English national cricket team in Bangladesh in the 2016/17 season

The English national cricket team's tour to Bangladesh in the 2016/17 season took place from October 7th to November 1st, 2016. The international cricket tour was part of the 2016/17 international cricket season and included two tests and three ODIs . England won the ODI series 2–1, while the test series 1–1 ended in a draw.

prehistory

It is the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in England in the 2010 season . After a terrorist attack in Dhaka in July 2016 , the Tour of England was called into question. Bangladesh tried to allay concerns and refused to move the tour to a neutral venue. Australia had refused to hold a tour in Bangladesh the year before and also refused to let its U19 team travel to the U19 World Cup in Bangladesh at the beginning of the year. On August 25, 2016, the English association ECB decided that the tour should take place in Bangladesh, but the players were free to choose whether they want to take part in it or not. The English one-day captain Eoin Morgan and the inaugural batsman Alex Hales made use of this right . The main English fan association, the Barmy Army , also stated that it will not organize trips to Bangladesh for security reasons.

Stages

Chittagong Dhaka

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on June 26, 2016.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Chittagong Divisional Stadium	Chittagong	20,000	1st test; 3. ODI
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	Dhaka	26,000	2. test; 1st – 2nd ODI

Squad lists

England named their squad on September 15, 2016. Bangladesh named their ODI squad on October 2, and their test squad on October 16, 2016.

test		ODI
Bangladesh	England	Bangladesh	England
Mushfiqur Rahim ( K & wk ) Tamim Iqbal ( UK ) Mominul Haque Mehedi Hasan Nurul Hasan Shakib Al Hasan Shuvagata Hom Mosaddek Hossain Shafiul Islam Taijul Islam Imrul Kayes Mahmudullah Kamrul Islam Rabbi Sabbir Rahman Subashis Roy Soumya Sarkar	Alastair Cook ( K ) Joe Root ( UK ) Moeen Ali James Anderson Zafar Ansari Jonny Bairstow ( wk ) Jake Ball Gary Ballance Gareth Batty Stuart Broad Jos Buttler ( wk ) Ben Duckett Steven Finn Haseeb Hameed Adil Rashid Ben Stokes Chris Woakes Mark Wood	Mashrafe Mortaza ( K ) Taskin Ahmed Shakib Al Hasan Al-Amin Hossain Mosaddek Hossain Mosharraf Hossain Nasir Hossain Tamim Iqbal Shafiul Islam Taijul Islam Imrul Kayes Mahmudullah Mushfiqur Rahim ( wk ) Sabbir Rahman Soumya Sarkar	Jos Buttler ( K & wk ) Ben Stokes ( UK ) Moeen Ali Jonny Bairstow ( wk ) Jake Ball Sam Billings ( wk ) Liam Dawson Ben Duckett Steven Finn Liam Plunkett Adil Rashid Jason Roy James Vince David Willey Chris Woakes Mark Wood

Tour matches

October 4th scorecard	Fatullah	BCB Select XI 309-9 (50)	-	England XI 313-6 (46.1)
		England XI wins with 4 wickets

October 14-15 Scorecard	Chittagong	England XI 137-4d (45)	-	BCB XI 136-4 (44)
		draw

October 16-17 Scorecard	Chittagong	BCB XI 294 (74.4)	-	England XI 256 (78.2)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dhaka

October 7th scorecard	Dhaka	England 309-8 (50)	-	Bangladesh 288 (47.5)
		England wins with 21 runs

Second ODI in Dhaka

October 9 scorecard	Dhaka	Bangladesh 238-8 (50)	-	England 204 (44.4)
		Bangladesh wins with 34 runs

Third ODI in Chittagong

October 12 scorecard	Chittagong	Bangladesh 277-6 (50)	-	England 278-6 (47.5)
		England wins with 4 wickets

Testing

First test in Chittagong

October 20-24 scorecard	Chittagong	England 293 (105.5) & 240 (80.2)	-	Bangladesh 248 (86) & 263 (81.3)
		England wins with 22 runs

Second test in Dhaka

October 28-30 scorecard	Dhaka	Bangladesh 220 (63.5) & 296 (66.5)	-	England 244 (81.3) & 164 (45.3)
		Bangladesh wins with 108 runs

The victory of Bangladesh was the first victory against England in a test match after 16 years of Test status and the third team to win after Zimbabwe and the West Indies . The Englishman Ben Stokes was fined because he tried several times to irritate Bangladeshi players verbally.

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ECB monitoring Bangladesh security after Dhaka cafe attack ( English ) BBC. July 3, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
2. ↑ BCB rules out playing England at neutral venue ( English ) Cricinfo. July 10, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
3. ↑ Brydon Coverdale: Australia postpone tour of Bangladesh ( English ) Cricinfo. October 1, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
4. ↑ Australia pull out of U-19 World Cup ( English ) Cricinfo. January 5, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
5. ↑ Scyld Berry: England's tour of Bangladesh will go ahead - but how many of their players will be ready to go? ( English ) Telegraph. August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
6. ↑ Ali Martin: England's Andrew Strauss 'disappointed' as pair drop out of Bangladesh tour ( English ) Guardian. September 11, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
7. ↑ Nick Hoult: England to be without Barmy Army support for Bangladesh tour because of security fears ( English ) Telegraph. September 13, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
8. ↑ Mohammad Isam: England set to tour Bangladesh for two Tests, three ODIs in October ( English ) Cricinfo. June 26, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
9. ↑ England call up Haseeb Hameed and Gareth Batty for Bangladesh tour ( English ) Guardian. September 15, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
10. ↑ Mohammad Isam: Al-Amin picked for first two England ODIs ( English ) Cricinfo. October 2, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
11. ↑ Mohammad Isam: Sabbir named in Bangladesh Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. October 16, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
12. ↑ Mohammad Isam: Famous win must become a stepping stone ( English ) Cricinfo. November 1, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
13. ↑ George Dobell: Cook frustrated after Stokes receives fine ( English ) Cricinfo. October 30, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.