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ENGLAND REPORT CARDS: Every player graded following Bangladesh white-ball tour

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY looks back at the performances of every England player on the white-ball tour of Bangladesh

As England bid farewell to Bangladesh after their long, long winter, what did we actually learn?

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY: In Bangladesh, the signs of England's relentless schedule were plain to see. In a huge boost to England's World Cup hopes, Jofra Archer played five of the six matches but elsewhere opportunities to impress went begging

Error-strewn fielding performance comes back to haunt England in narrow defeat

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY: England were the architects of their own downfall in Mirpur, with Rehan Ahmed and Ben Duckett among the guilty parties in the field. Added together, the mistakes total far more than the 16-run margin of defeat

Bangladesh claim series as England's memorable winter draws towards forgettable end

NICK FRIEND: England have one just game to go in an epic winter, but they have stumbled to defeat in Bangladesh with an unbalanced squad that is unusually short on batting

England's familiar formula fails them as Bangladesh break their duck

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY: There's no denying their aggressive approach to batting has yielded results, they are world champions after all, but Bangladesh showed there is more than one way to skin a cat

Questions remain unanswered for England after mixed batting displays

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY: Although the match itself was a dead rubber, the third ODI in Chattogram represented pretty much the last chance for a number of players to impress in a 50-over setting ahead of the World Cup

England have created a team environment which allows newcomers to flourish

TAWHID QURESHI IN CHATTOGRAM: Rehan Ahmed became England's youngest men's ODI debutant when Adil Rashid handed him his cap and the fact that he was given a full ten overs was testament to England's willingness to experiment

Adil Rashid, Shakib al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and the ability to rise above the noise

TAWHID QURESHI IN DHAKA: The idea of cricket acting as a sanctuary or a cosy cocoon, far from the travails of real life, is a common one. It's why so many people play the game in the first place, at all levels

Indecisive Bangladesh pay the price

NICK HOWSON: Half-baked with the ball, timid with the bat: this was a disastrous performance from The Tigers with their unbeaten home streak on the line

A triumphant return for Mark Wood

ELIZABETH BOTCHERBY: The 33-year-old made his first ODI appearance since July 2021 and injected some energy into England's attack in his role as an impact bowler

Dawid Malan sticks to his method

TAWHID QURESHI: This is a new England and although Dawid Malan isn't the most obvious swashbuckling hero, he does possess a method that's invaluable in certain situations and in Dhaka, his knock was perfectly paced

Shakib, Saqib and a personnel shake-up: Things to watch as Bangladesh face England

NICK HOWSON looks ahead to the meeting of the two sides in a three-match ODI series shoehorned into the calendar but littered with a number of intriguing sub-plots in World Cup year...

Fractious Bangladesh and interrupted England poised for unpredictable, shoehorned series

TAWHID QURESHI IN DHAKA: Scratch below the surface and this seemingly low-key series, at the end of an arduous winter of globetrotting, promises much both in terms of entertainment and narrative for both teams