Stuart Broad rejects England 'playing with fear' claims despite poor start to CWC campaign

Despite England's poor start to their World Cup campaign, fast bowler Stuart Broad has rejected claims that the squad is 'playing with fear'.

England have lost three of their first four matches and face Bangladesh in a must-win game on Monday.

Broad said that he doesn't believe that they are playing with fear, adding that they just haven't clicked the way they would have liked, the BBC reported.

Eoin Morgan's men have suffered heavy defeats to Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, with their only win against Scotland, which prompted former skipper Michael Vaughan to make the fear comment.

However, Broad responded that when one is outside the group, looking from afar, it's very easy to pick on loads of different things, but insisted that actually the group is in a really good place. He claimed that they just haven't performed when they need to in the middle.

After the game against Bangladesh, England face minnows Afghanistan in their final Pool A contest on 13 March.

Broad claimed that they need to win two games and they would be in the quarter-finals of a World Cup.