England on the rampage

14 April 2012

England's openers continued to dominate the Bangladesh attack as the NatWest Series moved to Trent Bridge.

Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss, who shared an unbroken 192-run stand in the crushing victory at the Oval last week, rattled along in excess of a run a ball for the opening 15 overs of the day-nighter after England won the toss.

By the end of those fielding restrictions, they had reached 128 without loss with Trescothick closing in on a fourth hundred in as many innings against the Asian tourists this summer.

Strauss was fortunate to survive two chances of contrasting difficulty, put down at gully by debutant Shahriar Nafees, off 17-year-old pace bowler Nazmul Hossain.

The first came in Nazmul's first over, the eighth of the innings, when a cut went straight through the fielder while the second came from a flash into the same region which Shahriar attempted to haul in with his left hand low down.

Early scoring was boosted by Tapsah Baisya's no-ball blight amid some serious misdirection as any width was seized upon by the left-handed openers.

They were not so comfortable against Mashrafe Mortaza, who nipped the new ball around impressively among the carnage.

It was only Mortaza's final over of a 6-0-23-0 spell, in which Strauss cut one boundary and Trescothick short-arm jabbed another, which upped the ante.

Three more followed from Trescothick's bat in the next, the 12th of the innings, when a flick off the pads cleared the ropes at square leg for the first six of the day and crashed a cover drive before going aerial again with a loft over mid-on.

When Tapash returned from the Radcliffe Road end, having been warned by umpire David Shepherd for running on the pitch, things got no better as two full balls were guided through midwicket for four as Trescothick brought up a 51-ball half-century.

Strauss laid into Nazmul with two fours either side of the wicket to bring up three figures for England in the 14th over before Trescothick blasted a six and four fours in a Tapash over which cost 23 runs.

England handed a one-day international debut to Hampshire fast bowler Chris Tremlett, 23, in place of veteran Darren Gough while Ashley Giles also played his first international match of the summer with Vikram Solanki omitted.

Giles' return was good news for the hosts, who top the triangular tournament table following two wins out of two.

The 32-year-old left-arm spinner missed the two-Test series with the Bangladeshis and the opening NatWest victories with a hip problem and hopes to get some overs under his belt ahead of the Ashes which begins a month today.

England had previously patched up their team without him by including Solanki at number eight but having twice been ditched in the winter after top-scoring found he himself left out again.

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