Dawid Malan's match-winning 4th ODI hundred guided England to beat Bangladesh by 3 wickets

England's limited overs team, which arrived on tour to play a 3-match ODI and 3-match T20 series against Bangladesh, started with a win and defeated Bangladesh by 3 wickets in the first match played at Shere-Bangla Stadium. The Visitors took the 1-0 lead over the Hosts on Wednesday.

The match was low-scoring but not one-sided, but for the England team, its bowlers did not allow Bangladesh to get ahead in the match, and when the Bangladesh team was tightening its grip, the English opener Dawid Malan scored a match-winning hundred and took his side safely to cross the line in the 49th over of the match. He and Woakes shared an unbeaten partnership of 51 runs for the eighth wicket.

Bangladesh skipper Tamim Iqbal won the toss and decided to bat first in the first match. Opener Najmul Hasan Shanto 58 off 82 balls that included 6 fours, took the BAN side somehow to post 209 runs in just 47.2 overs. Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Moeen Ali and Rashid Ali took 2-2 wickets for England, while Will Jacks and Chris Woakes took 1-1 wickets.

In response, the England team, chasing runs, lost the wicket of their opener, Jason Roy, in the very first over on the score of 4. From here, the left-handed batter Dawid Malan kept one end for England and faced 145 balls and scored an unbeaten 114 with the help of 8 fours and 4 sixes, while the fall of wickets continued from the other end and but Malan smashed his 4th ODI century.

Apart from Dawid Malan, Philip Salt (12), Will Jack (26), Moeen Ali (14) and Adil Rashid (17) continued the partnership with Malan by playing small but important innings. The England team, batting in difficult conditions on a slow pitch, scored 212 runs losing 7 wickets in 48.4 overs and won the match by 3 wickets. The second match of the series will be played on Friday at Mirpur ground.