England cruise to series victory

England Under-19 396 (Hildreth 210) and 56 for 2 beat Bangladesh U-19 273 and 178 (Ahmed 91, Turner 4-47, Wright 3-25) by eight wickets, and lead three-match series 2-0
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The England Under-19 side completed a comfortable eight-wicket win over Bangladesh at Taunton, and thus took the series 2-0. Mark Turner picked up Bangladesh's remaining three wickets for the addition of only seven runs, and England then reached their small target of 56 for the loss of only two wickets.

It was always going to be a tough challenge for Bangladesh to get anything out of the match, but they made a disastrous start to the day. Turner had Nazmul Hossain caught behind by Steven Davies, and then bowled Ashim Chowdhury and Shahadat Hossain as Bangladesh were bowled out for only 178.

England needed only 7.4 overs to wrap up the win. Hossain did at least take two wickets, those of Joe Denly and Ravi Bopara, but Alastair Cook and James Hildreth, the first-innings double-centurion, took England to victory.