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| October 26, 2003 | Sunday | Sha’aban 29, 1424 |
Vaughan guides England home
DHAKA, Oct 25: England won the first Test on Saturday by seven wickets on the fifth and final day after a half century by Michael Vaughan condemned Bangladesh to a 24th defeat in 25 matches.
The tourists reached their target of 164 with the loss of three wickets in 39 overs with Vaughan unbeaten on 81, his highest Test score as captain, and Graham Thorpe 18 not out.
Earlier in the day Bangladesh had seen their slender victory hopes vanish when they lost their last four wickets for 10 runs, having resumed their second innings on 245 for six.
England made short work of their victory target, although first-innings centurion Marcus Trescothick was out for 27 when he was stumped by wicket-keeper Khaled Mashud off a spinning Mohammad Rafique delivery.
Rafique also dismissed Mark Butcher (eight) lbw with a ball that kept low. Seamer Mashrafe Mortaza trapped Nasser Hussain lbw for 17.
England pacemen Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard set up the victory chase after rattling through the middle and late-order as Bangladesh collapsed in the morning session.
Skipper Khaled Mahmud was the first man to fall, trapped lbw by Harmison for 18.
Rafique (one) then edged a low catch to wicket-keeper Chris Read off Harmison before Hoggard enticed Mortaza (one) to nick an outswinger to Trescothick at first slip. Hoggard wrapped up the innings by trapping Enamul Haque Jr lbw for a duck. Mushfiqur Rahman, who was unbeaten on 43 overnight, ended 46 not out.
Harmison finished with four for 44 to take his match haul to nine wickets and was later named Man-of-the-Match. Hoggard took four for 48, giving him a match tally of seven wickets.
Later Vaughan hailed the performance of Bangladesh.
After their inaugural meeting, Vaughan said: “On days three and four Bangladesh were excellent. But we put in the hard work yesterday (Friday) and got our rewards today (Saturday). We have to build on what we’ve done here and go and win the series in Chittagong.”
The second Test of the two-match series starts in Chittagong on Wednesday.
Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud said: “I think when we finished last night we had a good chance of winning. Hopefully we will do much better in the Chittagong Test.”
Meanwhile, Bangladesh made one change in the squad for the final Test, bringing in Mohammad Moniruzzaman to replace Aftab Ahmed, who did not make it to the eleven for the first Test here.
Scoreboard
BANGLADESH (1st Innings) 203 (Khaled Mashud 51, S.J. Harmison 5-35).
ENGLAND (1st Innings) 295 (M.E. Trescothick 113, G.P. Thorpe 64).
BANGLADESH (2nd Innings, overnight 245-6):
Hannan Sarkar c T’cothick b Hoggard 59
Rajin Saleh c Read b Harmison 8
Habibul Bashar c T’cothick b Batty 58
Alok Kapali c Butcher b Harmison 12
Mushfiqur Rahman not out 46
Khaled Mashud c Hussain b Giles 7
Javed Omar lbw b Hoggard 27
Khaled Mahmud lbw b Harmison 18
Mohammad Rafique c Read b Harmison 1
Mashrafe Mortaza c T’cothick b Hoggard 1
Enamul Haque Jr lbw b Hoggard 0
Extras (lb-10 nb-3 pen-5) 18
Total (all out, 107 overs) 255
FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-120, 3-140, 4-148, 5-176, 6-219, 7-248, 8-254, 9-255.
BOWLING: Hoggard 27-11-48-4; Harmison 25-8-44-4 (3nb); Batty 20-2-65-1; Giles 20-4-52-1; Clarke 15-6-31-0.
ENGLAND (2nd Innings):
M.E. Trescothick st K. Mashud b Rafique 27
M.P. Vaughan not out 81
M.A. Butcher lbw b Rafique 8
N. Hussain lbw b Mashrafe 17
G.P. Thorpe not out 18
EXTRAS (B-1, LB-6, W-1, NB-5) 13
TOTAL (for three wkts, 39.2 overs) 164
FALL OF WKTS: 1-64, 2-86, 3-128.
BOWLING: Mashrafe Mortaza 11-2-46-1 (4nb, 1w); Mushfiqur Rahman 3-1-11-1 (1nb); Khaled Mahmud 3-1-14-0; Mohammad Rafique 13.2-0-57-2; Enamul Haque Jr 7-0-27-0; Rajin Saleh 2-0-2-0.—Reuters
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