England win three-match series 2-1
England win with 13 balls to spare
Woakes (27*) hits six to seal victory
Duckett 63, Billings 62, Stokes 47*
Bang: Mushfiqur 67*, Rashid 4-43
Billings c Kayes b Mosaddek 62 (Eng 127-2)
Mashrafe Mortaza either has a very short attention span or he's got something against the scorer. Or maybe he's a captaincy genius! Mosaddek returns to the attack and strikes immediately. Billings sweeps... but can only find the man at deep backward square, who crouches to take a simple catch. Billings drops to his haunches. He's gutted, the lad. That's the one Bangladesh wanted.
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Ben Martin: David Graveney was a parent/coach at my school. He told me off once for going through his son's kit thinking it was my school kit.
Tim Sutton: Kapil Dev once stopped our car in Amsterdam to ask directions. My Indian colleague was so excited he forgot how to speak.
Taskin 4-0-18-0
Taskin has the most luxurious hair of any player on display today. Wonderfully thick and bouncy. He's also got a bead of sweat on his brow, but it's nothing compared to Duckett, who looks like he's been pushed in the swimming pool fully clothed. Just a couple of Billings runs from that accurate over from Taskin, who beats the outside edge with the last delivery.
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Playing in a grassroots game in Germany during my year abroad in 2003. One of our middle order batsmen guides one towards the boundary, with a fielder in hot pursuit. In the process of diving he unfortunately collided with a child supporting the opposition, who was knocked out cold. A lot of panic ensued, including the child's father throwing a bratwurst at the fielder. Ironically, the child woke up and vomited all over the whites of his father. I never played cricket in Germany again!
Will Prentis (still playing cricket but fortunately back in the UK!)
Required run-rate: 5.7
Thanks for that, Tim. You know we always like to know about your chance meetings with cricketers. The more mundane the better, in fact. No situation is too trifling for BBC Cricket.
Horribly wild from a charging Billings, who edges a full-blooded drive - kitchen sink, toilet and bathtub in that stroke - to third man for four. A rare rash moment. Head back on the rest of the over, which yields nine.
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Randomly bumped into David Graveney on my train home last night.
Tim
Image source, Getty ImagesBillings 55, Duckett 26
Billings has to get his skates on to make his ground as Shakib flings himself to his right before throwing lamely, with his right arm - the wrong one - at the non-striker's end. Billings comfortably in in the end. That's the fifty partnership - excellent work so far. And I stress 'so far'. Long way to go yet for England.
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Jack: Sam Billings is unbelievable, only our side at the moment would of been able to keep him out for so long.
Benjamin Watts: Billings wanted to tour Bangladesh to get a 50-over (his preferred format) Eng opportunity. Taking it at the moment. Out of position too.
Panic averted, Duckett blocks the final two balls, sandwiching a leg-side wide from Shafiul.
Eng 110-1
The ball would have hit the stumps, according to ball-tracking. The crowd roars.... But the ball, crucially, hit Billings outside off stump. He survives.
Billings on 52
Pace from both ends as Shafiul Islam gets another burst. Billings comes down the seamer and he's playing way, way across the line. The ball thuds into pad, the Bangladesh players go up but the umpire says no. The hosts want another look, though...
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During the late 90s, playing for a team in West London, games against a particular rival tended to be lively on the verbal’s front but came to a head in one match when their opening bat took umbrage with the bowling fare he was being served. After taking one on the gloves he promptly dropped his bat, tore off his gloves and marched down the wicket and shouted the pugilist’s refrain, 'Do you want some?' Handbags with our opening bowler ensued before calm, albeit uneasy, was restored. Bizarrely, the incident was deemed noteworthy enough for The Sun to report it on the following Monday under the tremendous strap line 'I'm going to fill you innings'
Smorgs
A change in tack from Bangladesh, with pace bowler Taskin recalled. A sign that England are starting to get on top? As I type that, Duckett is drawn into fencing at one angled across him. The crowd find their voice again. Only one off the over. I'm enjoying this game.
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Cruising after about 20 overs on a flat deck and very small straight boundary. The oppo aren't bowling well and the keeper is having a mare. Bowler bowls one down legside and the keeper misses it and it goes for 4 byes. Cue a lot of expletives and then the bowler attempted to high kick the keeper in the chest with spikes followed by a few thrown punches. All the while we watched the home team fighting amongst themselves from the boundary rope. Away days.
Rajan
Eng 107-1
Well batted Sam Billings. Returning to the side, playing only his sixth ODI and promoted to open, he has set the example for his team-mates to follow, not only with his strokeplay but with the pace of his innings. A single dropped into the off side off Shakib takes Billings to his maiden ODI fifty.
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Surely it was the unseemly spat between the heavyweights Robert Croft and Mark Ilott at the Battle of Chelmsford.
Tony Cocozza, London
Nasir 4-0-29-1
Nasir has three men saving one on the off side but it matters not to Duckett, reverse-sweeping with power for a couple to the man on the fence. And that's even better - finer, hit harder and worth four. These two batsmen have mixed excellent horizontal-bat shots with superb use of the feet. Very un-English. Ten runs off the over and the 100 is up.
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Greg Double: If someone had a gun to my head and said "someone has to score 30 runs to save your life." I'd genuinely go Vince over Root.
Billings 45, Duckett 15
I wonder if someone has dared Bangladesh captain Mortaza to make a certain number of bowling changes..? Mosaddek takes a blow, the wily Shakib-al-Hasan is back on. The scorer must be cursing. Four singles, easy as you like. This game is evenly poised.
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A young opposing batsman was given out caught at short extra cover in a tense derby match. As wicketkeeper/captain I queried, “You hit that into the ground didn’t you?” to which he replied in the affirmative. I informed the umpire that we would be withdrawing our appeal. An over or two later a similar shot resulted in a similar catch. A thug on the boundary shouted, “Are you going to appeal for that one as well?” I marched over to the boundary remonstrating strongly that I had just incurred the wrath of my entire team by calling the home batsman back and suggested that he was an idiot who knew absolutely nothing about cricket. On returning to the middle I asked the batsman who that (strong expletive) idiot was. He replied that it was his father. I immediately apologised but the batsman affirmed: “No, you’re right, he is a (same expletive) idiot.”
Andy Genney, Barton-upon-Humber