Duckett sparkles in England warm-up

Ben Duckett fortified his case to end up Alastair Cook's opening accomplice in England's Test arrangement against Bangladesh, scoring a familiar fifty in their drawn warm-up match against the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI on Saturday.

Duckett hit 59 off 63 balls with six limits before he resigned as England put 137-4 on the board in 45 overs after remain in chief Joe Root won the hurl and chose to bat at the MA Aziz Stadium in the port city of Chittagong.


Root drove England as general Test commander Alastair Cook returned home to go to the introduction of his second youngster.

The principal day of the match was surrendered without a ball being knocked down some pins because of a wet outfield, driving both groups to consent to play a 45-over diversion.

Duckett, who additionally scored two half-hundreds of years in England's 2-1 win in the first one-day arrangement, effectively outshone young person Haseeb Hameed, the other contender for the opening space in the Test group. Hameed scored just 16.

Gary Ballance was unbeaten on 27 while Moeen Ali made 24 preceding he turned into the third casualty of leg-spinner Sabbir Rahman, who completed with 3-27 to assert some authority in the Bangladesh Test squad.

The BCB XI achieved 4-136 in 44 overs as experienced Shahriar Nafees beat scored with 51 keeps running for the home side.

Thirty-nine-year-old Gareth Batty, who is competing for a place in the England line-up with Ali, Adil Rashid and Zafar Ansari, guaranteed 2-31 knocking down some pins 10 overs.

Ansari neglected to have an effect in his eight overs.

Bangladesh and England will play two Tests in the arrangement with the initially starting in Chittagong on October 20.

Prior to the primary Test, England will play an additional two-day warm-up match against the BCB XI, which will begin on Sunday.

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