Stokes produced a brilliant effort to complete figures of 4-26 on a pitch largely unresponsive to pace bowling, triggering a batting collapse as Bangladesh were dismissed for 248 to give England a first-innings lead of 45. An inspired Ben Stokes revived England with ball and bat on the third day against Bangladesh on Saturday to put the visitors firmly in control of the opening test in Chittagong. Stokes then walked in to bat with England tottering on 46 for four in the second innings and propped up his team with a fighting 85. Stokes swung the ball, adding the wickets of debutant Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi and Kamrul Islam to his tally. Moeen finished with 3-75 as Bangladesh lost their last six wickets for 27 runs.

Source: dna October 22, 2016 15:45 UTC