And true to their fears the Tigers were bundled out for 108 fifteen minutes after lunch - Bangladesh's lowest score against England. The wreckers as expected were the four pacers with Matthew Hoggard claiming 4-42, Steve Harmison 2-38, Andrew Flintoff 2-22 and Jones 1-4.

England had a fifth bowler in off-spinner Gareth Batty but poor Batty, coming in place of injured Ashley Giles, did not get the chance to bowl a single delivery.

The avalanche started at 11.13 when Nafees Iqbal helped a rising ball from Harmison to first slip to his English counterpart Marcus Trescothick and finished exactly in two hours and 39 minutes.

But then there was a feeling that the four-pronged English pace attack was not really unplayable for the Bangladeshi batters. Hoggard and Harmison did bowl well after lunch but they really struggled to control the new ball. Not only that, Hoggard alone bowled five no balls compared to Harmison's three and Bangladesh reached 31 without any trouble.

But trouble started when skipper Habibul Bashar played an outrageous pull shot after facing just three deliveries. True that Bashar is a compulsive stroke-maker but that does not necessarily mean that he has got the license to cause the downfall of a team under world media spotlight for the wrong reasons.

"You should blame it on your captain because he started it all," said an English journalist.

Like Bashar, a level-headed Aftab also committed Hara-kiri and an over-smart Ashraful prepared for a premeditated pull shot only to see an yorker from Flintoff.

Javed played within himself to score highest 22 but he too departed playing a false shot against Jones.

Wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud is the only batsman who can consider himself unlucky after being adjudged leg before by Indian umpire Krishna Hariharan although television replays showed that the ball struck Mashud outside the off-stump.

And 16-year-old Mushfiqur Rahim, who scored 19 on his debut, was undone by the gem of a delivery from Hoggard with the ball leaving the batsman late only to knock the off-stump.

But the Bogra lad at least showed the temperament and technique needed to survive in a five-day game. He also struck three in a total of 12 boundaries in the Bangladesh innings.

Aftab struck highest five and Javed hit three. Ashraful struck the other, a miscued pull shot that sailed over the slip cordon.