Bangladesh won the toss and
chose to bat first against England and
scored 1793 for 4
Bangladesh has decided to bat first
after winning the toss and scored 179
for 4 in the second test against
England in Dhaka on Saturday.
James Tredwell was given a Test-match
debut as England ditched their four-
bowler policy and played the extra
bowler.
Michael Carberry makes way having
himself played his first Test in the
last match and Jonathan Trott will open
with Alastair Cook. Intriguingly Kevin
Pietersen will bat at No. 3 for the
first time in his Test career, slotting
into a position that has troubled
England since Mark Butcher last played.
The new batting line-up will have to
wait, however, after Bangladesh won the
toss and opted to bat first. Having
been roundly criticised in the first
Test for his decision to field first,
Shakib Al Hasan duly made the right
call today, backing his batsmen to set
a positive tone and his spinners to
make an impact in the fourth innings.
Bangladesh made no late adjustments to
the side they named on Friday. There
are two changes from the side that
played at Chittagong with pace bowler
Shafiul Islam replacing the
disappointing Shahadat Hossain, while
Jahurul Islam makes his debut in the
middle order in place of Aftab Ahmed.
Speaking after the first Test,
Pietersen warned that too many flat
pitches was undermining interesting
Test cricket. It was an important point
but this Dhaka wicket looks as
remorselessly flat as Chittagong,
though there is some hope that the
drier surface here will deteriorate
more come the latter stages of the
game.
Bangladesh 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul
Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Jahurul
Islam, 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Shakib Al Hasan
(capt), 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 8 Naeem
Islam, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Shafiul
Islam, 11 Rubel Hossain
England 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2
Jonathan Trott, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4
Paul Collingwood, 5 Ian Bell, 6 Matt
Prior (wk), 7 Stuart Broad, 8 Tim
Bresnan, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James
Tredwell 11 Steven Finn.
--Cricinfo.com, Dhaka
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