last-eight England's hastened need to restore confidence will now most likely play the highest-ranked team in Pool B. That will almost certainly be either South Africa or world champions India, who England did beat twice during the Tri-Series leading up to World Cup. '
article_snippet: Root believes the gap between England and the best teams at World Cup is not as large as England and the best teams at the World Cup heavy defeats would suggest. '
highlights_snippet: England have lost heavily to Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka .
  
highlights_snippet: Joe Root says both have to impress against Bangladesh and Afghanistan .
  