England v Bangladesh: Buttler’s boys look to bounce back

They could not have pitched up at a better place to find their hitting range, with the stadium sitting 1,500 metres above sea level and benefitting from thin mountain air that can help the ball fly further.

Liam Livingstone blasted nine sixes here as he struck 94 in 48 balls at this year’s IPL and he has already indicated a willingness to go for a repeat. He is unlikely to be alone.

In the England v Bangladesh betting odds, Coral have a #YourCall option of 3/1 for Livingstone to hit at least three sixes.

Bairstow joins the hundred club

England opener Jonny Bairstow will collect his 100th ODI cap when the team sheets are handed over, the 27th Englishman to do so and the sixth in the current squad.

Only one of those has ever celebrated the milestone by scoring a hundred – current batting coach Marcus Trescothick in 2005. The opponents that day? Bangladesh.

Bairstow is 5/4 to score a half-century and 3/1 to be England’s top run scorer.

A familiar foe

England place a lot of store on their engine room of all-rounders – Moeen Ali, Livingstone and Sam Curran – but it is their opponents who boast the number one all-rounder in the ICC rankings: Shakib Al Hasan.

The wily left-armer first faced England as long ago as 2007 and has proved a thorn in their side over the years. He scored a fine hundred at Cardiff in the group stages of the 2019 tournament and earlier this year snapped up four for 35 in Mirpur, including three of the top four.

He took three Afghanistan wickets at this ground on Saturday and will have a good feel for bowling in these conditions.

In the England v Bangladesh betting odds, he is 10/3 to take at least three wickets again, 3/1 to hit a half-century and 9/1 joint-favourite to be named man of the match.

England need to reclaim safety net

Net run-rate is not the glitziest or most glamourous of concepts, but occasionally it can be the difference between reaching the knockouts and booking an early flight home.

With nine group games to sort the wheat from the chaff, banking results remains the most important thing but England do have a grisly figure of minus 2.149 to contend with in the right-hand column of the standings. They were not just beaten by New Zealand, they were hammered with more than 13 overs left.

At some stage they will want to work on improving that number and that means collecting a few handsome wins of their own. There is no time like the present.

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