England has successfully made 300-plus chases six times, four of them in the last two years.
Woakes and fellow all-rounder Ben Stokes were allowed to miss England s recent home ODI series with South Africa to play in the Indian Premier League. 10 and 11 – for his highest ODI score, off 129 balls. Mustafizur got the respect he deserved but Hales was harsh on the experienced pair of Rubel and Shakib, hitting them down the ground with disdain.
The 28-year-old has taken 89 wickets at an average of 31.60 and an economy rate of 5.58, while he has scored 800 runs for his country in one-day internationals at an average of exactly 25 and a strike rate of 86.86.
Morgan, who remained unbeaten at the crease, smashed eight boundaries and two sixes in his 33rd half-century. It was a whirlwind innings from the skipper who ended up smashing eight fours and two sixes.
Both teams feature several survivors from Bangladesh´s 15-run shock win at Adelaide which condemned England to a woeful first-round exit from the last World Cup. “And it is a worry when he goes off the field and can’t come back on and bowl”. Meanwhile, when Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim got themselves in and took the team to 163 for 2 after the end of 30 overs, their camp would have expected to at least double the score after 50 overs.
Tamim and Sarkar gave their side a 56-run opening stand, Tamim combined with Imrul Kayes for 39, then paired with Mushfiqur for 25 entertaining overs in sunny conditions. Tamim skied Liam Plunkett to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and Mushfiqur was caught in the deep for 79 off the next ball.
He and Hales milked the Bangladesh bowlers for all they were worth, barely breaking sweat in the process, a barrage of ones and twos punctuated by the odd drive, cut or pull to the fence. After consecutive fours took him to eleven, Sarkar clipped a Jake Ball delivery straight to Moeen Ali at square leg only to be put down.
After the batsman crossed, Mushfiqur then chose to also try and launch Plunkett but only picked out Alex Hales at deep long-on as he walked back to the dressing room for 79.
Incoming batsman Root then joined Hales and added 159 runs for the second wicket in 25.3 overs before Hales was dismissed by Sabbir Rahman.
Tamim put on 166 runs for the third wicket with Mushfiqur, passing his ninth one-day worldwide hundred from 111 balls as he paced an assault which brought Bangladesh 83 in the last 10 overs – despite the dismissal of both set batsmen to successive Plunkett deliveries. The final combination they tried in Ireland saw them using allrounder Nasir Hossain at No. 8, but it was hard to understand why they would do so in the first match of a global event they had reached by playing five bowlers regularly.