England captain Alastair Cook hails Eoin Morgan century against Bangladesh

Published: 7:43AM GMT 03 March 2010

Centurion: Eoin Morgan spared England"s blushes opposite Bangladesh Photo: AP

Morgan scored 110 not out to see England home by dual wickets from a wily on all sides at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, attack sixteen off the penultimate over and winning it with a six.

Those fireworks done light of the ungainly mark Bangladesh had corroborated the tourists in to as they sought to turn the three-match array 1-1.

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And Morgan"s patience and carry out in heading the assign towards their 261-run aim won organisation regard from his skipper.

"It was a illusory knock, it had everything," pronounced Cook, who additionally done 60. "He picked his time to strike the boundaries, he built a partnership with Matty (Prior) that was a illusory one and afterwards he came in to his own in the last powerplay.

"Eoin was probably the coolest chairman out there since I positively wasn"t, I was pacing up and down the sauce room.

"I"m not the most appropriate cricket viewer when it gets moving but it was an amazing, relieved feeling and a unequivocally great chase.

"A win is a win. We longed for to win the array and we have, right away we wish 3-0."

England"s incident when Morgan grabbed the win was even some-more unsafe than the batsman knew.

Stuart Broad was due in at No eleven after experiencing annoy in his behind and, unbeknown to Morgan, Prior was padded up to stick on him in the center as a runner.

Fellow seamer Ryan Sidebottom had already been ruled out of the one-day array with a thigh damage prior to play, whilst Test player Graham Onions is thought to be carrying behind difficulty of his own.

Cook pronounced the border of the side"s fitness concerns was not nonetheless clear.

"Broady we"re not certain about. Obviously he has a bit of a bad behind but we need to give it twenty-four to 48 hours for it to solve down prior to we can give any correct assessment," he said.

"Hopefully it calms down. Siddy (Sidebottom) is out of the subsequent one-dayer and hopefully he can get behind to fitness. I"m not nonetheless certain just how critical his thigh is but hopefully the subsequent 48 hours will discuss it us that too."

Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan, who returned 3 for 32 in a excellent spell of delayed left-arm bowling, looked emptied after entrance so close to violence England for the initial time.

But notwithstanding that, Shakib attempted to pull positives.

"The boys are unhappy since we were flattering close," he said. "When they lost their eight wickets we had the most appropriate possibility to win the diversion but Morgan played unequivocally well.

"We are disappointed, but implicitly up since we played unequivocally great cricket, we threw ourselves on the belligerent and we attempted the turn best.

"We attempted the best, the bowlers bowled really well and if the umpires had been some-more unchanging may be things would have left the way."