Lopsided England given lift by Trott's obduracy

A team featuring just four ICC World Twenty20-winners did not necessarily need to adapt significantly to five-day pace.

But, just in case anyone watching this low-key start to the international summer in a half-full HQ harboured expectations of quick-fix shot-making, Trott set the record straight in his 270-ball stay.

The result was a slow-burner form of domination, in a close-of-play 362-4 which meant no one could seriously quibble with cornerstone Trott's eccentric methods.

The No 3 shared an unbroken stand of 104 with debutant Eoin Morgan (40no) and 181 with Andrew Strauss (83), the captain effectively restating his authority after being rested for England's 2-0 victory over these same opponents on the sub-continent two months ago.

Like the statistics for Trott's innings, England's scorecard had a lopsided appearance.

Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell all missed out. But Trott and Strauss needed no second bidding to cash in on a pitch of good pace and even bounce. The second-wicket pair engaged in some necessary early caution to ensure 7-1 – after the early loss of Cook – did not turn into anything more embarrassing on a cloudy morning.

But once they had got their heads down, the rewards were theirs for the taking and it was not until past mid-afternoon that Bangladesh managed a second strike when Strauss fell short of what had seemed a certain hundred.

Trott duly did go to three figures, with a replica of the cover-driven four which had taken him to 50.

His stumps boundary count was 17 in a staccato innings which began with a flourish, appeared to gather momentum and yet lost it as he took 110 deliveries between 100 and 150.

If the uneven pace of the near six-hour tour de force was trademark Trott, so were many of the shots to his favoured scoring areas square with the wicket.

Strauss had played the percentages too until he eventually chose the wrong ball to cut and bottom-edged off-spinner Mahmudullah onto his stumps.

His disappointment was evident but less so perhaps than that of Cook, lbw in only the fifth over to a delivery from Shahadat Hossain which pitched on middle and straightened up the slope into the pads.

It appeared to hit Cook a little high, but umpire Asoka de Silva thought differently.

Trott was soon demonstrating his good form, on the back of 150 for Warwickshire in his previous first-class innings.

He was under way with a four guided past gully off Shahadat from just the third ball he faced and was quickly into double figures, hinting at a tempo he subsequently did not deliver.

By contrast, it took Strauss 14 balls to register his first run and he still had just a single to his name after half an hour of batting when he latched onto a short ball from debutant Robiul Islam for a pulled six.

A four off the hips followed two balls later, and it was increasingly clear England were back on course for a match-controlling total having been asked to bat first.

Trott and Strauss won their waiting game, as the Bangladeshis began to err after their acceptable initial efforts with a swinging new ball.

They badly needed more than their solitary early breakthrough, and there was a thoroughly uncompetitive inevitability to much of what followed.

Strauss eventually made a telling mistake, the very next ball after Mahmudullah thought he had him anyway, caught off his glove by an alert slip from a faulty sweep shot.

New batsman Pietersen was almost immediately climbing into a series of dismissive drives on the up through the off-side only to suffer a reprise of his winter tribulations against Bangladesh's slow left-armers, bowled off stump as he attempted to hit Shakib Al Hasan inside out.

It therefore fell to Trott and Bell, so prolific against Bangladesh on many occasions, to make sure the minor wobble against spin did not take hold either side of tea.

Bell did his bit but was unfortunate to receive a very good ball from Rubel Hossain which nipped back down the hill to beat his defence and knock back off-stump.

At 258-4, it was still not proven that England would make their class tell at the start of this two-match npower series.

But Morgan was assured on his first attempt at five-day cricket on his home ground.

The limited-overs eye-catcher accumulated without fuss, and waited 27 balls before unleashing his first reverse-sweep.

He also smashed a brutal pull at Mahmudullah straight onto the helmet of Imrul Kayes, forcing the short-leg off the field for treatment.

England v Bangladesh

Lord's: Bangladesh Won Toss

England First Innings

A J Strauss b Mahmudullah 83

A N Cook lbw b Shahadat Hossain 7

I J L Trott not out 175

K P Pietersen b Shakib Al Hasan 18

I R Bell b Rubel Hossain 17

E J G Morgan not out 40

Extras lb7 w5 nb10 22

Total 4 wkts (90 overs) 362

Fall: 1-7 2-188 3-227 4-258

To Bat: M J Prior, T T Bresnan, G P Swann, J M Anderson, S T Finn.

Bowling: Shahadat Hossain 17 2 66 1; Robiul Islam 14 2 80 0; Shakib Al Hasan 19 1 71 1; Rubel Hossain 16 0 74 1; Mahmudullah 24 3 64 1.

Bangladesh: Imrul Kayes, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique Jahurul Islam, Mohammad Ashraful, Shakib Al Hasan (capt) Mushfiqur Rahim (wkt), Mohammad Mahmudullah, Shahadat Hossain Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain.

Umpires: B F Bowden and E A R de Silva.