A relatively comfortable win for England, but Bangladesh had their moments. The innings of Tamim Iqbal was excellent but lacked any support at all, which enabled England to continuously pick wickets up. Though the decision to delay the powerplay was poor, England have been guilty of this in the past, and is nonsensical to wait till the end when you have lost wickets as you have the tail-enders trying to make the most of it.
The poor running between the wickets also caused a couple of unnecessary wickets to fall.
Then apart from the three quick wickets they took, they never really gathered any momentum in the field, and the result seemed inevitable. I know Collingwood is probably not too popular on here, following his recent comments, but he batted excellently once more to lead us home. Good start for Captain Cook.
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