ANDREW Strauss wants to draw a line under Saturday’s landmark defeat to Bangladesh.

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 all out 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?

‘‘With the 11 we had on the park we had enough to win this game of cricket. We were ten, 15, even 20 per cent off what we should have been out there.’’ A contributing factor was the loss of Ian Bell with a fractured metatarsal after only ten overs in the field. He went to hospital and returned to the ground walking gingerly on crutches.

As England’s collapse unfolded it became apparent that Bell would be needed to bat if possible and he eventually hobbled to the crease with a runner with six balls remaining.

He was in obvious pain just coming down the steps of the pavilion but his efforts were in vain as Jonathan Trott fell three balls from the end with six runs still needed.

Explaining the decision over Bell, Strauss said: ‘‘We had no particular plan to use him unless we had ten or 15 runs to get.

‘‘We spoke to him about what he felt, could he play some shots, and he was very keen to get out there.’’ Bell is likely to be out for at least six weeks and England responded by calling up Ravi Bopara.

Scoreboard

England v Bangladesh At Bristol

Bangladesh

Iqbal c Kieswetter b Shahzad ...............18

Kayes c Collingwood b Shahzad .........76

Siddique c Kieswetter b Broad .............21

Islam c Kieswetter b Shahzad ..............40

Shakib Al Hasan b Collingwood ........... 1

Mohammad Ashraful run out ................14

Mahmudullah not out ...........................24

Mashrafe Mortaza run out ....................22

Abdur Razzak not out ........................... 1

Extras (lb4 w12 nb3 pens 0)........19

Total 7 wkts Innings Complete (50 overs)...............................236

Fall: 1-19 2-65 3-148 4-149 5-174 6-196 7-233

Did Not Bat: Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam.

Anderson 9-0-46-0. Shahzad 10-0-41-3.

Broad 10-0-60-1. L J Wright 6-0-30-0. Yardy 10-0-39-0. Collingwood 5-0-16-1.

England

A J Strauss c J Islam b Rubel Hossain .33

C Kieswetter c J Islam b R Hossain ......20

I J Trott c Jahurul Islam b Shafiul Islam .94

P D Collingwood lbw b Abdur Razzak ..10

E J Morgan lbw b Abdur Razzak ........... 1

M H Yardy b Shakib Al Hasan ..............10

L J Wright c Siddique b Shafiul Islam ...15

A Shahzad b Shakib Al Hasan ............. 5

S C Broad c S Al Hasan b M Mortaza ...21

J M Anderson c & b M Mortaza ............. 2

I R Bell not out ................... 0

Extras (lb7 w13 pens 0)...............20

Total (49.3 overs) ...................231

Fall: 1-49 2-58 3-86 4-90 5-115 6-146 7-166 8-209 9-227

Bowling: Mashrafe Mortaza 10-0-42-2. Abdur Razzak 10-0-43-2. Shafiul Islam 9.3-3-38-2.

Rubel Hossain 9-0-52-2. Shakib Al Hasan 10- 0-40-2. Mohammad Ashraful 1-0-9-0.

Bangladesh beat England by 5 runs.