England seal win on third day

Steve Finn – with his second five-wicket haul in as many Tests – and James Anderson were the enforcers at Old Trafford, after captain Andrew Strauss made the tourists follow on.

They duly collapsed to 123 all out, replicating Saturday night's capitulation but without the 108-run start opener Tamim Iqbal gave them on day two.

England, who had scored a laboured win at Lord's last week and had to work hard for their series win in Bangladesh three months ago, asserted their superiority in Manchester.

First they batted deep to post a match-controlling 419, overcoming early blips on a spinner's pitch which confounded expectations of a much faster surface.

Then, after weathering a storm from Tamim, Graeme Swann and, yesterday, the pace attack picked off the Bangladeshis almost at will.

"I'm pretty happy with our work over the two Tests," said Strauss. "There is still work to do. We are not kidding ourselves we're the number one side in the world on what we've done in the last couple of games."

After a two-hour rain delay before their second innings, Bangladesh were vulnerable from the moment Tamim went, caught behind to Anderson from the second ball of the day.

Opening partner Imrul Kayes departed with an identical scorecard entry for the second time in two sessions. It was a near action replay, too, as he failed to keep his hook at Finn down, picking out the same catcher, Ajmal Shahzad, at deep backward-square rather than Saturday night's long-leg.

There was an almost apologetic inevitability about the next two dismissals, Junaid Siddique pushing Anderson straight into the hands of gully and Jahurul Islam caught behind for a duck trying to cut Finn, who ended with figures of five for 42 and the man of the series award.

With the top four gone for single-figure scores, favourable bowling conditions still prevailing under heavy cloud cover and the threat of Swann's spin still to come if necessary, the game was surely already up.

Mohammad Ashraful at least managed double-figures before failing to deal with Anderson's bounce, fencing a catch to second slip. Then debutant Shahzad got in on the act in his second over, ripping one between Shakib Al Hasan's bat and pad to hit the top of off-stump.

But Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah kept England at bay for the next ten overs, and Anderson was persuaded to take a well-earned break with figures of 10-3-16-3.

Prior endured an awkward day behind the stumps, and another four byes off Swann took Bangladesh past their worst Test total of 62.

England's short patience test ended when Strauss recalled Finn, who struck with the first ball of his second spell – a half-volley which Mushfiqur chipped to substitute fielder Karl Brown at mid-on.

Mahmudullah stayed long enough to ensure he would be by far top-scorer (38), and had just slapped Finn for two consecutive pulled fours when he went after another short ball, only to glove it behind to Prior.

Abdur Razzak also decided it was time for a little defiance, taking the long handle to Swann with two fours and a six in the next over.

But Finn then had Shafiul Islam caught low down at slip, before another attempted big hit from Razzak ended up in a skier well taken at deep mid-off by Eoin Morgan – with Bangladesh still 80 runs short of making England bat again.

It was an ignominious end to the series for the tourists, who simply appeared to run out of puff after defying many predictions by proving plausible opponents for most of the first match, but managing to do likewise for only short bursts in the second.