According to details Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field first. Both English openers Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior failed to score today and turned back to pavilion after scoring 18 and 15 runs respectively. The third English wicket fell on 53 when Ian Bell got dismissed by Mahmudullah on 5. He faced 23 balls for this score. After losing three early wickets Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan played very sensible cricket and added 107 runs in the fourth wicket partnership. The innings of Morgan ended on 63.
Trott became the fifth wicket of home side; he scored 67 runs on 99 balls. Ravinder Bopara contributed his role by adding his 16 runs to his side’s total. On 209, the seventh wicket of English team fell, when Graeme Swann goes caught and bowled by Saqibul. He scored 12. Tim Bresnan was dismissed by Rubel on 2. Paul Collingwood goes runout on the second last ball of final over. He scored 14 on 13 balls. At the end the final score of English team was 225 in 49.4 overs. Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak and Saqibul Hasan finished the innings of 2, 2 players.
Following the target of 226, both openers Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes took an aggressive and confident start and built up the opening partnership of 52 runs. Iqbal got clean bowled by Bresnan on 38. Junaid Siddique goes runout after scoring 12 runs. Soon after, Raqibul Hasan was taken by Shahzad, he can’t opened his score account. On this stage captain Saqibul Hasan played very sensible cricket along with Kayes and added 88 runs in the fourth wicket partnership.
The innings of Kayes ended on 60; he faced 100 balls for this score. The fifth Bangladeshi wicket fell on 162 when Saqibul Hasan was dismissed by Swann on 32.
Wicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim contributed his role by adding his 6 runs to his side’s total. Naeem Islam turned back to pavilion on duck. On this stage Mohammad Mahmudullah and Shafiul Islam played great cricket and with the mutual partnership of 58 runs got the target on the last ball of 49th over. Mahmudullah was not out on 21 while Shafiul Islam on 24.
Ajmal Shahzad was the most successful bowler from English team, who finished the innings of 3 players.
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