England Beat bangladesh in 1st T 20 of series played in 2010

England was scheduled to play a 5 Match T 20 International series in Bangladesh in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 4 and 8. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, Bangladesh on 11th Mar 2010. England holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to BOWL first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 international match: Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan (c), Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mahmudullah Riyad, Imrul Kayes, Naeem Islam, Shafiul Islam

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20 international Match: Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook (c), Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Eoin Morgan, Ryan Sidebottom, Luke Wright, Graeme Swann, Craig Kieswetter, Matt Prior (wk)

England batted well and was able to post total of 185 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Kevin P who made 80 runs in 50 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 160 runs in 100 balls and E Morgan who made 36 runs in 18 balls with 4 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 186 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Bangladesh batted well but was unable to chase the target of 186 runs and was only able to make 160 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wicket and lost the game by 25 runs and with top contributions from S A Hasan who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 7 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 25 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of England with 4 more games to play.

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