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06-Jun-2010 15:26:00 GMT
England v Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Old Trafford, 3rd day

Ruthless England Seal Innings Win, Win Series 2-0

Manchester: England secured a 2-0 series whitewash over Bangladesh after winning the second Test by an innings and 80 runs.

Play did not begin until 01:15pm local time after rain but having enforced the follow-on England removed danger man Tamim Iqbal with the second ball of the innings.

James Anderson took 3-16 and the only resistance came from Mahmudullah 38.

Steven Finn finished with 5-42, his second successive five-wicket haul, as Bangladesh were all out for 123 before the tea interval.

With Bangladesh's collapse on Saturday evening also taken into account, the tourists lost all 20 wickets for 213 in barely 64 overs.

Despite some entertaining performances in this series they have now been beaten in 59 of their 68 matches.

The conditions that deprived Strauss of a morning session nevertheless made his decision about the follow-on rather more straightforward.

Leaden skies and warm temperatures pointed towards the perfect scenario for James Anderson and he utilised it superbly, aided by some accurate bowling at pace by the impressive Steven Finn.

Anderson produced some spectacularly prodigious swing, which in excess of 86 mph proved too much for the beleaguered Bangladesh batsmen.

The plans for Tamim, who had scored successive centuries and a total of 503 runs in seven innings against England, had remained the same.

Only two slips were in place and there were men deposited on the square leg and backward point boundaries as Anderson came round the wicket to the 21-year-old left-hander.

The first ball was forced off the back foot for two but the next saw England get their man as a short one from Anderson moved appreciably away from the bat and Tamim could not resist nibbling at it, leaving wicketkeeper Matt Prior with a simple catch.

Imrul Kayes saw his vulnerability against the short ball exposed again and he played an ill-advised hook against Finn that, as in the first innings, found Ajmal Shazad, who made a more difficult catch look easy at deep square leg.

In the next over Junaid Siddique, having been thoroughly bewildered by the swing of Anderson, prodded one straight to gully.

When Jahurul Islam edged Finn to Prior to make it 21-4 statisticians were reaching for the record books for Bangladesh's lowest score which, incidentally, remains at 62 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2007.

The procession continued as the diminutive, talented but woefully out of form Mohammad Ashraful prodded to first slip and Anderson had figures of 3-10 in his seventh over.

Debutant Shahzad added to his three first innings wickets by nipping one back through the defences of Shakib Al Hasan in his second over and it was 39-6, with Bangladesh still 19 short of the lowest Test total at Old Trafford by India against England in 1952.

Brief scores
England
419 (Bell 128, Prior 93, Shakib 5-121)
Bangladesh 216 (Tamim 108, Swann 5-76) and 123 (Finn 5-42)
Result England won by an innings and 80 runs
MOM Ian Bell (England)
Man of the series Steven Finn (England)


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