England beats Bangladesh by 137 Runs and secures their first World Cup 2023 victory after a shaky start against New Zealand. England's third-highest score 364/9 in 50 Over World Cups. England got a huge victory against Bangladesh, and healed their NRR a bit. I think its very bad performance with the bat for the Bangladeshis, like most of the matches, they failed to bat 50 overs once again on a pure batting surface. Mushfiqur Rahim played a fighting fifty 51(64) against England in Dharamsala. Mahedi Hasan has done well 8-74-4 towards the end took wickets of Malan, Brook, Curran and Rashid
LOL. after their heavy defeat against New Zealand, now they have something to cheer about. The main issue with England is that they don't have a quality spinner in their team. Adil Rashid is not up to a level, where he can create difficulty to world class batsmen. And without a good spinner, they can't win matches on Indian pitches. Anyway, since they won against Bangladesh, now they have the momentum with them. So we can expect them to perform well in the remaining matches. For them, the next match is going to be against Afghanistan.
Bangladesh lost to England thanks to a devastating innings by Dawid Malan. Had they dismissed the opener early on I believe England would have been restricted to 320. Despite a good performance yesterday, luck favored England, with several balls in the air from the start and chances of being caught but not being caught and Bangladesh missing half chances for several run outs. If they could have kept England between 300 and 320 runs, then Bangladesh would have done well in this match.
You may say how good it is to have a target of 300 to 320 runs where Bangladesh could not score 250 runs, when the target was less then their pressure was less so that they could bat with a cool head which Bangladesh batsmen did not get. Another thing is that Bangladesh lost four early wickets which set them back a lot in the game.