Craig Kieswetter scores century on debut as England defeat Bangladesh XI

By Derek Pringle in Fatullah Published: 4:02PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

Impact: Craig Kieswetter (right) grabs possibility with both hands Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Craig Kieswetters initial diversion as an Englishman tricked his Southern African origins utterly he went out and done 143, his tip ever measure in one-day cricket as England trounced a Bangladesh Cricket Board XI by 112 runs.

Real locals of Albion simply dont have known themselves similar to that, though Kieswetter did embrace a tours value of fitness in the routine after being forsaken 4 times. Yet, in between the fumbles (he was twice put down prior to hed done 30), there were sufficient monumental shots for Alastair Cook, Englands behaving captain, to some-more or less endorse Kieswetter as a shoo-in for subsequent Sundays opening one-day international.

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"He"s given himself a really great possibility of personification on Sunday," Cook pronounced after the match. "You speak about preference and Craig has done a large explain for that spot. Obviously no preference has been done yet, but I"d be really astounded if he"s not there at the tip of the sequence on Sunday."

Cook, who done a sprightly 56, common an opening mount of 127 with his new tyro, and whilst not usually eclipsed by him, there was a sheer disproportion in the approach the round came off their particular bats. When he picks the length quickly, Kieswetter, who favours the off-side, strikes the round with a virginity means to couple of and a little of his sixes, generally the dual over long-off, trafficked well over a hundred yards.

"He is up there with the majority appropriate in how clean he hits the ball," pronounced Cook. "He strike the spinners over the tip for 6 and to have the capability to do that as clean as he did shows what a illusory bent he is. Hopefully we won"t set up him up as well majority in the media."

Some hundreds, similar to Kieswetters, broadcast an sparkling new talent. Others, similar to the perfect one after played by Paul Collingwood, do it with the kind of meaningful curtsy that has seen him turn the wicket opponents esteem majority after Kevin Pietersen, dimissed on Tuesday, ironically, for a first-ball steep in Englands sum of 370 for seven.

Collingwood, who common a 125-run mount with Kieswetter for the third wicket, additionally valid he is no slump when it comes to branch on the power. Although frequency as eye-catching, he suited the half dozen sixes struck by Kieswetter with England handling a robust fourteen in their innings - the majority given their run-spree opposite New Zealand in Napier dual years ago.

Collingwood loomed large in that diversion as well after creation a 26-ball fifty, the fastest ever for England. On Tuesday, his second fifty here was even quicker, receiving usually twenty-three balls, but afterwards his eye was in and the bowlers, as they had been all innings, were inexhaustible in their complicity. Later, when the home side batted, Englands conflict were to infer far some-more trained with Graeme Swann, abetted by a little inexhaustible umpiring decisions, superb with 4 for 44.

The usually player in Englands patrol to have toured Bangladesh previously, you have to wonder at at how Collingwood still manages to be the cause of himself for use games such as this. For cosseted cricketers, the sub-continent can niggle afar prolonged prior to the regions machiavellian spinners get to you and yesterdays match, at the Osman Ali stadium, would have tested even an old palm similar to him.

Apart from the 90-minute outing to the ground, in Fatullah, that took in all the gloomy odours of pleasant fermentation, the venue, even with a outspoken 5,000-strong crowd, contingency have been one of the grimmest on the circuit, the unprepared bombard imitative a Roman hurt but the appreciative proportions. England cannot nonetheless bid it farewell and they lapse there for an additional use compare on Thursday.

With his IPL contract, Collingwood is correct sufficient not to have inauspicious criticism about the region. But if he, Pietersen and Eoin Morgan, the alternative dual England players with contracts to fool around in subsequent months contest are formulation to lift out following last Mondays security inform gathered by Reg Dickason, they are keeping it to themselves.

"The IPL is an issue for the players but a doubt, but I"m certain things will be resolved in a week or so," pronounced Cook. "I can think behind to the time when we were determining about going behind to India in the arise of the Bombay electrocute and it was a really difficult decision. It will be a difficult call again this time for those concerned and it is for them to take the right recommendation on it."