LONDON, June 11: Bangladesh’s build-up to the one-day series against England and Australia suffered another setback on Friday when they lost by six wickets against Derbyshire. Already walloped in the two Tests by Michael Vaughan’s men, the tourists were beaten in the day-night match in Derby with 11.5 overs to spare leaving them with just one more warm-up against Worcestershire on Sunday before facing England at The Oval next Thursday.

Only a fourth-wicket stand of 80 between skipper Habibul Bashar and Tushar Imran rescued Bangladesh from an even worse defeat but they never looked capable of mounting a serious challenge after making just 189.

Steve Stubbings set the pace for the chase with 45 from 43 balls before Jon Moss and skipper Luke Sutton put on a match-winning stand of 106.

Moss top-scored with 72.

Bangladesh started miserably with Nafis Iqbal run out without facing a single delivery before his team slumped to 19-3 before Habibul and Tushar came together.

But Tushar was run out for 40 and Bashar fell one short of his fifty, one of three victims for Nick Walker who also claimed the wickets of Khaled Mashud (one) and Aftab Ahmed (26).

Scoreboard

BANGLADESH:

Javed Omar c Sutton b Sheikh 9

Nafees Iqbal run out 0

Rajin Saleh c Stubbings b Sheikh 4

Tushar Imran run out 40

Habibul Bashar c sub b Walker 49

Aftab Ahmed c Sutton b Walker 20

Khaled Mashud c Sutton b Walker 1

Mohammad Rafique c Dean b Botha 36

Khaled Mahmud b Gray 11

Mashrafe Mortaza c Sutton b Gray 0

Nazmul Hossain not out 1

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-10) 12

TOTAL (all out, 46.1 overs) 189

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-16, 3-19, 4-99, 5-127, 6-134, 7-147, 8-177, 9-177.

BOWLING: Dean 6-0-23-0 (2w); Sheikh 8-1-15-2 (3w); Hunter 8-0-45-0 (1w); Gray 10-0-40-2 (2w); Botha 8.1-0-40-1 (2w); Walker 6-0-24-3.

DERBYSHIRE:

S.D. Stubbings c Mashud b Nazmul 45

N.G.E. Walker run out 5

J.D.C. Bryant c Mashud b Nazmul 7

J. Moss c Rajin b Mashrafe 72

L.D. Sutton not out 42

A.G. Botha not out 1

EXTRAS (LB-7, W-8, NB-3) 18

TOTAL (for four wkts, 38.1 overs) 190

FALL OF WKTS: 1-15, 2-49, 3-76, 4-182.

DID NOT BAT: G. Welch, M.A. Sheikh, A.K.D. Gray, I.D. Hunter, K.J. Dean.

BOWLING: Mashrafe Mortaza 10-0-53-1 (3w); Nazmul Hossain 8-1-37-2 (1nb, 2w); Khaled Mahmud 6-0-38-0 (2nb, 1w); Mohammad Rafique 9-0-29-0 (2w); Aftab Ahmed 3-0-20-0; Rajin Saleh 2-0-4-0; Habibul Bashar 0.1-0-2-0.—Agencies

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