Paul Collingwood helps Alastair Cook to sojourn in the joy zone

Mike Atherton, Chief Cricket Correspondent, in Dhaka & , : {}

If Alastair Cook noticed his initial one-day general in assign as a intensity banana skin rather than an event to impress, thereafter it was one that he sidestepped niftily. On a sultry, misty dusk here, in front of a sizeable, irascible crowd, who came to watch their group kick England for the initial time, Bangladesh were brushed in reserve with something coming ease.

The domain of feat was some-more gentle than it competence have been interjection to Paul Collingwood who, with an dominant 75, valid once again that he is a man for all seasons and all conditions. It would be fantastic to contend that England would have lost but him, but whilst he was at the double there was never any probability that the loss of 3 discerning wickets, after an opening partnership of 73 in in between Cook and Craig Kieswetter, represented anything some-more than a blip.

Bangladesh were left to bewail the naivety of their batting, that meant that Tamim Iqbals stimulating 125 went unrewarded. He watched as a multiple of bungled using in in between the wickets and soft dismissals prevented his group from creation full have use of of their 50 overs. There were longed for opportunities in the field, too, the fumbling Mushfiqur Rahim at the back of the sticks unwell to do probity to the talents of the four-pronged turn attack.

There were copiousness of boxes ticked for Englands new captain, not the slightest of that was his own opening as a decision-maker, that lacked the mad disbelief that was strong at Centurion Park in Nov when he led England in a Twenty20 general for the initial time. These were simpler opponents for sure, but there was some-more management from Cook yesterday. His discerning half-century, too, referred to that his time afar from the one-day general group was not wasted.

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Cook scored 64 prior to he was since out, dubiously, leg-before to the off turn of Naeem Islam and he dominated the opening partnership, that was a warn since the repute of, and the expectations on Kieswetter, the new boy. In integrity to Kieswetter he was carnivorous of the set upon initially, so that when he did face his initial round in general cricket it was from a spinner, rather than a discerning bowler, and on a pestilent delayed pitch, as well usually about as far private from his Taunton practice as it is probable to get.

Kieswetters begin to general cricket, then, was a unsatisfactory one. He ought to have been hold at the back of prior to he had scored, an outward corner off Shakib Al Hasan going to the range instead of in to the wicketkeepers gloves, and he should have been since out off the same bowler leg-before to his sixth ball. He staid down to fool around a integrate of robust shots prior to charity Rahim an easy stumping event off Naeem.

With both openers gone, and Kevin Pietersens infirmity opposite left-arm turn unprotected again, when a ostensible inside corner ballooned off a desk pad to slip, Bangladeshs hopes of an dissapoint complacent on how well Englands center sequence coped with a delayed representation and a phalanx of spinners, mixture that in the past competence have caused a wobble. Eoin Morgan referred to defect in character initially, but Collingwoods certainty shortly began to massage off and their partnership of 88, and an dominant thirty from Matt Prior, hermetic the deal.

These were all estimable contributions, but there was no disbelief who played the innings of the match. Tamim, a splay left-hander with oodles of self-belief and some-more than a spirit of arrogance, gave Englands century-starved batsmen a doctrine in how to erect a one-day innings. It was brimful with risk at the start, but thereafter beautifully tranquil during the center passage, before, once again, he upped the gait as the finish of the innings approached.

His initial fifty came in usually 32 balls, his second in 62, and there were thirteen fours and 3 huge sixes in all. He was quite serious on Ryan Sidebottom, pumping him by the covers on width, and, when he drifted straighter, rising him over long-on for 6 a pretentious strike bettered shortly thereafter when Stuart Broad transposed Sidebottom usually to be since the same treatment.

It was a formidable day for Sidebottom but one that competence have incited out improved had Morgan hold a candid catch at cover when Tamim had done ten. Tamins prevalence was about the usually disastrous thought of the evening: if he could have Englands conflict see so pedestrian, thereafter what awaits them on the sub-continent in subsequent years World Cup opposite stronger opposition?

Bangladesh Tamim Iqbal b Broad 125 Imrul Kayes c Wright b Bresnan fifteen Junaid Siddique c Kieswetter b Broad 0 Aftab Ahmed run out 2 *Shakib Al Hasan c Prior b Swann twelve †Mushfiqur Rahim run out twenty-two Mahmudullah c Collingwood b Swann 0 Naeem Islam c Morgan b Wright twenty-five Mashrafe Mortaza lbw b Swann 4 Abdur Razzak c Cook b Sidebottom 2 Shafiul Islam not out eleven Extras (lb 4, w 5, nb One) 10 Total (45.4 overs) 228

Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-71, 3-82, 4-112, 5-146, 6-146, 7-209, 8-214, 9-214.

Bowling: Sidebottom 7.4-0-46-1; Bresnan 9-0-48-1; Broad 9-2-46-2; Swann 10-0-32-3; Collingwood 7-1-39-0; Pietersen 2-0-9-0; Wright 1-0-4-1.

England *A N Cook lbw b Naeem Islam 64 C Kieswetter st Rahim b Naeem Islam nineteen K P Pietersen c Siddique b Al Hasan 1 P D Collingwood not out 75 E J G Morgan c Ahmed b Naeem Islam 33 †M J Prior not out thirty Extras (b 4, lb 1, w Two) 7 Total (4 wkts, 46 overs) 229

L J Wright, T T Bresnan, S C J Broad, G P Swann and R J Sidebottom did not bat.

Fall of wickets: 1-73, 2-74, 3-96, 4-184.

Bowling: Mortaza 6-0-37-0; Shafiul Islam 2-0-11-0; Al Hasan 10-1-42-1; Razzak 10-1-41-0; Naeem Islam 10-0-49-3; Mahmudullah 8-0-44-0.

Umpires: Nadir Shah and R J Tucker (Australia).