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| June 22, 2005 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 14, 1426 |
England batsmen pulverise BD
NOTTINGHAM (England), June 21: Andrew Strauss and Paul Collingwood hit centuries as England just missed out on the world One-day International record by scoring 391 for four in their triangular series match against Bangladesh on Tuesday.
Left-handed opener Strauss finished on 152 from 128 balls while Collingwood, coming in at five, made 112 not out from 86 in the day-night tie at Trent Bridge.
They blitzed 210 runs together for the fourth wicket, the second 100 off an extraordinary 45 balls.
The world record innings total for a One-day International is held by Sri Lanka, 398 for five against Kenya at Kandy in the 1996 World Cup.
Bangladesh had beaten Australia on Saturday to record one of the greatest upsets in cricket history but any lingering smiles were quickly wiped away by England’s left-handed openers.
Marcus Trescothick had set things off with a blazing 85 off 65 balls after England won the toss.
Planting his front foot down leg stump and swinging hard and straight, he provided the brightest fireworks as he smashed 14 fours and two sixes.
The 15th over from Tapash Baisya went for 23 runs, with the batsman bludgeoning four fours and a six over long leg.
Refusing to throttle back, Trescothick attempted another lofted drive off fast-medium bowler Nazmul Hossain and skied high to cover to make it 141 for one in the 17th over.
For a while, Bangladesh checked the tide as three wickets fell for 38 runs.
Collingwood, however, usually regarded as a nudger and nurdler rather than a big hitter, came in to re-inject pace into the innings.
Strauss mixed classical cuts, pulls and drives with a string of unconventional walks outside off stump and scoops off middle stump to the fine leg boundary while Collingwood concentrated on hoiks to leg.
Strauss fell off the penultimate ball of the innings, once again trying to flick off his stumps while facing Hossain.
The two most frustrated in the ground, apart from the Bangladeshis and Baisya, who conceded 87 off seven wicketless overs, must have been England all rounder Andrew Flintoff and captain Michael Vaughan.
Flintoff got off the mark by pulling spinner Mohammad Rafique for six only to loft Aftab Ahmed’s medium pace to Habibul Bashar after making 17.
Vaughan dragged a ball from Nazmul into his stumps for an eight-ball duck.
Scoreboard
ENGLAND:
M.E. Trescothick c Shahriar b Nazmul 85
A.J. Strauss lbw b Nazmul 152
M.P. Vaughan b Nazmul 0
A. Flintoff c Habibul b Aftab 17
P.D. Collingwood not out 112
G.O. Jones not out 2
EXTRAS (B-1, LB-4, W-9, NB-9) 23
Total (for four wkts, 50 overs) 391
FALL OF WKTS: 1-141, 2-148, 3-179, 4-389.
DID NOT BAT: K.P. Pietersen, A.F. Giles, J. Lewis, C.T. Tremlett, S.J. Harmison.
BOWLING: Mashrafe Mortaza 10-0-71-0 (2nb, 2w); Tapash Baisya 7-0-87-0 (7nb, 2w); Nazmul Hossain 10-0-83-3 (2w); Mohammad Rafique 10-0-54-0 (1w); Aftab Ahmed 10-0-65-1 (1w); Tushar Imran 3-0-26-0.
BANGLADESH: Javed Omar, Shahriar Nafees, Tushar Imran, Mohammad Ashraful, Habibul Bashar, Aftab Ahmed, Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Tapash Baisya, Nazmul Hossain.
UMPIRES: D.R. Shepherd (England) and B.F. Bowden (New Zealand).
TV UMPIRE: M.R. Benson (England).
MATCH REFEREE: J.J. Crowe (New Zealand).—Agencies
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