England won the toss, and they asked Bangladesh to bat first in the third and final ODI (50-over) being played at Chittagong on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. The incident happened soon after Buttler was dismissed during England’s chase of 239.The verdict triggered lively celebrations in the Bangladesh camp, with several players exchanging words with the batsman as he made his way back to the pavilion, forcing the umpires to immediately intervene.
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Buttler is now expected to hand the reins back to Eoin Morgan, who along with Alex Hales missed the tour due to security reasons, for the ODIs in India after Christmas.
Bangladesh team has been impressive in the ODI series in last two years.
Sam Billings, making his first ODI appearance in more than a year, and Ben Duckett both made half-centuries as England’s makeshift top four put them in position to overhaul Bangladesh’s 277 for six. Both lodged half-centuries that represented their best England ODI scores.
The tourists won by four wickets in Chittagong, where Sam Billings (62) and Ben Duckett (63) led the way.
England captain Jos Buttler said: “In tough conditions, physically and mentally, we’ve stood up as a young side, and to come away with a series win is just reward for that”.
Yet that should not take away from what was a perfectly-paced innings from Buttler’s men, thanks largely to Billings and Duckett who kept up England’s rate at or near the 5.55 per over needed at the start of their reply and passed over the baton with England in nearly total control.
Billings spent five second on his haunches berating himself but at 127 for two – having shared 63 with Vince and 64 with Duckett, he had left England in a good spot, and seized his chance.
Fortunately for England, Rashid had the sort of day when the heavens bestowed kindness upon him. In his next over, Rashid also accounted for the wicket of Mahmudullah (6) leaving Bangladesh at 122 for three.
The match was taking place at all was a pleasant surprise. England after a lot of political dilemmas agreed on playing in Bangladesh.
Buttler was optimistic throughout that England could pull off the chase, and believes they might even have done so more easily. Stokes broke the stand, Imrul clipping him to square leg. Rashid struck in his first over, a short, sharply-spinning googly forcing Tamim to change shots at the last second, with the result a simple catch at cover. Sabbir Rahman, at least, received the high-class kill his sprightly innings deserved as Butter held an edge off a fierce leg break.
Hasan, who scored just four, missed the superbly turning delivery and so did Buttler but the ball deflected off his gloves to dislodge the bails with the batsman still out of his crease.
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Spinner Nasir Hossain trapped Vince leg before as Bangladesh’s first breakthrough before Mosaddek Hossain ended the innings of Billings, who hit four boundaries and a six. “But England were too good”, he said. But it’s unlikely that anyone else could have completed the task as well as Stokes and Woakes.
