England blast out Bangladesh top order

Failures to hold on to catching chances led to two of the quintet of early successes as Bangladesh struggled to 63 for five after 15 overs.

Teenager Tamim Iqbal displayed his liking for full-blooded strokes in the opening over as he crashed two boundaries off James Anderson but the extra bounce in this surface compared to others in the Caribbean saw him perish in the second.

A climber from Sajid Mahmood proved Tamim's undoing as his throat-high jab looped the ball skywards and Paul Collingwood held the catch at point. An unbelievable comic moment accounted for the second success, in the sixth over of the innings, as the two captains took centre stage.

Left-hander Shahriar Nafees lobbed the simplest of catches to mid-on and was running to the non-striker's end as a formality to get himself closer to the pavilion as Michael Vaughan somehow contrived to drop the ball.

Habibul Bashar stood marginally out of his ground with head bowed, bemoaning the loss of a second wicket, when the groans of the crowd alerted him to the gaffe.

Vaughan threw to the wicketkeeper's end in disgust at himself and only realised he had effected the run-out when the jeers turned to cheers.

Luck was evidently with England, as two overs later, Nafees followed a wide one from Mahmood to edge behind and the ball popped up off wicketkeeper Paul Nixon's gloves into the hands of Andrew Strauss at second slip.

When another of the Bangladeshi youngsters Mushfiqur Rahim played down the wrong line in Andrew Flintoff's first over, England had fully vindicated Vaughan's decision to insert the World Cup shock specialists, who have defeated India and South Africa during this tournament.

And Mohammad Ashraful then nicked a beauty from Anderson, replacing Lancashire colleague Mahmood, behind to improve the mood further.