England completed a 2-1 series win over Bangladesh with an emphatic win over the Asians in the third and the final ODI of the series played at Birmingham. Earlier, Bangladesh had equalled the series by winning the second game of the series. 
Bangladesh won the toss and rather surprisingly chose to field first. The cloudy nature of the ground may have prompted that decision, and the early dismissal of Craig Kieswetter almost proved it to be a correct one. Unfortunately for Mashrafe Mortaza, who had scalped the wicket, the second wicket partnership between Andrew Strauss and Jonathon Trott took the wind out of the Bangladeshi sails. 
Rather surprisingly, it was the usually slow-starter, Trott who got off to a good start, and timed the ball well start off with a couple of boundaries. Andrew Strauss slammed a six but the going was not as quick as the English would have liked when they ended the first Powerplay at 45/1.
Even in the Bowling Powerplay which was taken straightaway, only 20 runs came, that included three fours off a Shafiul Islam over. Over the next few overs, Strauss and Trott, still unseparated, continued milking the bowling around, with the odd boundary punctuated in the middle. The rate was maintained at more than five runs per over and without losing more than that one early wicket, the pressure had begun to build on the visitors.
England went into the last 20 overs at 157/1 with both the batsmen having completed their half centuries. A 300-plus target loomed large, and it was in the 36th over that the final push for the acceleration really came. This was also when Strauss had reached a well-deserving century off 106 balls and with the pressure to get to the ton off his shoulders, Strauss exploded. There were two straight overs of 14 runs each, and then, the Batting Powerplay was taken.
The English record for the best partnership for any wicket in ODIs was broken at 224 and not before long, Trott had brought up his century as well. Mortaza picked up a couple of wickets off successive deliveries including Trott’s but Strauss kept going like a horse. By the time the Powerplay had ended, the momentum had been taken by England and the run-rate seemed to be spiralling towards more than six.
Paul Collingwood and Eoin Morgan fell quickly, and Strauss’ innings was ended when he was on 154 by Rubel Hossain, but it was the comeback man, Ravi Bopara who provided the final sting. He smacked a 16-ball 45 including a last over of the innings which saw 28 taken off it, and propelled the English side to 347/7 in the fifty overs.
Chasing down 348 was never going to be easy, and the early wicket of Tamim Iqbal put paid to the Bangladeshi hopes. Ajmal Shahzad then picked up his second wicket, as Imrul Kayes walked back and despite a third wicket stand of 40 between Junnaid Siddique and Jahurul Islam, the side was never in the hunt.
Wickets fell regularly, and apart from a 42 by Mahmudullah, none of the others managed to get more than 20 and the side collapsed to 203 all out in 45 overs. Bopara scalped a four wicket haul but Strauss won the man of the match award for his 154.
Strauss also went on to win the man of the series award.