England's Pacemen Struggle Against the Power of Tamim

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CENTURION Tamim Iqbal smashed England to all parts of Lord's as Bangladesh rattled up their all-time record opening stand on day four of the first npower Test.

Tamim (103) and Imrul Kayes (75) made a mockery of England hopes for a quick kill after they had enforced the follow-on yesterday, with their opponents 282 all out and still 223 behind. The Bangladeshi left-handers, who had posted their country's previous best opening stand against England in the first innings, quickly demonstrated that was merely a 'sighter' as the tourists raced to 189-2 in only 43 overs off a chastened home attack.

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England's Pacemen Struggle Against the Power of Tamim

By the time Tamim finally fell - caught at deep backward-square trying to hook Steve Finn for yet another boundary - he had hit 15 fours and tw...

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