England build huge lead

Pietersen: One of five wickets to fall

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England lead by 434 runs after three days play in the first Test against Bangladesh after choosing not to enforce the follow-on.

Replying to England's 599 for six declared, the hosts were eventually bowled out for 296 after losing their last three wickets without adding a run.

Alastair Cook opted to give his bowlers a break and extend the first innings lead of 303, but the tourists lost five wickets in the final session of the day as they stuttered to 131 for five.

The top four batsmen all got starts but Jonathan Trott and Paul Collingwood gave their wickets away cheaply and Michael Carberry and Kevin Pietersen fell to lbw decisions.

England started the day brightly with Tamim Iqbal adding just five to his overnight 81 before losing his off-stump to a beauty from Tim Bresnan.

However, that was enough to give him the highest Bangladeshi score against England, beating Aftab Ahmed's mark of 82.

Nightwatchman Shahadat Hossain was almost erroneously given out by umpire Rod Tucker before the decision was quickly overturned, though he did not take advantage. Instead he nicked to slip to give debutant Steven Finn a first Test wicket.

Unlucky

The 20-year-old, much improved from his tense opening spell yesterday, probed away for a second and was twice unlucky to see full deliveries squeezed past leg-stump.

Naeem Islam joined Mushfiqur in the middle and set about playing a more reserved foil to his buccaneering partner.

By now Mushfiqur (79) was using his feet well against Graeme Swann and driving confidently into the off-side from the seamers.

By the time he raised his bat for a well-earned fifth Test 50, 40 of his runs had come in boundaries.

The eighth-wicket pair re-established themselves after the lunch break and only looked troubled when Finn returned to the attack.

The Middlesex seamer found swing and a touch of movement off the pitch and twice found Naeem's edge.

But both men appeared to have the measure of Swann (5-90), who had a half-chance of a caught-and-bowled from Naeem, but instead endured a wicketless 14-over spell at a cost of 52.

Stuart Broad took the new ball as soon as it became available and would have removed Mushfiqur in his first over had Paul Collingwood held the catch at second slip.

Frustration

England used the harder ball to test the batsmen's resilience to short-pitched bowling - a tactic that paid off handsomely at the start of the innings - but Naeem hit two fine fours when Broad's length deviated.

As another edge fell short of slip and ran away for four, England's frustration was becoming apparent.

It was a needless run-out that eventually broke the partnership, Naeem (38) the victim of miscommunication in the middle and smart work from Michael Carberry in the field.

Swann then took two wickets in three balls as the innings collapsed with three wickets in four deliveries.

He owed the first, Mushfiqur, to a breathtaking catch by substitute fielder James Tredwell and completed his five-wicket haul by cleaning up Rubel Hossain.

Cook opted to take the field with Carberry rather than make the hosts bat again but neither the first innings centurion or his partner were fluent from the start.

However, they still brought up the 50 partnership without much trouble before Cook fell shortly afterwards, slog-sweeping Mahmudullah to Aftab at deep mid-wicket for 39.

Trott appeared set on 14 not out when he flicked a tame ball from Shakib Al Hasan straight to Junaid Siddique at mid-wicket, as England disappointingly lost their five wickets for 66 runs.

Pietersen appeared to be intent on making amends for his dismissal on 99 in the first innings, racing to 32 off just 24 balls with five sweetly struck boundaries and a flick over deep square leg forn six.

But he paid the price for attempting to slog-sweep Shakib again, and shortly after Carberry, who had rather laboured his way to 34, was also shown the finger when he tried to flick a straight ball from Abdur Razzaq (2-7) down the leg side.

Collingwood added just three before driving Razzak uppishly to Mahmudullah at mid-off to round off a miserable final hour for the batsmen.