Tour of England 2010                  Captain : Shakib Al Hasan

Bangladesh’s 17th Test tour.

   (May -  July 2010)

Second Test-playing tour of England by Bangladesh

   (previous tour 2005)

As in 2005 Bangladesh played two Test matches at the beginning of the English season and had to put up with some chilly and damp weather. The Bangladeshis had another very young side but there was more experience than on some previous tours.

At Lord’s Shahadat persisted well and gained five wickets but Trott scored a double century against some ordinary bowling. Bangladesh were made to follow on but fought really well in their second innings, Tamim Iqbal leading the way with a fine century scored at better than a run a ball.

The star batsmen Shakib and Mushfiqur, the wicket-keeper, failed to score runs in the Test matches. In the second Test at Old Trafford Tamim Iqbal stood alone but the Bangladesh innings collapsed twice, losing ten wickets for 90 in the first innings and then eight wickets for 97 in the second.

Bangladesh achieved its first-ever victory over England in the one-day international at Bristol, but later suffered defeats against Ireland and the Netherlands. Coach Jamie Siddons blamed the hectic travelling and a lack of adequate preparation time for Bangladesh underperforming against the lesser teams.

All Bangladesh tours

Previous tour

to New Zealand 2009-10

Next tour

Zimbabwe 2011

Next tour of England

  scheduled for 2015

Members of the Test tour party

(15 + 1) 

Opening batsmen:  Imrul Kayes, Tamim Iqbal.

Middle-order batsmen  Jahural Islam, Naeem Islam, Junaid Siddique, Mohammad Ashraful, Shamsur Rahman(reinforcement)

Wicket-keeper/batsman: Mushfiqur Rahim.

All-rounders:  Shakib al Hasan, Mahmudullah

Slow bowlers:  Abdur Razzaq.

Fast bowlers:  Mahbubul Alam, Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Shahadat Hossain

Representation of teams:

B  -  Barisal (0)

C  -  Chittagong (2)

D –   Dhaka (4)

K  -  Khulna (4)

Rj  -  Rajshahi (4)

Rp  -  Rangpur (0)

S  -    Sylhet (1)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(27 May 2010):

 23 yrs 5 months.

ODI T20 member of the one-day squads for Nat West Series and other ODIs in Ireland and Scotland.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Mohammad Ashraful 53,  Shahadat Hossain 27,  Mushfiqur Rahim 21,  Shakib Al Hasan 19,  Tamim Iqbal 17,  Junaid Siddique 16,  Imrul Kayes 11,  Abdur Razzak 7,  Mahmudullah 7,  Rubel Hossain 7,  Mahbubul Alam 4,  Naeem Islam 4,  Shafiul Islam 4,  Jahurul Islam 1,  Robiul Islam 0,  Shamsur Rahman 0.

Tour Officials

Selectors   

Rafiq-ul-Alam (chief selector),  Akram Khan,  Naimur Rahman

Selection

Unavailable  : None.  21-year-old Tamim Iqbal fractured his left wrist at the end of 2009 and made the injury worse in the World Twenty20 but was able to tour.

Tour Party Announced  : 2 May 2010.

Not selected:  Mashrafee bin Mortaza, Mophammad Ashraful,  Aftab Ahmed and Suhrawadi Shuvo.

One-day squad announced  26 June 2010.

Mortaza was named as captain in preference to Shakib Al Hasan two days later

Time spent between selection and departure

  4 days

(2 May   - 6 April)

Travel   

Fast bowlers Robiul Islam, Shahadat Hossain, Mahbubul Alam and opening batsman Junaid Siddique travelled to England early.

Other members of the Test squad flew in from Barbados after their World Twenty20 matches and arrived in England on approx  7 May 2010. Mortaza, Syed Rasel, Aftab Ahmed and Suhrawadi Shuvo who were participating in that tournament, returned home

One-day replacement Mohammad Ashraful flew to London on 9 July and played the next day.

Time spent in England

  days

(May  - 22 July)

Reinforcements

On 20 May the tour management requested a batsman be sent when Shakib developed chicken pox and Tamim had a wrist injury; he left Dhaka on 17 May but Shamsur did not play a match

Injury ruled Raqibul Hasan (toe) and Mushfiqur Rahim (struck in the face by a ball) out of the one-day matches against England in July, so Naeem Islam and Mohammad Ashraful came in to the squad.  Saghir Hossain was chosen but did not replace Mushfiqur as wicket-keeper because of visa problems.

Raqibul Hasan had to pull out of the tour after fracturing a toe in the first ODI at Trent Bridge.

Fixtures/Results

⊕ (T20 I)Twenty 20 international

§  one-day international

† not first-class

Time spent in … before First Test: 

  days

()

Test appearances on tour

2  -   Imrul Kayes,  Jahurul Islam,  Junaid Siddique,  Mahmudullah,  Mohammad Ashraful,  Mushfiqur Rahim,  Shahadat Hossain,  Shakib al Hasan,  Tamim Iqbal

1  -  Abdur Razzak,  Robiul Islam,  Rubel Hossain,  Shafiul Islam

0  -  Mahbubul Alam,  Naeem Islam.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

∙  played for opposition

W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   A abandoned 

u unknown result

Bangladesh’s six previous Test tour results:

in New Zealand 2009-10 (1 Test)

- lost 0-1

 in West Indies 2009  (2 Tests)

- won 2-0

 in South Africa 2008-09  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

 in New Zealand 2007-08  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

 in Sri Lanka 2007  (3 Tests)

- lost 0-3

 in Sri Lanka 2005-06  (2 Tests)

- lost 0-2

Highlights

•   Shahadat Hossain took 5-98  and became the first Bangladeshi to have his name on the honours board at Lord’s

•   Tamim Iqbal scored 55 and 103 at Lord’s, so becoming the second player to have his name on the honours board

•   Tamim (103) and Imrul Kayes (75) shared an opening partnership of 185 at Lord’s.

•   Tamim followed up with another century (108) at Old Trafford.

•   Shakib Al Hasan took five wickets for 121 runs at Old Trafford.

Tour Summary

Return to Bangladesh

London   Q  Dhaka

The team arrived back in Dhaka on  23 July 2010

Departure from   

Time away from Bangladesh    days  

  (May to 23 July)

Finances

Postscript

Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal were sacked for disciplinary reasons a fortnight after the tour