England lose to Bangladesh and gets knocked out of Cricket World Cup at Group stage
ICC Cricket World Cup, 33rd Match, Pool A: Bangladesh v England played at Adelaide Oval, Mar 9, 2015
Bangladesh 275-7 50 overs, Mahamudullah 103, Mushfiqur Rahim 89, James Anderson 45-2, CJ Jordan 59-2;
England 260 all out 48.3overs, JC Butler 65, IR Bell 63, Rubel Hossain 53-4, Mashrafe Mortaza 48-2.
Bangladesh beat England by 15 runs.
England are out of the World Cup, after losing to out by a energetic Bangladesh team who delighted their thousands of their
supporters in the Bangladesh can now look forward to a quarter-final match at the MCG against India, the point that they
gained from their washed out match against Australia in Brisbane proving advantageous.
Jordan’s second over goes for fifteen, Mahmadullah, having survived an erratic start, is now timing his shots well and the first
delivery is pushed square and flies to the boundary at point, and the next flicked off his hip to long leg, where it’s stopped just
before the rope. Sarkar then drives through the covers for four and very nearly repeats the feat next ball, running three that takes
Bangladesh past 50. Mahmadullah is Bangladesh’s 29th ODI centurion, whose high score in ODIs before today was an unbeaten 82,
waited ages before reaching his maiden World Cup century.
Set 276 to win, England were rarely in the race, collapsing not against spin, but medium seam bowling that ripped out the England
middle order, including, out of form captain Eoin Morgan for a fourth-ball nought, his fifth duck in his last nine innings. England
collapsed from 97 for one became 132 for five in the space of 10 overs and the game was a foregone conclusion. Throughout, Bangladesh
were brilliantly led by Mashrafe Mortaza, their opening bowler who started by dismissing Alex Hales and later returned to remove
Joe Root, England’s ace batsman of this competition. Only a seventh-wicket stand of 75 between Jos Buttler 65 and Chris Woakes
unbeaten 42, that actually gave England a glimmer of a hope, but Buttler was caught behind for 65 with 38 still needed from 25 balls.
Chris Jordan was then given run out from the next ball, his bat adjudged to have bounced in the air after he had already grounded it,
diving back into the crease as the direct hit struck. England finishing on 260, 15 runs short.
England, must now skulk around in Sydney to play their final match against Afghanistan before making the trip home.