Large image – Historical past beckons for Bangladesh
Bangladesh is perhaps forgiven for going into this third and remaining T20I with a way of Mission Completed. A collection win in opposition to England has been an extended, very long time coming – 20 years, the truth is, spanning three completely different codecs and a variety of deep and lasting indignities, from their unready Take a look at efforts in 2003, to their near-miss at Mirpur on England’s 2010 tour.
Since then, they have been closing the hole, with a minimum of one victory in every of their final 5 bilateral collection – both aspect of their biggest triumph up to now, the thrilling win in Adelaide in 2015, with which they vaulted into the World Cup knockouts at England’s expense. However eventually, in holding their nerve in Sunday’s low-scoring thriller, they’ve secured a slice of silverware that may depend amongst their proudest achievements.
Now, nevertheless, the problem is to go once more – to dig that little bit deeper in a state of affairs that England themselves would possibly recognise from their dwelling collection in opposition to Australia in 2018. Again then at Previous Trafford, England’s collection was lengthy within the bag at 4-0 with one to play, however the jeopardy of the whitewash raised the stakes for either side. Cue the feistiest contest of the lot, a gripping two-wicket win, delivered by a Jos Buttler century. The skilled delight of England’s double-World Champions calls for a redoubling of their focus as they search to keep away from such an indignity; and subsequently, the identical can be required of their hosts.
It took, in any case, a pair of excellent centuries from Dawid Malan and Jason Roy to topple Bangladesh within the ODI collection, and so hand Bangladesh a primary bilateral dwelling defeat within the format for seven years. Having now transferred that very same focus into the 20-over format, the hosts have proven a variety of abilities that augur nicely for the same period of dwelling dominance.
Buttler’s males are able to significantly better than they’ve produced up to now two matches, however in an period of fixture overload – with one World Cup simply secured and one other quickly to be defended – and with the small issues of the IPL and the Ashes dominating the speedy ideas of their senior gamers, can they discover sufficient desperation to keep away from a notable loss? Both manner, Bangladesh on this temper won’t give them a lot leeway.
Type information
Bangladesh WWLLW (final 5 accomplished matches, most up-to-date first)
England LLWWW
Within the highlight – Rony Talukdar and Ben Duckett
Workforce information – Few adjustments in offing
Mehidy’s thrilling introduction in Dhaka gave a successful line-up an additional innovative with the ball and, because it turned out, the bat too. Assuming the pitch presents comparable help to the spinners, there is no cause to alter this successful XI.
Bangladesh (possible): 1 Rony Talukdar, 2 Litton Das (wk), 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Towhid Hridoy, 6 Afif Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Nasum Ahmed, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Hasan Mahmud, 11 Mustafizur Rahman
Not numerous wriggle-room in England’s threadbare squad. Archer would possibly nicely be stood down, having proven as soon as once more that he is firmly on monitor for full health. Mark Wooden is the apparent man to return on a pitch that provided extra for the quicks than Chattogram had. Reece Topley is the opposite possibility, assuming he is recovered from the niggle that has saved him on the sidelines. Buttler slipped down the order in sport two. It stays to be seen if that experiment is repeated.
England (potential): 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (capt & wk), 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Ben Duckett, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Rehan Ahmed, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Mark Wooden.
Pitch and circumstances – One other turner in prospect
There’s going to be numerous spin and uneven bounce, if the Dhaka pitch for the second T20I is something to go by. And if that favours the hosts, then Buttler says England are joyful to take the learnings from such circumstances, significantly with the 50-over World Cup in thoughts. The climate in Dhaka will go from heat to gentle in the midst of the afternoon.
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Andrew Miller is UK editor of ESPNcricinfo. @miller_cricket
