That’s it for today, but you can discuss the game below the line on Simon Burnton’s report. Thanks for your company, bye!
The player of the series is Adil Rashid
It felt good throughout the series – not just myself but the whole bowling unit. [Rehan Ahmed] has got something special about him; hopefully as time goes on he’ll develop his game and go from strength to strength.
Jos Buttler’s verdict
We were happy with the score we were chasing, and we got off to a great start, but Bangladesh fought back really well. With Will Jacks injured, it was a great opportunity for Sam [Curran] to go up the order today. He has huge potential with the bat.
We got exactly what we wanted out of this tour. The wickets we played on are perfect preparation [for the World Cup]. These are the conditions we find the toughest so it’s been really valuable for us.
The player of the match will be Shakib Al Hasan, who scored more runs (75 from 71 balls) and took more wickets (4/35) than anyone else. But apart from that.
Next up, a three-match T20 series. It starts on Thursday, 9am GMT.
If you prefer your glass half-full, this defeat reinforces how well England did to win the first two games against a team who are formidable in home conditions. If you prefer it half-empy, we’re all going to die eventually.
BANGLADESH WIN BY 50 RUNS!
On the balance of play, Bangladesh 1-2 England is a fair series score. England struggled to chase lowish scores in the first and third matches, admittedly on tricky pitches, and today there was nobody to score a matchwinning century as Dawid Malan did at Mirpur. In fact, the highest score was James Vince’s 38.
WICKET! England 196 all out (Woakes ct and b Mustafizur 34)
We’re done here. Woakes pushes one back at Mustafizur, who takes an acrobatic catch at the second attempt, and Bangladesh have completed an excellent victory.
43rd over: England 196-9 (Woakes 34, Archer 5) Shakib ends with admirable figures of 10-0-35-4.
Archer is not out! Yep, that was a poor decision. I think the umpire was seduced by the theatre of Shakib’s appeal.
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43rd over: England 196-9 (Woakes 34, Archer 5) Shakib would love to finish the match by completing a five-for. It almost comes to pass when Woakes chips just short of him – and he gets even closer when Archer is given out LBW to the last ball of Shakib’s spell!
Archer has reviewed, and it did look like it was missing leg stump. We’ll soon find out.
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42nd over: England 194-9 (Woakes 33, Archer 5) Woakes cuts Ebadot through extra cover for four, a shot of defiance rather than a statement of matchwinning intent.
His next shot is almost a matchlosing one, a mistimed chip down the ground that is dropped by the captain Tamim Iqbal. It was a pretty tough chance on the run.
Archer scrunches an extra-cover drive for four, and a couple of wides make it an unusually expensive over from Ebadot.
41st over: England 184-9 (Woakes 28, Archer 1) Shakib has done an adequate day’s work: 75 from 71 balls and now 9-1-34-4.
With that, Shakib becomes the first Bangladesh player to take 300 ODI wickets. His record in all formats is extraordinary, and future generations may wonder why there wasn’t more fuss about him.
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WICKET! England 182-9 (Rehan c Mehidy b Shakib 2)
Shakib, the player of the match in waiting, comes back into the attack – and he needs two balls to dismiss Rehan Ahmed.
It wasn’t a great delivery, a rank long hop in fact. Rehan smashed it towards straight midwicket, where Mehidy took a marvellous two-handed catch just above the ground.
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40th over: England 182-8 (target 247; Woakes 27, Rehan 2) The teenager Rehan Ahmed works Mehidy to leg for his first run in ODI cricket, the second of singles in the over, and then Woakes makes room to slap an excellent cut for four. That’s his first boundary, and a statement that England haven’t given the game up. They need 65 from 60 balls.
38th over: England 174-8 (target 247; Woakes 21, Rehan 0) Taijul ends with figures of 10-0-52-2. He was below par for most of the innings but turned the game Bangladesh’s way with the Brobdingnagian wicket of Jos Buttler.
WICKET! England 174-8 (Rashid b Taijul 8)
Eight down, two to go for Bangladesh. Rashid tries to pull a quicker ball from Taijul that doesn’t get up as expected and pings the outside of off stump.
38th over: England 170-7 (target 247; Woakes 20, Rashid 5) Rashid dances down the track to work Mehidy to deep midwicket for a couple. If England are to win – and it’s a long shot – they will haev to take advantage of Mustafizur’s remaining four overs. With that in mind, they are content to deal in ones or twos for the time being.
37th over: England 166-7 (target 247; Woakes 19, Rashid 2) Woakes is frustrated when he fails to punish a slightly short delivery from Taijul, cracking it straight to one of the cover fielders. For the first time, the required rate is above a run a ball: England need 81 from 78. The net is closing around them.
36th over: England 163-7 (target 247; Woakes 16, Rashid 2) Three from Mehidy’s over. England’s plan now will be to take it deep and hope human nature kicks in; I don’t fancy their chances.
35th over: England 160-7 (target 247; Woakes 14, Rashid 1) England still have some batting to come – Adil Rashid is in now, with Rehan Ahmed and Jofra Archer to follow – but they’re a long way from home and the wicket of Buttler makes Bangladesh strong favourites.
WICKET! England 158-7 (Buttler LBW b Taijul 26)
Well I look a right plonker now. Buttler tries to reverse sweep Taijul, misses and is given out LBW. He reviews, more in hope than expectation, and starts walking off the field as soon as he has seen the first replay on the big screen. It was plumb.
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34th over: England 158-6 (target 247; Buttler 26, Woakes 13) Mehidy is back, a good move I think, and he starts by bowling very straight, almost unusually so for an offspinner, to the right-handers.
Buttler works his first ball past short fine leg for three more. It’s a sign of Buttler’s ability, awareness and placement that he has raced to 26 off 23 balls without hitting a single boundary. He has a frightening number of ways to skin a bowling attack.
33rd over: England 153-6 (target 247; Buttler 22, Woakes 12) The Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal is taking a risk by holding back Mehidy, Shakib and Ebadot, because the most obvious route to victory is to dismiss Buttler right now. The best time to plant a tree and all that.
For the time being Buttler and Woakes are happy to take comfortable singles, of which there are three in Taijul’s over.
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32nd over: England 150-6 (target 247; Buttler 20, Woakes 11) Mustafizur replaces Ebadot, whose last two overs are being saved for the business end. Buttler looks calm – he’s been in more nerve-shredding runchases than this – and takes no-risk singles off the first and last deliveries of the over.
31st over: England 147-6 (target 247; Buttler 18, Woakes 10) Woakes is living dangerously. He’s beaten by Taijul, top-edges a lap for two and then gets a leading edge that loops wide of the man at cover point.
Buttler drags a reverse sweep for three, a relatively low-risk shot, and that’s drinks. England need 100 from 114 balls.
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30th over: England 141-6 (target 247; Buttler 15, Woakes 7) Sensible batting from Buttler and Woakes, who take five singles off the dangerous Ebadot. He has two overs remaining.
29th over: England 136-6 (target 247; Buttler 13, Woakes 4) Buttler takes a very dodgy single off the new bowler Taijul, and the non-strike Woakes only survives because of an errant throw from the off-balance cover fielder, Mehidy I think.
Woakes then chips Taijul wide of the man at mid-off. This is fascinating stuff, the kind of lowish-scoring dogfight that we rarely see in modern ODIs.
28th over: England 132-6 (target 247; Buttler 11, Woakes 2) Bangladesh’s fast-bowling coach is Allan Donald, which helps to explain the dramatic improvement in bowlers like Taskin Ahmed and Ebadot Hossain.
“I’m really enjoying this series even if many may not be too fussed by its existence,” says Guy Hornsby. “It’s vital time on subcontinental wickets, and we’ve done well so far. It’s the fringe players that have not quite done it, with Salt and Vince needing runs. Vince looked very stylish as ever, but would he get in over Malan, or indeed a returning Stokes (whose non-bowling changes the conversation for me)? Probably not but he’s a class backup all the same.”
Yes, realistically he needed something like two centuries in this series to force his way into the squad.
WICKET! England 130-6 (Moeen b Ebadot 2)
Bowled him! Ebadot Hossain has been outstanding today, and now he has cleaned Moeen Ali up with an 89mph cracker. It was full, not quite yorker length, and straightened just enough to bowl Moeen off the pad.
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27th over: England 127-5 (target 247; Buttler 10, Moeen 0) England need 120 from 138 balls.
WICKET! England 127-5 (Vince c Mushfiqur b Shakib 38)
It’s not Jos Buttler, but Bangladesh will take it! The ball after being hit back over his head for four, Shakib dismisses James Vince with a stunning delivery. It dipped onto middle and leg before exploding off the pitch to take the thinnest of edges, and Mushfiqur took a difficult catch at the second attempt.
Vince goes for a good 44-ball 38, and Bangladesh are right back in the game.
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26th over: England 118-4 (target 247; Vince 32, Buttler 7) Ebadot Hossain returns to the attack, probably with Jos Buttler in mind. If Bangladesh get Buttler early they will be favourites.
Ebadot bowls a fine yorker to Buttler, who is already on the walk and manages to force it away for a single.
“I’m just leaving to cross the Bosphorus for a lesson on a sunny day after the recent gloom,” says Rob Lewis. “I trust I leave the match in your capable grasp, so you can see England home for me. The game is here really, what with the long tail...”
While I agree that the game is here, I’ve seen much longer tails.
25th over: England 114-4 (target 247; Vince 30, Buttler 5) Buttler laps Shakib off middle stump for three, a good shot if not without risk. Seven from the over.
24th over: England 107-4 (target 247; Vince 27, Buttler 1) The new batter is Jos Buttler.
WICKET! England 104-4 (Curran c Litton b Mehidy 23)
That’s the wicket Bangladesh needed. Curran goes back to slap a poor delivery, short and wide, but it gets stuck in the pitch and he somehow scoops it straight to long off.
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23rd over: England 103-3 (target 247; Vince 25, Curran 23) With Bangladesh in increasingly urgent need of a wicket, Shakib returns to the attack. The straight ball remains the danger to England, and they are happy enough with a nice, quiet over – one from it.
22nd over: England 102-3 (target 247; Vince 24, Curran 23) Vince and Curran are an unlikely middle-order partnership, but they complement each other pretty well – right/left, tall/short, strokemaker/punisher – and at the moment they have this runchase under control.
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21st over: England 98-3 (target 247; Vince 21, Curran 22) Mehidy has changed ends to replace Taijul. Vince dances down to flick his second ball over midwicket for six, a brave shot with men on the boundary at deep square leg and deep midwicket.
20th over: England 90-3 (target 247; Vince 14, Curran 21) Mustafizur replaces Mehidy, which means a change of pace. A quiet over, two from it. After a dramatic wobble, England again look comfortable.
19th over: England 88-3 (target 247; Vince 13, Curran 20) Four more to Curran, who skids onto the back foot to drive Taijul between extra cover and mid-off. That’s a fine stroke.
18th over: England 83-3 (target 247; Vince 13, Curran 15) A very good stroke from Vince, woh flicks Mehidy over midwicket for four with a flamingo flourish. Having added seven in their first five overs together, Vince and Curran have scored seven off each of the last three overs.
17th over: England 76-3 (target 247; Vince 8, Curran 13) Vince gets his first boundary, flicking the new bowler Taijul through midwicket. So far this has been a very sensible partnership.
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16th over: England 69-3 (target 247; Vince 3, Curran 11) The offspinner Mehidy Hasan replaces Ebadot, a good move with the left-handed Curran at the crease. His first ball almost skids through Curran, who responds by charging the next delivery and chipping it over long on for six. In intent and execution, that’s fine batting.
Time for drinks.
15th over: England 62-3 (target 247; Vince 3, Curran 4) The run-rate isn’t an issue at this stage, so Curran and Vince are taking their time to rebuild the innings. Just a single to Curran off the last ball of Shakib’s over.
14th over: England 61-3 (target 247; Vince 3, Curran 3) Curran tries to cut the impressive Ebadot and is beaten. In the last 31 balls, England have scored six runs for the loss of three wickets.
13th over: England 59-3 (target 247; Vince 2, Curran 2) Shakib angles a series of deliveries into Vince, who defends watchfully and then works a shorter, wider delivery for a single. There’s no need for England, certainly the right-handers, to play silly buggers against Shakib on this pitch.
“Is England’s bowling now stronger than batting for the first time since before the 2019 cycle (was either ever strong beforehand)?” wonders Luke Dealtry. “The 2019 cycle had a freakish batting line-up that could take whatever target the sometimes patchy bowling threw their way. Now, we’re covered with spin, pace and seam options galore. But we don’t have the best-ever-in-the-world opening pair, Joe Root is doing other things and Ben Stokes isn’t providing the all-round balance. Sam Curran at 5 lolololol.”
This is a great point, apart from maybe the lolololol. I still think the (full-strength batting) is a nose ahead, but there isn’t much in it and that’s a huge change from 2019, particularly before Jofra Archer became available.
12th over: England 58-3 (target 247; Vince 1, Curran 2) It’s barely 15 minutes since England were romping to victory. I suppose it’s a good reminder ahead of the World Cup that, on low subcontinental pitches, the house can fall down with brain-melting speed.
11th over: England 56-3 (target 247; Vince 0, Curran 1) Sam Curran has been promoted to No5, presumably in an attempt to negate Shakib. This is the first time in his ODI career that he has batted higher than No7.
“I’m afraid I have to take pedantic issue with the phrase ‘tautologous pleonasm’ (5th over),” says Geoff Wignall. “Even if pleonasms can be considered tautologies (which most right-thinking folk would dispute), the phrase is then itself a pleonasm.”
To think some people say cricket isn’t inclusive enough.
WICKET! England 55-3 (Roy b Shakib 18)
Make that three wickets in eight balls! Roy plays an ill-conceived stroke, going back to cut a quicker ball that skids on to violate his furniture. Shakib has been getting people out that way for almost 20 years. All of a sudden, England are in a pickle.
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10th over: England 55-2 (target 247; Roy 18, Vince 0) Ebadot is bowling really well and has figures of 3-1-9-1.
“Salt and Bairstow to open in the World Cup?” says Rob Lewis. “With Roy as back-up? That’s pretty formidable.”
My hunch is it will be Bairstow and Roy, with Malan as back-up and Salt not in the squad, though there are a few games left for it to all shake out. The competition for places in the squad, never mind the team, is seriously serious.
WICKET! England 55-2 (Malan c Mahmudullah b Ebadot 0)
Two wickets in two overs. Malan cloths his second ball straight to mid-on, where Mahmudullah takes an easy catch.
9th over: England 54-1 (target 247; Roy 18, Malan 0) That was the last ball of the over. I swear to you.
WICKET! England 54-1 (Salt c Mahmudullah b Shakib 35)
The pacemaker bows out of the race. The ball after lifting Shakib high over wide mid-on for four, Salt slaps a cut straight to cover. He is fuming with himself, and it was a shot he didn’t need to play, but his risk/reward policy is different to most. And he did a decent job today, getting England ahead of the rate with a punishing 25-ball 35.
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8th over: England 47-0 (target 247; Roy 16, Salt 30) A short ball from Ebadot is cuffed impatiently through square leg for four by Salt, who is playing a T20 innings in a 50-over game. He often plays a T10 knock in T20s, so goodness knows what he’d be like in a T1.
Salt is beaten by three consecutive deliveries, all well wide of off stump. Clever bowling from Ebadot… but then he lets slip a low full toss that Salt pings to the extra-cover boundary. He has 30 from 22 balls, Roy 16 from 26.
7th over: England 39-0 (target 247; Roy 16, Salt 22) Shakib Al Hasan replaces Mustafizur. His first ball is a load of nonsense, well outside leg stump, and Salt hoicks it over backward square leg for four.
Shakib’s line is spot on after that, and later in the over Roy plays an uppish drive that bounces just short of cover.
6th over: England 34-0 (target 247; Roy 16, Salt 17) The right-arm seamer Ebadot Hossain replaces Taijul, whose two overs went for 18, and bowls a superb maiden to start.
Roy is beaten by the first two deliveries, then survives a big LBW appeal after pushing around his front pad. It looks close, if slightly legside, but Bangladesh have only one review left so Tamim Iqbal can’t afford to risk it.
It’s a good thing he didn’t, because replays show that Roy got an inside-edge.
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5th over: England 34-0 (target 247; Roy 16, Salt 17) Roy gets England’s one for the over, a boundary that is, with a wristy clip through wide mid-on.
“Yes, a tautologous pleonasm,” says Rob Lewis. “I wish to say sorry, apologise and get down on my bended knee...”
Look, in the proud 21-year history of the OBO, there have been a gazillion more egregious pleonasms. Get up man!
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4th over: England 29-0 (target 247; Roy 11, Salt 17) Salt walks down the track to clip Taijul through midwicket for four, then squirts another boundary past backward point. He has 17 from 11 balls, and England have made a perfect start.
3rd over: England 19-0 (target 247; Roy 10, Salt 8) Roy check-drives Mustafizur back over his head for four, a shot of rare class. This isn’t such a good over from Mustafizur, with most deliveries angled across Roy. Maybe he’s setting him up for another inswinger.
Indeed he is – the last ball comes back sharply to cut Roy in half and bounce over the stumps.
2nd over: England 13-0 (Roy 5, Salt 7) It’s spin at the other end in the human form of Taijul Islam. As usual, Phil Salt goes off like a pacemaker, crashing a boundary down the ground with the minimum of fuss.
1st over: England 5-0 (Roy 4, Salt 0) Roy punches a boundary through the covers, then survives another big LBW shout after again playing around an inswinger. Tamim Iqbal decides not to risk another review, and replays show it pitched outside leg.
Even so, Bangladesh will be hugely encouraged by how much the new ball is swinging for Mustafizur.
Roy is not out! It pitched just outside leg, so Roy survives.
There’s a review first ball! Roy plays around a classic inducker from Mustafizur and is trapped plumb in front. The umpires says not but Tamim Iqbal decides to take it further. The only issue is whether it pitched in line.
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The Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram
“Hands up,” says Rob Lewis, “who thought a Chattogram was an arrangement where someone sends a nice avuncular person round to your gaff for a cuppa tea and a sticky bun, and a good old-fashioned chinwag?”
The first person to mention Mumbai gets a six-week ban.
(Now, more importantly, shouldn’t it be either ‘cup of tea’ or just ‘cuppa’? The phrase ‘cuppa tea’ feels almost tautologous.)
Musical interlude
Thanks Tanya, morning everyone. Let’s start with some exceedingly important business: fantasy cricket. The gentlefolk below the line on our County Cricket Live! blog (immaculately hosted by Tanya for most of the summer) have set up an open league for the upcoming season. Here’s the link, and the code is FQMCMJZU. Thanks to Mesnilman for sorting it all out.
A nice fightback there by Bangladesh – thanks to Shanto, Mushifiqur and Shakib - after a very slow start and early wickets. You sense England will probably overhaul 246, but the pitch is a little sticky and they’re a touch batting light with Jacks injured out. Adil Rashid only bowled five (immaculate) overs as Buttler chose to give Rehan Ahmed the full set in a relatively low key game. That wicket with his very last ball will be imprinted on the memory banks.
Right, that’s it from me on the sofa. Handing over to the master Rob Smyth, who will guide you through to the close. Bye!
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England need 247 to win
48.5 overs: Bangladesh 246 all out ( Ebadot 1) Shakib having fun, dispatches Archer’s second ball with a first class stamp. Falls in an attempt for a second boundary – great catch by Roy – and Mustafizur can’t do anything with an Archer ball sheering into his pads.
WICKET! Mustafizur lbw Archer 0 (Bangladesh 246 all out)
A first ball duck for Mustafizur, given not out on the field but Archer likes it. England review and ball tracking confirms Archer’s confidence – clipping leg stump.
Shakib c Roy b Archer 75 (Bangladesh 246-9)
Shakib launches into a slower ball – it seems a certain boundary – but a flying Roy collects in mid-air just in front of the rope. Cracking catch.
48th over: Bangladesh 242-8 ( Shakib 71, Ebadot 1) Curran has seemed a little out of sorts in these later overs. Starts with a wide before Shakib rocks onto the back foot and slams the next ball for four. He refuses a single, then takes two – good running and a slightly wild throw from Woakes in the deep. Oh dear, not the best day for poor old Vince in the deep: Shakib has a thwack at a slower ball and Vince runs in from the boundary, seems to get his hands to the ball, but it somehow drops through and runs away for four. I miss the expression on Curran’s face.
47th over: Bangladesh 230-8 ( Shakib 60, Ebadot 1) Ebadot off the mark fending away an abrupt snorter from Archer. A massive wide follows, the ball slipping out of his hand I think and flapping well wide of Buttler.
WICKET! Taijul c and b Archer 0 (Bangladesh 227-8)
Taijul swings the bat at a slower ball, it collects moondust but falls straight into the hands of Archer who is waiting half way down the pitch.
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46th over: Bangladesh 227-7 ( Shakib 59, Taijul 2) A finger-kissing drive flies through the covers off Woakes’s last ball. Shakib reaches the boundary, but they need a few more.
45th over: Bangladesh 219-7 ( Shakib 53, Taijul 0) Rehan in his last over: singles, a deftly played four by Mehidy, then the wicket! I can’t claim to be able to pick him, but the commentators tell me that he was heavy on the googlies, especially as he grew more confident.Quite expensive, leaking 62, but bowled some beauties, had the batters prodding blind at times, and picks up his first ODI wicket!
WICKET! Mehidy c and b Rehan 5 (Bangladesh 219-7)
A maiden wicket with the very last ball of his spell! Not his best ball, a mid-pitch googly which Mehidy dobs back straight to Rehan, who grins and chucks the ball in the air. He’s surrounded by his teammates, a high five from Chris Woakes and a hug from Moeen Ali.
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Fifty for Shakib Al Hasan!
44th over: Bangladesh 212-6 ( Shakib 51, Mehidy 0) A third fifty of the innings for Bangladesh as Shakib reaches his 52nd ODI fifty (from 55 balls) with a tickle off Chris Woakes. The run-squeeze induces a flouncy drive from Afif, Moeen makes it look easy at cover.
WICKET! Afif c Moeen b Woakes 15 (Bangladesh 212-6)
A hasty spank only reaches Moeen, who dives and collects at cover
43rd over: Bangladesh 209-5 ( Shakib 49, Afif 14) Rehan does well, with Bangladesh looking for boundaries but finding only singles or dots. Bangladesh – the commentators muse – are struggling to pick Rehan.
42nd over: Bangladesh 204-5 ( Shakib 46, Afif 12) Moeen for his ninth over. Shakib standing well outside leg stump, giving Moeen a tasty view of all three, but they can’t reach the rope. Can Bangladesh stretch to 250 in their allocation on this sticky pitch?
41st over: Bangladesh 199-5 ( Shakib 43, Afif 11) A half volley is punished , a shorter one cut with panache by Afif for four more.
40th over: Bangladesh 190-5 ( Shakib 38, Afif 7) All in apple-pie order from Moeen.
39th over: Bangladesh 187-5 ( Shakib 36, Afif 6) We see Rehan again, and his soon-to-be familiar back leg delivery, flying off like a pushed away angle point lamp. A legside googly is swept by Afif for four, then Rehan nearly picks up a wicket as as lofted drive falls just out of reach as a sprinting Archer.
38th over: Bangladesh 179-5 ( Shakib 33, Afif 1) A run of eight successive dot balls comes to an end when Shakib drags Curran up and over, inching into the Mr White detergent powder boundary boards. The next delivery is a half volley and Shakib tsicks out his green pad and dispatches the ball under Curran’s mid-air boots for four more.
37th over: Bangladesh 171-5 ( Shakib 25, Afif 1) Just a single from Rashid’s over (5-0-21-2), as new batter Afif struggles to get him off the square.
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36th over: Bangladesh 170-5 ( Shakib 24, Afif 1) Curran is back – and Mark Wood seems to be on the field for Moeen Ali. Sweat drips into Curran’s eyes, and he wipes it away as he walks back to his mark.
A letter from Lemmington Spa. Hello Jonathan Chilvers!
“I’ve enjoyed this series in Bangladesh, but hasn’t the time come to stop playing 50 over cricket? It’s the least loved of the formats and with the ridiculous scheduling shouldn’t this be the thing to go? England could announce that this year’s 50 over World Cup will be the last they will play in. At county level the One Day Cup could also end which would help resolve some of the scheduling dilemmas in the domestic game. I know this will seem radical to some, but isn’t it time to look at this kind of option?”
Fifty over cricket definitely looks the most vulnerable of the formats – falling between money-making (T20) and history (Tests). Personally, I love a fifty-over World Cup – but I don’t know if it would be possible just to play the World Cup without bilateral competition.
35th over: Bangladesh 163-4 ( Shakib 18, Mahmudullah 2) A chassé down the pitch and a swing of the bat brings Mahmudullah a huge six – the first of the innings. Two balls later, he is trudging back.
WICKET! Mahmudullah b Rashid 8 (Bangladesh 163-5)
Shaped to play for the spin but it was a Rashid top spinner, and the stumps are laid to rest.
34th over: Bangladesh 156-4 ( Shakib 18, Mahmudullah 2) A little less than a handful, a little more than a sprinkling of spectators now in the ground, as Archer runs in. Throws a bouncer into the mix alongside the fuller balls.
We see another replay of the possible run-out last over, and after all that Shakib’s bat was in.
33rd over: Bangladesh 153-4 ( Shakib 17, Mahmudullah 0 ) Beautifully done by Rashid, who sets the trap with a wide, loopy legbreak, then sends down the killer googly. Mushfiqur drops to sweep and is utterly beaten. Bangladesh now need to accelerate without their two in place batters. Nearly a second wicket in the over as the umpiress call for the camera’s eye to see if Rashid got his boot on the ball before it cannons into the stump from a Mahmudullah drive. The answer is no.
WICKET! Mushfiqur b Rashid 70 (Bangladesh 153-4)
The end of a smashing little innings as Mushfiqur, eager to sweep, is utterly upturned by a googly.
32nd over: Bangladesh 152-3 (Mushfiqur 70, Shakib 16) Shakib goes for a meaty swing and is done by a slower ball, then Jofra finishes the over by sending down a quicker ball which looks as if it raps Mushfiqur on the body and he winces in pain. Just a couple from the over.
Reece Topley walks slowly round the ground .
31st over: Bangladesh 150-3 (Mushfiqur 69, Shakib 15) Rashid’s run-up is the longest, most fluent, approach of all England’s spinners. Bangladesh knock off four singles than a lovely little nudge behind by Shakib brings two.
30th over: Bangladesh 144-3 (Mushfiqur 67, Shakib 11) Moeen’s spell comes to an end and Buttler plumps for Jofra to complement Rashid. He starts his run-up but just jogs through the crease as Shakib waves him away. Jofra gives the white ball a stern examination, but it drifts legside and Mushfiqur turns him off his pads for four.
29th over: Bangladesh 137-3 (Mushfiqur 63, Shakib 8) Adil time, as Buttler gives Rehan a rest after a spell of six overs for 33. Nicely done. Shakib launches into a dramatic pull but only picks up one.
28th over: Bangladesh 133-3 (Mushfiqur 61, Shakib 6) Bangladesh haven’t been paralyzed by the loss of Shanto, are keeping the singles ticking over. Shakib nearly loses his stumps via an arm ball that he just prods away in time. We now have some music to jee up the crowd, which has perhaps built up a smidgen.
27th over: Bangladesh 127-3 (Mushfiqur 57, Shakib 5) Rehan is mullered down the ground as Mushfiqur stands and delivers at a short full toss. Buttler walks the length of the pitch to hand out a little pep talk.
26th over: Bangladesh 119-3 (Mushfiqur 51, Shakib 2) Moeen hauls Bangladesh back to the stables, just a single from the over.
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Fifty for Mushfiqur!
25th over: Bangladesh 118-3 (Mushfiqur 50, Shakib 2) Do you sense a soupcon of chagrin as Mushfiqur celebrates his fifty?
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WICKET! Shanto run out (Buttler/Rehan) 53 (Bangladesh 115-2)
Calamity, calamity, a disconsolant Shanto pulls off his helmet, shouts in frustration and hangs his head as he trudges off – the end of a super little innings and a rebuilding partnership of 98. He swept the ball, hesitated, then found his partner nearly polishing his shoes. He sprinted down the pitch, flung himself desperately at the ground but was beaten by Buttler’s calm throw and out by a foot.
Fifty for Shanto!
24th over: Bangladesh 114-2 (Mushfiqur 48, Shanto 53) Moeen proving fairly easy fodder for Bangladesh. They’re now running superbly between the wickets, one of which brings Shanto his second ODI fifty, and his second of the series! The BPL star proving his worth. A fantastic stop and roll on the rope by Adil Rashid (mind that knee!) prevents three becoming four.
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23rd over: Bangladesh 107-2 (Mushfiqur 45, Shanto 49) A bottom handed drive for four off Rehan feels like a million dollars but only brings a single, but they scamper two from the final ball, as Buttler appeals for an lbw but is declined. Tick tock, this partnership now worth 90.
22nd over: Bangladesh 101-2 (Mushfiqur 42, Shanto 46) Another beautifully played reverse-sweep for four, as Shanto nails the shot off Moeen, and Bangladesh sweep into three figures.
21st over: Bangladesh 93-2 (Mushfiqur 37, Shanto 38) A beauty of a googly from Rehan pitches and hits Shanto on the pad as he drops to sweep. Buttler goes for the review – wonder if he was influenced by the desire to boost his young charge’s confidence – but the ball is just missing off.
Not a bad roll call:
What a moment for Rehan Ahmed!
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20th over: Bangladesh 88-2 (Mushfiqur 37, Shanto 38) Moeen rattling through his over, but these two are growing in confidence, picking up singles with relative ease.
19th over: Bangladesh 84-2 (Mushfiqur 35, Shanto 36) Rehan Ahmed again. Mushfiqur reverses neatly, just over the top of a leaping Woakes at short third, for a top knotch four. Rehan, chewing gum, replies with a topspinner which Mushfiqur defends carefully away. Next door the kettle comes on and I’m hoping for coffee..
18th over: Bangladesh 77-2 (Mushfiqur 29, Shanto 28) A beauty from Moeen, the ball drifting in, then squirting suddenly away past Shanto’s outside edge. But the next is reverse swept with soft hands for four.
Rehan Ahmed's maiden over
17th over: Bangladesh 70-2 (Mushfiqur 29, Shanto 28) Number 53 on the back of his navy blue shirt. His first ball is a legbreak, punted away for a single. He looks eager, an easy, four step run up, bouncy in his follow-through, directing his field. Three from the over.
16th over: Bangladesh 67-2 (Mushfiqur 28, Shanto 26) Time for spin, as Moeen Ali replaces Archer. Another handy collection of singles in hte purse, then Vince beaten on the rope again, this time by a ball nicely swept by Shanto that spins back on itself as he shapes to collect.
“The roof of the media centre here at ZACS, up with the TV cameras, is a lovely spot to watch the game from. Partly because it’s also one of the only parts of the ground with a roof - though the photo makes it look cloudy that’s just the smog, and despite the breeze it is hot on the sun. The crowd is extremely unimpressive - it might fill up later but it doesn’t help that the ground is right on the edge of town and it’s a long way to go to bake in the sun. When I asked someone from the BCB last week what ticket sales were like for this game, he said they hadn’t gone on sale yet!”
15th over: Bangladesh 59-2 (Mushfiqur 26, Shanto 20) The last over of the power play, Woakes looks rather hot, squinting into the sun as he walk back to his mark. Five singles from the over, as Shanto and Mushfiqur rotate the strike.
14th over: Bangladesh 54-2 (Mushfiqur 23, Shanto 18) Mushfiqur fends at a sudden short one from Jofra Archer, gets a top edge that flies over the keeper for four.
13th over: Bangladesh 47-2 (Mushfiqur 17, Shanto 17) Four singles off Woakes, this innings is in danger of slipping away from Bangladesh.
Some interesting stuff from Jarrod Kimber on Talksport on why the ground is so empty. It is miles away from the centre of town, then a walk from the bus stop in the heat. The facilities are bad, especially the toilets, it is midweek and a dead rubber.
12th over: Bangladesh 43-2 (Mushfiqur 15, Shanto 15) What Alan Hansen would have called sloppy fielding by Vince in the deep, who casually picks up and throws, but in doing so steps on the marker.
An awful story from a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh:
11th over: Bangladesh 36-2 (Mushfiqur 14, Shanto 9) Woakes rotates back into the mix, directs his field with a flick of the hand . Shanto loses patience, dances down the pitch, has a huge swing – but misses a Woakes slower ball. Tries again next ball, but can only pick up a single to mid-off. Next to me on the sofa, the dog groans and tries to climb onto my electric throw.
10th over: Bangladesh 34-2 (Mushfiqur 13, Shanto 8) Ten overs done as Archer runs in with that leisurely approach that suddenly unleashes 86mph balls. I don’t think he’s hit 90mph today – though I haven’t caught every balls. Mishfiqur has a lazy swing but can only reach the edge of the circle.
9th over: Bangladesh 32-2 (Mushfiqur 12, Shanto 7) I think Bangladesh must be putting their hopes in milking the new boy, Rehan Ahmed. Not much happening at no great speed with the bat at the moment. And as I write that, a wide from Curran is followed by Mushfiqur plonking his green boot down the pitch and sending the ball screaming to the rope with a square drive.
8th over: Bangladesh 27-2 (Mushfiqur 8, Shanto 7) Jofra time! Balls in the 80-86mph bracket. Shanto watches cautiously. A maiden.
Sky flick up scoring rates in different phases of the game during this series. England are slightly slower than Bangladesh in the first ten overs, but faster in the middle thirty and pull away completely in the last ten.
7th over: Bangladesh 27-2 (Mushfiqur 8, Shanto 7) A series of nearly balls from Curran, as Mushfiqur dances down the pitch and misses, pancakes the ball just past mid-on and gets a leading edge just short of him. Finally he finds the boundary, flicking off his legs nicely. A frustrated Curran mutters to himself.
I take back my comments about an empty ground, the cameras have found a few spectators – though they look British rather than Bangladeshi.
6th over: Bangladesh 21-2 (Mushfiqur 2, Shanto 7) Woakes continues to hold on tightly to the purse strings, just a couple leak through the field. A nice looking cut by Shanto off the last ball is picked up at point for no run.
5th over: Bangladesh 19-2 (Mushfiqur 1, Shanto 6) Mushfiqur survives the last ball coming across him temptingly, and that’s a maiden from Curran. The camera pans away and we can see the starkly yellow cut pitches in the centre of the dry grass. The ground, much of it in full midday sun, looks practically deserted.
4th over: Bangladesh 19-2 (Mushfiqur 1, Shanto 6) Just a couple off Woakes as Bangladesh reset.
3rd over: Bangladesh 17-2 (Mushfiqur 0, Shanto 5) A lot packed into this over! Thirteen off the first three balls, as first Tamim smartly drives an overpitched ball down the ground. Then a Keystone Kops moment as both Archer and Malan don banana skin boots in the field as a ball thrown in by Phil Salt riccochets off Tamim’s bat and goes for four. and then a stylish wristy flick from Shanto tonks the ball across the lighting fast outfield to the rope. Finally, a second wicket for Curran as Tamim loses his balance mid shot.
WICKET! Tamim c Vince b Curran 11 (Bangladesh 17-2)
Tamim trips over his own laces and sends a leading edge to Vince who catches on the slide at backward point.
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2nd over: Bangladesh 3-1 (Tamim 2, Shanto 0) Archer being held back in these opening overs, as the immaculate Chris Woakes runs in, thick blue wristband on his left wrist. He’s immediately on song, and Bangladesh pick up just a single.
News from our man at the ground, Simon Burnton: “Hello from Chattogram! It’s a lovely, quite breezy day for a game of cricket. The England team just posed for a tour photograph on the outfield, moments before the start of play. Will Jacks is here today, despite being ruled out for the remainder of the series, with his homeward journey due to start tomorrow. This is famed as the country’s best batting track - and India scored 409-8 here in December - so fireworks are anticipated.”
Thanks Simon, and scrub my earlier entry about Will Jacks being on the way home.
1st over: Bangladesh 2-1 (Tamim 1, Shanto 0) Just the start Bangladesh didn’t want as Sam Curran pockets a wicket in his first over once more. A nice bit of swing from Curran there, not a shot Litton will be collecting for his greatest hits medley.
WICKET! Litton c Buttler b S Curran 0 (Bangladesh 1-1)
Litton limply tries to prop up an old stick and guides the ball behind
Right here we go, Sam Curran does high velocity tuck jumps at the top of his mark.
England are playing two legspinners today, master and pupil with Adil Rashid and Rehan Ahmed. Rashid hands over the England cap in Chattogram (Chittagong).
Poor Will Jacks, meanwhile, is on his way home after sustaining a thigh injury.
Very interesting from Steven Finn on Sam Curran and the information overload that can happen in these data times. “Certainly, I fell foul of that at times. You only need to let one poor piece of information in to sidetrack you. Sam Curran needs to be able to sift through the rubbish, and there is a lot of rubbish when you’re playing for five, six teams in a year. I think he is able to do that.”
Morning! Small boundaries, fast outfield, a dry surface – Bangladesh need to bountiful runs here to try and prevent a clean sweep for England. Grab yourself a coffee and hunker down, this chilly March dawn. Do send me an email with your Monday morning thoughts.
Bangladesh team
Bangladesh XI: Tamim Iqbal (c), Liton Das, Najmul Shanto, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Asif Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Ebadot Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman.
One change, Ebadot replaces Taskin.
18 year old Rehan Ahmed makes his England ODI debut!
England XI: Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, James Vince, Sam Curran, Jos Butler (c, wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Rehan Ahmed, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer.
Three changes: Jofra Archer, Chris Woakes return, Rehan Ahmed makes his debut – at 18 years 206 days, the youngest male ODI cricketer for England.
Bangladesh win the toss and will bat!
It should be a spinning pitch at hot and humid Chattogram. Tamim Iqbal says he thinks the pitch looks dry and will spin a bit in the second innings.
Preamble
Good morning! The series won, the silverwear polished, Bangladesh’s hard-fought home record shredded. But there seems little chance of England dialling it in at Chattogram. This third and final ODI is a trial of sorts – a last chance for fringe World Cup players to shake their tail feathers until the autumn.
Today’s game is the final ODI England’s white-ball squad will play until September, when New Zealand fly in for a World Cup warmup just days before the ICC deadline for World Cup squads. Points, therefore, mean prizes.
As for Bangladesh, beaten in a home series for the first time in nearly seven years, England’s visit has been an eye-opener as to just where they stand against the top-ranked ODI team in the world, to be on the receiving end of Jason Roy, Jos Buttler and Sam Curran in full flow.
Play begins at 6am (GMT). See you there!
