The home team flew to the port city ahead of the tourists so that they could avail early morning practice at the MA Aziz Stadium. England will reach Chittagong today. The second and final Test begins on Wednesday.

Before leaving for Chittagong Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud that said they would be a different side on their second visit to the busy city after seven months.

"We played our last Test in Chittagong against South Africa nearly seven months ago. We were a different side then. But now we have made real progress in the last five months. So, hopefully it will be another competitive game like Dhaka,' said a confident Mahmud.

Mahmud's men fought tooth and nail in the first Test at Dhaka before tumbling on the fifth and final day. The ending was disappointing because the home side lost their last four wickets rapidly and in doing so opened the door for Michael Vaughan's side to reach the victory with plenty to spare.

"Our primary aim is to improve our performance graph. We won't try not to repeat the same mistakes we committed in Dhaka," said the Bangladesh captain.

Mahmud was expecting the wicket at Chittagong to be flat as it was in April.

Although Mahmud was talking from prior experience, his coach Dav Whatmore was guarded about the nature of the pitch since it would be his first Chittagong experience.

"I have never been to Chittagong before. So, unless I go there and see the pitch, I can't say anything," said Whatmore while talking to The Daily Star Sport over his cell phone on Sunday afternoon.

He, however, hoped that his team would continue to show improvement in the next few days at Chittagong.

All-rounder Mushfiqur Rahman, who scored the highest 80 in two innings of the first Test and also captured the wickets of experienced Nasser Hussain and Mark Butcher, assured that he would build on his Dhaka performances.

Returning to the Test fold after two and a half years, the jovial cricketer from Rajshahi impressed everybody.

"I want to cement my place in the Test team. I got the chance after two and a half years. I did a lot of hard work to get into the senior team. So, I don't want to lose it again," said the 23-year old.

The committed cricketer said that he wasn't unhappy at missing his first Test half-century but was clearly disappointed with the way the innings folded on the fifth morning.

"I thought Rafique and Mashrafee would stay at the wicket for some time as they did in the first innings. But cricket is a funny old game," said Mushfiq predicting that the second Test will be more exciting.