It was however not the England captain Michael Vaughan who tossed the coin rather a tiny tot flipped it in mid-air and the outcome was the same, the home captain won it and decided to bowl on a greyish wicket.

It was then left for Bangladesh's batsmen to try and survive against the fiery four-pronged pace attack, which they failed. The tourists were liming at 66-5 by lunch and when they returned after the break their innings folded quickly at 104 in 39.5 overs, four runs short of what they had achieved at Lord's.

England responded with 269-3 in 48 overs with Marcus Trescothick hitting a blazing 151, his back-to-back ton against Bangladesh and the first century at the Riverside ground.

At stumps the home side took a lead of 165 and will be looking for some quick runs on the second morning to fulfill the wishes of their captain Vaughan, who wanted to win the second Test inside two days and only to become the fifth captain to have achieved it since the Second World War.

The Bangladesh batting was once again a sorry tale with opener Javed Omar hitting 37 and wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud making 22, the other batsman who reached double figures. Steve Harmison, the blue-eyed boy of Durham, lived up to his promise that he would have a field day on his home ground finishing with five for 38. Matthew Hoggard scalped his 150th Test wicket when he had caught Javed down the leg side. Hoggard finished with 3-24. Simon Jones and Andrew Flintoff shared the other two wickets and once again Gareth Batty, the lone off-spinner in the England team, failed to bowl a single delivery after his no show at Lord's in both innings.

England needed only 20 overs to cross the hopeless Bangladesh total, but at the expense of two wickets compared with one at Lord's.

Mashrafee-bin-Mortuza captured the first two wickets like he did at Lord's. The right-arm paceman dismissed Andrew Strauss for eight and had Vaughan caught behind for 44.

But there was no stopping Trescothick, who followed up his 196 in the first Test with another blazing hundred. The Somerset left-hander was in a murderous mood after completing his hundred, smashing medium-pacer Anwar Hossain Monir all over the park. He was eventually out in the final overs of the day, lofting Aftab Ahmed straight down the throat of Mohammad Ashraful at long-off.

Graham Thorpe arrived at the wicket amidst applause from the nine-thousand strong crowd and the left-hander was batting on two in his 100th Test with Ian Bell 57 not out at the other end.

"We didn't expect anything easy from this opposition and these conditions and the result did not surprise me. We are going to prepare tomorrow for sure may be a bit earlier but will have to be ready for that," said Whatmore at a briefing after the first day's play.

"We are yet to suffer a two-day defeat and we have to work hard not to concede a two-day defeat," added a grim-faced Whatmore.

"This game is terribly one-side and we just have to dig deep and play for pride and you can achieve that by showing a lot of effort with the bat.

"We can delay things much longer if others can apply like what Javed showed," said the Bangladesh coach.