England v Bangladesh - live!

Ian Bell
Ian Bell: Time to step up. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images

11th over, Bangladesh 60-1, Kayes 13, Siddique 12: Broad returns and immediately Siddique drives down to long on for a four. Simple boundary - the first since the third over - with no England fielder there. And there's another boundary, Broad's delivery too short, glancing off Kayes' gloves behind the wicket and over Kieswetter's desperate, flailing jump. Broad's having a bit of a stinker in this over, Kayes edging him and taking advantage of there being no slip. Another four. "No, no," says John Starbuck. :Imax makes you look bigger, not 3D. About twenty feet tall in some versions. Even IRon Bell would be a giant. To some, he already is. Metaphorically."

10th over, Bangladesh 47-1, Kayes 9, Siddique 3: Something approaching drama there, as Bresnan's ball is touched away by Siddique who decides to run - Bell storms in and tries to run out Kayes, who just gets to the crease in time. Not out. England appeal for lbw again, but Bresnan's ball to Siddique is comfortably outside the line of leg stump. I think we're going to see some powerplay now. "If the number of people actually at Trent Bridge is any indication, there aren't too many people bothered about watching cricket in 3D," parps Erik Petersen.

9th over, Bangladesh 43-1, Kayes 9, Siddique: After the blistering early start by England, this is quite muted now. Broad menaces Siddique with a bouncer that he tries to divert away to leg gully, but he gets nothing on it - lucky because it went straight into the hands of Kieswetter. David Lloyd feels the wides are due to England bowling a tad too straight. Maybe, he probably knows more than me. "What's the octopus' verdict on this match?" asks Gary Naylor. He says it hasn't got going yet.

8th over, Bangladesh 43-1, Kayes 9, Siddique 1: Nothing doing here, apart from another wide, England's fifth. Bresnan, with a good length, isn't offering Bangaldesh much to get too jiggy with and England have loosened up. "John Starbuck's gnomic comment about 3D cricket making "little blokes feel good about themselves." Could he elucidate? asks Stephen Cummings. "At 5' 6" I presume I am one of the little fellows of whom he speaks, yet fail to see how watching the great game in 3D would have a beneficial effect on my self esteem." You tell me Stephen. You tell me.

7th over, Bangladesh 42-1, Kayes 9, Siddique 1: That was probably the right decision, the techie wizards showing the ball was just about destined for the stumps. How will they react now? Tamim was, up until that point, spanking England round the park. Siddique gets off the mark, glancing Broad away for a single. "I am not 3D-Ready, nor am I England-Ready in any sporting contextafter our football display," says Ian Copestake. "The people of Trent Bridge are also not convinced that our prowess is anything other than an artifically generated illusion enhanced by the wearing of glasses."

Wicket! Tamim (28) lbw b Broad Broad comes back into the attack at the start of the seventh over and with his first ball he ends Tamsim's reign of terror. A full delivery tempted Tamim to try the drive, but the delivery was too pacy for him, and it went straight into his pads, probably the right decision to dismiss him. In comes Junaid Siddique.

6th over, Bangladesh 40-0, Tamim 28, Kayes 8: A decent over here from Bresnan, conceding few runs until sending a fourth ball wide to gift another single. But Kayes is certainly not flourishing as much as Tamim yet, despite an impressive drive away to square leg.

5th over: Bangladesh 37-0, Tamim 27, Kayes 7: Stuart Broad comes into the attack now for England. England have squeezed their fielding positions a little. Broad's run-up is ominous and laced with intent but his first delivery is judged to have flown wide by Nigel Llong. And again, another wide. England's bowlers are not on form so far. And on the fourth ball, Tamim sweeps the ball off to deep gully, and Ian Bell scampers off, just about preventing another four. England still aren't finding a way to contain him. "3D will find its niche, just like Imax did - specialist format for a keen minority," says John Starbuck. "I don't think I'd want to see cricket at more than life-size, though it could help little blokes feel good about themselves."

4th over: Bangladesh 31-0 Tamim 23, Hayes 7: Bresnan's back and his first ball is pulled away for a pair to gully by Hayes. Not much doing for the rest of the over though, Bresnan troubling Kayes a little more with his next few balls. "I saw one of those football matches screened in 3D in a pub a couple of months back," says Andy in Tooting. "It was OK, but I will confess that the mixture of midday drinking and the ball seemingly about to hit me in the face was a bit too much. So I closed one of my eyes and went back to 2D. Simple."

3rd over, Bangladesh 28-0, Iqbal 23, Kayes 2: There's a nice symmetry to Bangladesh's batting so far - 11 off Anderson and 11 off Bresnan. England are pretty wayward so far and Strauss looks a little troubled by Bangladesh's decent early start. This is a quieter over though, Anderson finding more length with his deliveries and Tamim and Hayes have to settle for a couple of singles only.

2nd over, Bangladesh 22-0, Tamim 20, Kayes 1: Tim Bresnan comes in for Anderson but his delivery is short and wide and Iqbal again drives it away for four. And another four! This time Tamim sweeps behind and England are on the run here early on. You'd think Iqbal might give his batting partner, Kayes, a chance, but oh no! Selfish, if you ask me. A single gives Kayes, another left-hander, his chance to shine now but he's not as flashy as Tamim, settling for a mere single on his first ball with a sweep to square leg. "Not the best picture you could chose of the Shermanator," says Andy Stiff. "It looks like he's been bowled in it." There's a fair chance he was.

1st over, Bangladesh 11-0, Tamim 11, Kayes 0: James Anderson gets us off, and Tamim Iqbal begins as he means to go on, smacking the ball away with a square drive to cover for a four with his first shot. And again he repeats the trick, this time just letting the delivery fly away off the side of his bat and finding the boundary. Not the greatest start for Anderson on a pitch that may favour Tamim. This is quite the onslaught from Iqbal, and Anderson has a puzzled look on his face already. He finishes up with a single.

Here come the teams. England are in a huddle. Intimidating. Jerusalem blares out over the tannoy - Trent Bridge looks pretty empty.

Anyone like 3D?

"3D cricket on Sky Sports is far more terrifying than Jaws, simply down to the protruding nature of Nasser Hussain's nose," offers David Dickson. "I'd keep ducking."

"For the past how ever many months, I've had to put up with my work colleague banging on about how 3D is the future of television and how he is definitely going to buy a 3D TV," blasts Matthew Turland. "Personally, I think it is a gimmick used by films that aren't good enough to keep you interested with their plot and nothing would give me greater pleasure than shoving a pair of 3D specs down his throat. As you can guess, I'm a little frustrated today so I'm glad the cricket is back to help me wind down a bit. And for the record, Avatar is just Dances With Wolves in space."

Weather update: It's a hot day at Trent Bridge but there's a bit of a breeze going - Sir Ian Botham says there's a lot of bounce in the pitch, which may well favour England's attack.

BBC weather mapThe weather. Photograph: BBC

More on 3D: "I'm not even bothered about HD let alone 3D," says Lori McConnachie. "We all know it's not real. Like Shane Warne's 'hair'."

Today's teams:

England: Andrew Strauss (captain), Craig Kieswetter (wk), Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Michael Yardy, Luke Wright, Tim Bresnan, James Tredwell, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

So, as expected, Ian Bell comes in for Kevin Pietersen. James Tredwell replaces the rested Graeme Swann.

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Junaid Siddique, Raqibul Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mahmudullah, Faisal Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza (captain), Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam.

Umpires Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and NJ Llong, TV umpire, RK Illingworth,Match referee J Srinath (India),
Reserve umpire RA Kettleborough.

An email: "I saw Jaws 3 many moons ago in 3D," writes Tom Banks. "You first had to get the specs from the back of a Shredded Wheat packet if I remember correctly. Both the film and the specs were rubbish. However, I look forward to a "3D reboot" of Jaws where you are practically swimming with the malcontent fish."

Bangladesh have won the toss and have chosen to bat. 1-0 them. Ballsy.

England of course made sure that series win over Australia didn't look too accomplished - keep everyone on their toes - by losing the final two matches. 5-0 would have been a little too special. Keep it at 3-2. Retain a smidgen of calamity. Bangladesh, meanwhile, haven't won an international game yet this year, and that may not change here ...

David Gower's just appeared on my screen and he's just arrogantly announced that this match is being shown in 3D. Not in King's Cross it's not, Gower. Anyone seen anything in 3D? I refused to see Avatar because it sounded like two hours of The Smurfs in 3D.

Afternoon. So this is weird. In this country of self-loathing and under-achievement and sporting ineptitude, it turns out we are actually quite proficient at something. Cricket. One-day cricket at that. Fresh from sort-of-thumping Australia 3-2 in their ODI series over the past couple of weeks, England are now Kings of the World! Feels odd, doesn't it? Not quite right. So that's where we are - and now it's Bangladesh, sure to be England's latest ODI victims. England should win this comfortably today, but then I feel that prediction was made a couple of times rather brashly during the month of June (let's not go there).

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