A lopsided, unbalanced England team, chosen for the experience they might gain as much as the success they might bring, was toppled by Bangladesh for the second time in four days. The home side revelled in familiar conditions and won the second Twenty20 match by four wickets. With victory the home side won the series with a game to spare.
With Rehan Ahmed making another debut – and taking a wicket with his second delivery – England produced glimpses of the spirit and quality that carried them to the T20 World Cup only months ago. There was a particularly uplifting bowling performance from Jofra Archer, and Afif Hossain’s bail was to be particularly uplifted after Archer bowled him so emphatically that it flew, flashing red in the dark-night sky, nearly to the boundary. That was a very literal highlight of an evening that, from an England perspective, had few.
