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Jason Roy: “It was great fun. I redeemed myself after the last game. Hopefully, this will be enough. There was a change in the gameplan against the spinners. They wanted to get early wickets but we didn’t allow them take early wickets. We knew we can always catch-up with shorter straight boundaries here. And with the wind. I feel, there is definitely something in it for the quicks especially with the new ball.”

* Opener Jason Roy (153) recorded the second highest score by an England batsman in World Cups and put on 128 runs for the opening wicket with Jonny Bairstow (51) as the hosts posted a massive 386/6 against Bangladesh in Cardiff.

Overs 50: England 386/6, highest of the tournament so far
13 RUNS! Liam Plunkett (27* off 9 balls) hit back-to-back fours off Mohammad Saifuddin in the final over.

Overs 49: England 373/6
18 RUNS! Liam Plunkett (15*) hit Mashrafe Mortaza for a six and two fours in the over.

Overs 48.2: FOURS! Liam Plunkett (9*) hits Mashrafe Mortaza for back-to-back fours. England 363/6

Overs 48: SIX! Chris Woakes (14*) hits another six off Mustafizur Rahman to bring up 350 for England – 355/6

Overs 47.3: SIX! Chris Woakes opens his account with a six off Mustafizur Rahman. England 347/6

Overs 47.1: OUT! Mustafizur scalps Ben Stokes (6). England 341/6

Overs 46.5: OUT! Mehidy Hasan strikes to dismiss Eoin Morgan (35). England 340/5

Overs 45.2: OUT! Mohammad Saifuddin gets rid of Jos Buttler (64). England 330/4
Buttler smashed four sixes and two fours during his 44-ball knock. Buttler also added a valuable 95 runs for the fourth wicket with skipper Eoin Morgan.

Overs 45: England 324/3
Eoin Morgan (31*) hit a six in the over, but Shakib Al Hasan made a good comeback to concede just nine runs in it. Shakib’s final figures: 10-0-71-0

Overs 44: England 315/3
Good, tidy over from Mustafizur Rahman, gave away just six runs in it.

* FIFTY for Jos Buttler off 33 balls, his 19th in ODIs. England 305/3 in 42.3 overs
Buttler hit three sixes and two fours to reach the landmark

* 300 comes up for England in 42.1 overs

Overs 42: England 298/3. Jos Buttler 49* & Eoin Morgan 16*

Overs 41.4: SIX! Jos Buttler (47*) smacks Mustafizur Rahman for a straight six. England 296/3

Overs 40: England 275/3. How far the hosts will go from here – 375 of 400?
Jos Buttler 30* & Eoin Morgan 14*

Overs 38: England 263/3
19 RUNS! 6, 4, 1, 1, 6, 1 – Jos Buttler (28*) changed his gears, smacked Mosaddek Hossain for two sixes and a four in the over.

* 250 comes up for England in 37.1 overs

Overs 34.4: OUT! Mehidy Hasan dismisses Jason Roy (153 off 121 balls). England 235/3
Massive WIcket. And what a knock from Roy. The opener smashed five maximums and 14 fours during his 121-ball innings. Roy’s 153 is the second highest by an Englishman in World Cups.

Highest individual scores for England in World Cup:
158 – Strauss v Ind, Bengaluru 2011
153 – Jason Roy v Ban, Cardiff 2019
137 – Amiss v Ind Lord’s, 1975
131 – Fletcher v NZ, Nottingham 1975
130 – Gower v SL, Taunton 1983

Overs 34.3: BOOM! 6, 6, 6 – Jason Roy (153*) smacks Mehidy Hasan for three back-to-back sixes. England 235/2

Overs 33: England 212/2 (Jason Roy 132* & Jos Buttler 3*). Time for drinks break

Overs 31.4: NOT OUT! Bangladesh lost the review. The ball was missing Jos Buttler’s leg stump. England 206/2

Overs 31.3: OUT! Mohammad Saifuddin cleans up Joe Root for 21. England 205/2
Big Wicket. Saifuddin broke the dangerous second-wicket stand of 77 between Root and centurion Jason Roy.

Overs 31: England 202/1
17 RUNS! 4, 4, 6, 1, 1, 1 – Jason Roy (126*) smacked Shakib Al Hasan for two fours and a six in consecutive balls as England scored 17 in the over.

* 200 comes up for England in 30.4 overs

Overs 30.2: FOURS! Jason Roy (118*) welcomes Shakib Al Hasan, who comes back into the attack, for back-to-back fours. England 189/1

Overs 29: England 181/1
Jason Roy 107* and Joe Root 19* bring up fifty-run partnership for the second wicket

Overs 28: England 174/1. Jason Roy 101* & Joe Root 18*

* HUNDRED for Jason Roy off 92 balls, his 9th in ODIs. England 167/1 in 26.5 overs
Roy hit a six and 12 fours to reach the landmark.

Overs 25: England 154/1 at the half-way stage. 350 on the card for the hosts?

* 150 comes up for England in 24 overs. Jason Roy 89*, Joe Root 7*

Overs 21: England 135/1
Another tidy over from Mehidy Hasan, gave away just five singles in it.

Mehidy Hasan Miraz takes the catch to dismiss Jonny Bairstow. (Reuters Photo)

Overs 19.1: OUT! Mashrafe Mortaza strikes to dismiss Jonny Bairstow (51). England 128/1
Mehidy Hasan took a brilliant catch jumping forward to break the threatening partnership. Bairstow hit six boundaries during his 50-ball innings and added a solid 128 for the opening wicket with Jason Roy.

* FIFTY for Jonny Bairstow off 48 balls, his 10th in ODIs. England 123/0 in 18.3 overs

Overs 18: ENG 120/0. Time for first drinks break

Overs 17: ENG 112/0
Tidy start from Mehidy Hasan, conceded just two singles in it.

* 100 comes up for England in 15 overs

End of Over 13: Shakib makes quick return for a second spell, with Mortaza hoping his go-to man to provide the breakthrough. But Roy (52*) and Bairstow (34*) looking in no trouble whatsoever. ENG 89/0

Fifty for Jason Roy, his 16th in ODIs, coming off just 38 balls with a SIX and a FOUR off consecutive deliveries. England 86/0 in 11.3 overs.

End of Over 10: From 15/0 in five overs to 67/0 to finish the Powerplay, this has been some build-up by Roy (38*) and Bairstow (27*), with 52 runs in the last five overs.

End of Over 8: The watchful start has now taken a solid shape as both Roy (33*) and Bairstow (18*) have got their eye in and playing some cracking strokes. Bairstow gathers pace with two fours off Saifudin to raise English fifty in 7.5 overs. 52/0

End of Over 6: First big over for England, as Roy (21*) hits Mortaza for a couple of boundaries, first one luckily just over the mid-wicket fielder and second a copybook stroke past mid-off. 26/0

End of Over 5: The tactic to begin with Shakib has worked to a nicety. Roy’s extra-cover drive fetches him three runs to end the over. 15/0

End of Over 3: England openers not taking any chances with Shakib. This is a good start for Bangladesh. 7/0

End of Over 2: Some appreciable swing for Mashrafe Mortaza as wind picks up at the Sophia Gardens. But he pitched one a bit too further up and Roy (6*) drove it straight as an arrow for four. 6/0

End of Over 1: A single from the opening over gets Roy and England going. Good, tight stuff from Shakib. 1/0

Sight-screen issue just before Jason Roy was ready to face Shakib Al Hasan. But all sorted in quick time. Set to begin. Jonny Bairstow at the non-striker’s end.

PLAYING XIs

England: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Woakes, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett, Mark Wood

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mehidy Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mustafizur Rahman

CAPTAIN TALK

Morgan: I don’t think this is a bad toss to lose consiering the amount of grass that has come off this wicket. We had a bady day against Pakistan. We played some good cricket against South Africa and hopefully we will play good cricket too.

Mortaza: We will bowl first. This pitch has been under cover for the last two days. We liked to but we are sticking with the same team. Last match was disappointing but hopefully we will bounce back. We have to play at our best to beat this England team.

TEAM NEWS: England bring in Liam Plunkett for Moeen Ali. Bangladesh are unchanged from their last match.

TOSS NEWS: Mashrafe Mortaza wins the toss and Bangladesh have decided to bowl first.

Hello! It’s Day 10 of the ICC World Cup, and action has once again shifted to Cardiff in Wales, where co-hosts England will take on a confident Bangladesh side.

The Bangla Tigers began well by upsetting South Africa and then almost put it past New Zealand. That makes them a dangerous team, and who knows it better than England. The English team suffered an agonising defeat against Bangladesh in the 2015 World Cup, which led to their exit from the tournament.
But this English team knows how to win consistently, but that doesn’t rule out the threat that Bangladesh pose under dark skies at the Sophia Gardens. Little-to-no forecast for rain, though.

Source : timesofindia