ENGLAND’S LACK OF SPIN LAMENTED

FORMER captains Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain said England’s spinners had been shown up by Mehedi Hasan after the teenager bowled Bangladesh to their first Test match win. The 19-year-old off-spinner took six for 77 as Bangladesh beat England by 108 runs in Dhaka on Sunday to square the twomatch campaign at 1-1. When Hasan ended the match by having last man Steven Finn lbw for a duck it meant England, 100 without loss at tea on the third day, had collapsed to 164 all out. “It says everything about the dearth of good slow bowlers in England that the four they have chosen in this two-Test series have all been comprehensively outbowled by a 19-year-old newcomer,” said Hussain in his Daily Mail column. “Mehedi Hasan had never played Test cricket before Chittagong (the first Test) but he took 19 wickets in the series and looked on a different level to England’s spinners, whether it was a 39-yearold in Gareth Batty or a debutant in Zafar Ansari.”