Tigers crumble to heavy defeat

Bowling became a big concern after the warm-up loss against Pakistan, but yesterday's 240-run loss to India also exposed Bangladesh's batting at the Oval.

Apart from Tamim Iqbal's century in the first warm-up, there were not many encouraging features to take into the Tigers' Champions Trophy opener against England tomorrow; rather the results in the warm-up matches made it abundantly clear that the Tigers will need to drastically improve in both departments.

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Bangladesh's batting department had no answer against the Indian pace attack and were eventually bowled out for 84 runs to suffer the heavy defeat. Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and inform Tamim Iqbal were rested for the match.

India used just one over of spin as their pacers shared nine wickets to shatter the Bangladesh batting line-up.

Bangladesh scored over 300 against Pakistan the other day but they were nowhere near their first warm-up match performance in reply to India's 324 runs. They were 22 for 6 in no time and after that it was merely a formality for India's bowlers.

Bangladesh's top order lacked the capacity to handle the movement from Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who claimed three wickets each.

Only one of the top seven managed to get into double digits, while three of them -- Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah Riyad and Mosaddek Hossain -- fell for ducks. The Tigers would not have made it as far as they did were it not for a 30-run partnership between Mehedi Hasan and Sanjamul Islam.

Earlier, bolstered by Dinesh Karthik's 94, India posted a challenging total of 324. There were early encouraging signs for Bangladesh after Rubel Hossain had sent Rohit Sharma back in the second over. Sanjamul came in four overs later to remove Ajinkya Rahane to leave India at 21 at two, but a 100-run partnership between Shikhar Dhawan, who scored a 67-ball 60 with seven boundaries, and the aforementioned Karthik steadied India.

Hardik Pandya also made a sublime effort with the willow, scoring a 54-ball 80 punctuated by six fours and four sixes.