Bangladesh thrashed by Derbyshire

Tour match, Derby: Derbyshire 190-4 bt Bangladesh 189 by six wickets

Scorecard

Iqbal was run out without facing a single delivery

Bangladesh suffered another setback in their first warm-up game for the NatWest one-day series by losing to Derbyshire by six wickets.

The tourists lost with 11.5 overs to spare and now have just a game against Worcestershire on Sunday before facing England at the Oval on Thursday.

The tourists were bowled out for 189 after a below-par batting performance.

Derbyshire, fielding a full-strength side, easily overhauled the target, with Jonathon Moss top-scoring with 72.

In Bangladesh's innings, Nafis Iqbal was run out without facing a single delivery and they slumped to 19-3 before Habibul Bashar and Tushar Imran shared a stand of 80.

Tushar was run out for 40 and Bashar fell one short of his fifty, one of three victims for Nick Walker.

Mohammad Rafique made 36 but they were finally dismissed in the 47th over.

Bangladesh are hoping for better luck in the one-day game having lost both Tests against England in three days and the toss of the coin went their way as Bashar opted to bat first.

But he soon had cause to regret that decision as Iqbal's early exit was followed by the loss of Javed Omar and Rajin Saleh, who were both caught in Mo Sheikh's spell with the new ball.

The most damaging spell, however, came from Walker who claimed 3-15 in four overs as he removed Bashar, who pulled a long hop to mid-wicket, Khaled Mashud (one) and Aftab Ahmed (26).

Spinner Andy Gray weighed in with the wickets of Khaled Mahmud and Mashrafe bin Mortaza, but Rafique hit four boundaries to boost the total before he was last man out, caught on the run by Kevin Dean off Ant Botha.

Derbyshire's reply got off to a shaky start when big-hitting Nick Walker was run out for five.

But Steve Stubbings set the pace for the chase with 45 from 43 balls before Moss and skipper Luke Sutton stepped on the accelerator with a match-winning stand of 106.

Moss had scored 72 from 94 balls and had seen Derbyshire to within eight runs of their target when he skied Nazmul Hossain to mid-on.

But Sutton hit the winning runs to finish unbeaten on 42 and seal a comprehensive win from the first ball of the 39th over almost an hour-and-a-half before the scheduled close of play.

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Derbyshire: S Stubbings, G Welch, J Bryant, L Sutton (capt, wkt), J Moss, A Botha, M Sheikh, A Gray, N Walker, I Hunter, K Dean.

Bangladesh: Javed Omar, Nafees Iqbal, Rajin Saleh, Tushar Imran Habibul Bashar (capt), Aftab Ahmed, Khaled Mashud (wkt), Khaled Mahmud, Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Nazmul Hossain.