Marcus Trescothick became the first player to score a century in his 100th one-day match as England beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets with 25.1 overs to spare.

The Somerset batsman's 100 not out from 76 balls came in an undefeated opening stand of 192 with Andrew Strauss which made light of Bangladesh's total of 190 all out in 45.2 overs.

Trescothick was stuck on 99 for two overs and needed a misfield to reach the landmark and his third hundred at The Oval in ODIs.

It was also his third hundred in a row against Bangladesh following his tons in the Test matches at Lord's and Durham.

The win was also the 25th time a side has won an ODI game by 10 wickets but only the third time England have achieved the feat.

Strauss's 82* was his first fifty in 13 ODI innings following his lean periods on the tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa.

England had raced to 129-0 from 15 overs, with the openers bent on attack and carving boundaries to every corner of the ground.

The pair raced to their fifty partnership in the ninth over of the innings and their century stand in only 77 balls, leaving England requiring only 62 runs from the remaining 35 overs.

The opening bowlers Nazmul Hossain and Mashrafe bin Mortaza were both treated with total disdain.

In the eighth over of the innings Strauss drove Hossain for three boundaries, straight to long on, square to point and pulled to midwicket.

Mortaza, the best Bangladesh seamer in the Test series, could not get his length right and was repeatedly pulled and driven for boundaries. In the 11th over Trescothick drove him three times through midwicket for four.

The innocuous medium pace of Khaled Mahmud was introduced into the attack for the 12th over but he disappeared for 21 runs from it. During the over Trescothick's fifty came up from 41 balls with 10 fours. .

Strauss brought up the hundred with a pull for six from Hossain, who had switched to the Vauxhall End, in the 13th over.

Bangladesh were bowled out for 190 in 45.2 overs earlier in the day, a total which represented something of a recovery after they had slumped to 76-6 at one stage.

Most of the damage was done by the pace and bounce of Steve Harmison, who took 4-39 in his 10 overs, and the seam movement of Jon Lewis who added three wickets for 32 runs to his four victims at the Rose Bowl on Monday night.

The tourists' score was built around a seventh-wicket partnership of 76 between Aftab Ahmed (51) and Mohammad Rafique (30), just about the only batsmen who showed any application against the England seam and pace bowlers.

England: MP Vaughan (capt), ME Trescothick, AJ Strauss, KP Pietersen, A Flintoff, PD Collingwood, GO Jones, VS Solanki, D Gough, SJ Harmison, J Lewis.

Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar (capt), Javed Omar, Mohammad Ashraful, Tushar Imran, Aftab Ahmed, Khaled Mashud, Khaled Mahmud, Mohammad Rafique, Nazmul Hossain, Nafees Iqbal, Mashrafe Mortaza.

16 Jun, 2005