England were well beaten in the third ODI in Chattogram, with Bangladesh winning by 50 runs
On what was billed as something of a road England and Bangladesh produced an encounter of multiple left turns, the anticipated runfest turning into something very different once the home side put the brakes on a high-octane start to England’s pursuit of 247 and the wickets started to fall. The dead end eventually came with just under seven overs to go, Bangladesh winning by 50 runs.
After racing to 50 without loss off 52 balls, fully 30 fewer than Bangladesh had taken to reach the same score, the wheels fell off almost instantly for England, and nine balls later it was 55 for three. Though James Vince and Sam Curran – promoted to bat at five – restored some stability with a partnership of 49, as the floodlights came on the sun gradually set on England’s chances.
It was Shakib who started the collapse. Phil Salt had looked in fearsome touch, and after pulling Shakib for four in the seventh over and hitting Ebadot for two more boundaries in the next appeared to be finding top gear. But at the end of the ninth over he made clean contact with another Shakib delivery only to biff it straight to point, where Mahmadullah took an easy catch. Salt beat his bat in fury at the waste of a fine start, and he was not the last Englishman whose bat was to be beaten.
Shakib’s second wicket came in his next over, Jason Roy missing an attempted cut as the ball kept low and losing his stumps. In Ebadot’s intervening over Dawid Malan slapped straight to mid-on without scoring, an unusual choice of shot for a batter often so careful early in his innings. After his match-winning century in the first ODI, over the course of the series Malan has gone very literally from hero to zero.
Perhaps England might have fared better had they allowed Adil Rashid to bowl his full allocation of overs instead of Ahmed – though the debutant needed every last delivery of his 10 to claim his first wicket, a simple return catch to dismiss Mehidi.
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