After a high-pressure chase of the largest total of England's World Cup, a continuous century by Shakib Al Hasan failed to guarantee a mild defeat for Bangladesh.
For 280, the Tigers were bowled out, still 106 runs behind the hosts, with seven balls left on Saturday at Cardiff.
For 280, the Tigers were bowled out, still 106 runs behind the hosts, with seven balls left on Saturday at Cardiff.
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The last batsman Mustafizur Rahman was caught behind the stumps by Jonny Bairstow as Jofra Archer claimed his third game wicket in the 49th over.
After hitting fifties in the past two World Cup games, Shakib achieved his 7th One-Day International century off 95 balls with nine fours and one six.
He was in when the Tigers lost Soumya Sarkar in the fourth over to Jofra Archer's devastating 143 kph delivery to the stumps.
Shakib coupled with Mushfiqur Rahim (44) after Mark Wood had Captain Eoin Morgan caught Tamim Iqbal (19) in the 12th over at the cover as the opener attempted to pull but ended up strikingly high on the bat.
The 106-run stand broke causing a free fall in the batting line-up of Bangladesh when Jason Roy took a diving catch off a Liam Plunkett delivery at the back of Mushfiqur after an outside edge.
The next one was Mohammad Mithun (0), who scored 26 against New Zealand and 21 against South Africa.
He walked off an Adil Rashid delivery for a wild shot as the necessary run level reached 11, but held out the ball to Jonny Bairstow's gloves behind the stumps.
Bangladesh still required 168 runs to win when Shakib dropped in the 40th to a Ben Stokes yorker and lastly took his total to 121.
The Tigers were looking for a defeat below 100 as Mahmudullah (28) established a partnership with Mosaddek Hossain (26), but the latter was out in a Stokes delivery when Bangladesh was 33 runs behind the mark.
Then Stokes claimed the wicket of Mohammad Saifuddin and Archer took out Mehidy Hasan Miraz.
England accumulated an enormous total of 386 for six with a 121-ball 153 by Roy aiming to break their two-game losing streak in the past World Cups against Bangladesh.
Roy's opening stand for the millennium with Bairstow took the Three Lions past the 100-run mark inside 15 overs with only 15 runs in the first five overs but 86 in the next 10.
Skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza supplied the Tigers with an unlikely breakthrough, helped by Miraz's sharp, low cover catch to reject Bairstow (51 of 50 balls) in the 20th over.
Joe Root (21 off 29) was the second to drop after another 12 overs, knocked out by Saifuddin when England passed the 200-run mark already.
The run began with an exciting two-fold victory in the 2011 World Cup at Chattogram.
The Tigers followed with a historic 15-run win over the present World Cup hosts to seal a place in the knockout phases of the Adelaide showpiece tournament's 2015 edition.
England's earlier World Cup victory against Bangladesh came in 2007 and they have now secured a second, as hot favorites clinically.
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