Strauss still trying to figure out why England lost

The Tigers completed their first victory over England, by just five runs, in a thrilling finish at Bristol to complete a full house of victories over the other Test-playing nations. Such a result had looked unlikely at the start of play, with the tourists stripped of injured pair Mushfiqur Rahim and Raqibul Hasan and winless in 2010.

By halfway their chances were not reckoned to have improved greatly having posted a moderate 236 for seven, but a combination of gutsy bowling and loose batting saw England rolled for 231 with three balls remaining.

The result tied the NatWest Series at 1-1 and, with the decider being played at Edgbaston today, Strauss wants his side to swiftly move on from defeat and diagnose the areas they can improve.

"Bangladesh thoroughly deserved to win. They were going to beat us at some stage and we were just hoping it would be some stage in the future," he said. "But that has been and gone now. I wouldn't have thought we were complacent but at the same time we have to ask ourselves why. Was it just one of those days? Did we prepare well enough? Were we clear enough in what we were trying to do on that wicket? Did we have a hand in our own dismissals? If we did, we need to learn from that."