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Patriot games

AL-AMIN from The Oval
There are about five lakh Bangladeshis living in England and from East London to Newcastle in the north or Penzance, a small town in the southeast at the foot of the Atlantic, they are unmistakably making their presence felt.
The Bangladeshi community, mostly from Sylhet, leads a simple life and generally is a close knit unit. However, with the Bangladesh cricket team visiting this part of the world, they came out of their shells.
And at The Oval on Thursday they made their spectacular presence felt with most of them waving the red and green national flag.
While the English fans considered the game as an ideal outing and enjoyed beer under glorious sunshine, the Bangladeshi section took it as a rare occasion to having fun in the open air.
And those who got the elusive ticket could consider themselves very lucky because if you are not
coming to the ground you have a little chance to enjoy the game on television. Live cricket in England is only shown on Sky Sports and not many British viewers can afford that high-priced pay channel.
In Bangladesh one might get access to as many channels as he wishes for a nominal price, but in England you need to pay for each and every channel.
There were a few thousand Bangladeshi supporters at The Oval, which was perhaps the highest gathering so far. When Bangladesh played their first-ever Test at Lord's a noticeable presence of Bangla-deshis was present.
But in the second Test at Chester-le-Street in Durham not many of them were around to cheer the Tigers on.
There might be a good reason why Habibul Bashar's men were not playing the kind of cricket to draw them into the ground, but the problem lies somewhere else.
Most of the games started either on Thursday or Friday and these are the days of the week that the Bangladeshi restaurants remain as
busy as England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones behind the wicket. In England you will find hundreds of thousands of Indian restaurants. But once you step inside you will discover it is a restaurant run by a Bangladeshi, who is often a Sylheti.
B'DESH V ENG SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the Bangladesh innings against England in the opening match of the one-da triangular NatWest Series at The Oval in London on Thursday: BANGLADESH
Omar lbw b Lewis 13
Iqbal c Jones b Lewis 19
Ashraful c Flintoff b Lewis 0
Bashar c Jones b Harmison 19
Imran b Harmison 10
Aftab run out 51
Mashud c Jones b Harmison 1
Rafique c Harmison b Gough 30
Mortuza not out 29
Mahmud c Pietersen b Harmison 0 Nazmul c Jones b Gough 6
Extras: (lb-4, w-4, nb-4) 12 Total: (All out in 45.2 overs) 190
Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-19, 3-39, 457, 5-72, 6-76, 7-152, 8-159, 9-159
Bowler O M R W
Gough 8.2 0 33 2
Lewis 10 0 32 3
Harmison 10 0 39 4
Collingwood 8 0 36 0
Flintoff 9 2 46 0
ENGLAND: Trescothick, Strauss, Vaughan, Collingwood, Flintoff, Pietersen, Jones, Solanki, Lewis, Gough, Harmison.
Toss: England.
Umpires: Mark Benson (England) and Aleem Dar (Pakistan).