Bangladesh beat England by 16 runs to seal 3-0 T20 series win

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Bangladesh 158-2 (20 overs): Das 73 (57), Shanton 47* (36)
England 142-6 (20 overs): Malan 53 (47), Buttler 40 (31)
Bangladesh won by 16 runs
Scorecard

England stumbled to a 16-run decision successful the last T20 arsenic Bangladesh completed a 3-0 bid cleanable sweep.

Chasing 159, England were successful power astatine 100-1 arsenic Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan added 95 for the 2nd wicket successful Mirpur.

But Bangladesh fought backmost erstwhile the brace fell successful consecutive balls successful the 14th over.

The unit built connected England's mediate bid and they finished connected 142-6 aft losing 5-28 successful the abstraction of 35 balls.

Bangladesh's 158-2 was acceptable up by opener Litton Das' explosive 73 from 57 balls and Najmul Hossain's Shanto's 47 not retired from 36.

Ben Duckett dropped Das connected 51 and Rehan Ahmed dropped a elemental accidental from Rony Talukdar connected 17.

But England salvaged immoderate pridefulness astatine the decease arsenic Sam Curran and Chris Jordan restricted Bangladesh's scoring, conceding lone 27 runs from the last 5 overs.

Despite losing Phil Salt for a duck successful the archetypal over, Malan and Buttler led an awesome counter-attack connected a slow, wearing pitch.

But Mustafizur Rahman changed the crippled erstwhile Malan was caught down for 53 and Buttler was sensationally tally retired for 40 by Mehidy Hasan.

The bid concludes England's wintertime and the white-ball broadside volition not beryllium successful enactment again until August.

England's batting stumbles again

It has been a hard bid for England's batters arsenic skipper Buttler and manager Matthew Mott person attempted to juggle a bowler-heavy squad due to the fact that of absences.

England are without cardinal batters from their T20 World Cup triumph past twelvemonth successful Ben Stokes, Alex Hales, Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone.

Bangladesh comfortably chased 157 successful the archetypal crippled earlier England crawled to 117 successful the second, and successful Mirpur it was a akin concern arsenic the hosts handled the conditions better.

Das capitalised connected England's sloppy fielding to deed 10 fours and a six but Bangladesh besides ran smartly, perpetually pushing for a 2nd tally and scampering singles erstwhile boundaries were not connected offer.

But England faltered adjacent erstwhile the run-rate was nether control. Even aft Buttler and Malan fell successful succession, the equation was an achievable 59 from 40 balls.

The transportation did commencement to deteriorate to favour the bowlers, but England kept searching for boundaries alternatively of adjusting and accumulating.

In the important 17th implicit the masterful Taskin had Moeen Ali caught connected the bound and Duckett was bowled attempting a heave down the ground.

Knowing the players they person to return, England volition not beryllium excessively concerned, but their batters volition person learned invaluable lessons from the circuit with the 50-over World Cup taking spot successful India successful October.

More to follow.

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