England Beat bangladesh in 1st ODI of series played in 2016

England was scheduled to play a 3 Match ONE DAY International Series in Bangladesh in 2016. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 7th Oct, 2015.

England won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah, Mosharraf Hossain, Imrul Kayes, Shafiul Islam, Sabbir Rahman, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Taskin Ahmed

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Adil Rashid, Jos Buttler (c & wk), Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, James Vince, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Jake Ball, Ben Duckett

England batted very well and was able to post total of 309 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Ben S who made 101 runs in 100 balls with 8 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 101 runs in 100 balls and Ben Duckett who made 60 runs in 78 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 77 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 310 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and to take lead in this 3 ONE DAY match International series 1-0.

Bangladesh batted well but was unable to chase the total of 310 runs and was able to make only 288 runs in 47.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores by I Kayes who made 112 runs in 119 balls with 11 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 21 runs and leads the 3 Match ONE DAY series 1-0.

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