Dawid Malan bludgeoned 140 earlier than Reece Topley destroyed the Bangladesh high order on Tuesday as England bounced again from their mauling by New Zealand of their World Cup opener. In-form Malan belted 5 sixes in his career-best one-day worldwide rating and Topley took 4-43 because the defending champions gained by 137 runs after piling up 364-9 in Dharamsala. The complete might have been even greater however England subsided from 296-2 within the fortieth over as a consequence of some disciplined bowling by paceman Shoriful Islam and off-spinner Mahedi Hasan, who took seven wickets between them.

Bangladesh shot out of the blocks, with Liton Das hitting three consecutive fours off the primary over bowled by Chris Woakes.

But they have been rapidly decreased to 14-2, with Tanzid Hasan and Najmul Hossain Shanto unable to deal with the tempo and motion of the towering Topley, who changed Moeen Ali within the aspect.

That turned 26-3 when captain Shakib Al Hasan was bowled by the paceman and the costly Woakes then bought in on the act, attractive an edge from Mehidy Hasan Miraz, with England captain Jos Buttler taking the catch behind the stumps.

Despite the carnage, Liton seemed untroubled on the different finish, reaching his fifty off 38 balls as Bangladesh tried to rebuild.

But his advantageous innings got here to an finish within the twenty first over when he edged a slower ball from Woakes behind to Buttler and departed for 76.

Topley celebrated his fourth wicket when Mushfiquir Rahim (51) slashed him to deep third man, into the secure palms of Adil Rashid.

As the run fee climbed the end result seemed more and more inevitable and the sport ceased to be a significant contest, tapering off regardless of some late hitting.

Malan stars

Earlier Malan, who has displaced Jason Roy on the high of the order, hit his fourth ODI century in 2023 in a formidable present of timing and energy on the picturesque Himalayan floor.

His opening accomplice, Jonny Bairstow, reached a half-century in his one centesimal ODI however was bowled by Shakib for 52 to go away England 115-1 within the 18th over.

Former Test captain Joe Root picked up the place Bairstow left off, signalling his intent with a ramp shot for six.

Malan, 36, reached a trendy century in 91 balls earlier than chopping unfastened in devastating trend, smashing 20 runs off simply 4 balls throughout a Mehidy over.

Bangladesh, who beat Afghanistan of their opening match in India, lastly bought the breakthrough they desperately wanted when Mahedi bowled Malan.

Buttler, with Ben Stokes nonetheless out injured, promoted himself up the order and briefly flickered earlier than departing for 20 off 10 balls.

Root, who’s now England’s all-time top-scorer at World Cups, overtaking Graham Gooch, holed out for 82, top-edging a Shoriful ball that was caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur.

Then Liam Livingstone had his off-stump flattened first ball as England misplaced momentum.

Wickets stored tumbling — Shoriful completed with figures of 3-75 and Mahedi took 4-71 — however the complete proved effectively past Bangladesh.

The 10 groups on the World Cup play each different aspect as soon as in a single round-robin format, with the highest 4 groups progressing to the semi-finals.

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