Phil Salt and Dawid Malan both need to bat in the top three, but they soaked up balls that denied Duckett, Moeen Ali and Sam Curran the opportunity to whack spin, their speciality. Their six batsmen have quality, but do not gel. A promising position was surrendered with just 21 runs scored in the final 25 balls. After Duckett and Buttler fell in successive balls with four overs to go, the innings nosedived. Not even an 80-run opening stand, then 47 from 25 balls between Buttler and Ben Duckett for the third wicket were enough to power them to a commanding score. The shortness of the batting order came back to haunt England after Jos Buttler lost his seventh toss out of seven this year. It would be a stretch to say this is the start of a tilt towards the T20 World Cup in the Americas next year.
This series is England’s first since becoming T20 world champions, but ODIs are the priority for now.
On Wednesday night, he scored 145 from 63 balls there. Having already used 35 players this winter, they decided, perfectly reasonably, not to fly someone in to play a game or two, or to keep Jason Roy here when he is earning more money in the Pakistan Super League. Perhaps fatigue has kicked in for the selectors, too. This is the final assignment of a long winter, the ninth series across six tours to five countries. When the uncapped Tom Abell and then the coming man Will Jacks were both ruled out with injury, England did not bother to bolster their batting. Not even a spirited bowling effort could save them from a six-wicket defeat, completed with two overs to spare. England (156-6 Buttler 67) lost to Bangladesh (158-4 Shanto 51) by six wickets with 12 balls remainingĮngland’s team for this series looks light on batting on paper and, in the first of three games, they looked light on batting on the pitch, too.
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