And no sooner had England captain Michael Vaughan, who only the other day announced that he wanted to finish the game inside two days, won the toss and gleefully decided to bowl Bangladesh very well knew that they were heading for another disaster.

For someone who watched the horror show on the first morning at Lord's it was an action replay at Chester-le-Street. They were 66-5 at lunch and were bowled out for 104 in 39.5 overs. At Lord's Bangladesh scored 85-5 at lunch and were shot out for 108 in 38.2 overs.

Batsmen came out of the dressing room with their heads down, twisted and turned before their misery ended with regulation catching practice behind the wicket. This time the four-pronged pace attack of England was led by Durham's homeboy Steve Harmison. Vaughan wanted to test the techniques while his opposite number Habibul Bashar promised a disciplined approach.

But unfortunately Bashar's men were exposed again against quality bowling in seaming English conditions.

Coach Dav Whatmore said ahead of the second Test that he had worked on the techniques with a couple of his top-order batsmen and it looked like as if his words had done good for opener Nafees Iqbal, who was moving back and forth nicely and leaving the odd delivery.

But then the Chittagong batsman chased a wide delivery and the never-ending processing started.

Bashar told this reporter before the match that he would be more disciplined in his approach but did exactly the opposite -- pulled the very second ball he faced and slashed outside the off-stump to get off the mark with a four off Harmison.

The tall English fast bowler needed just one more delivery to knock off Bashar's wickets.

Mohammad Ashraful came and went quickly but not before playing a senseless pull shot that almost brought upon his doom in the very second delivery he faced. He was out nicking one behind the wicket. Rajin Saleh scored a struggling two and Aftab Ahmed stayed 51 minutes at the crease, which was quite inspiring for someone who loves to play shots. But he thought it was enough for the day and flashed outside the off-stump shortly after lunch.

After seeing most of the batsmen getting out in the same fashion chief selector Faruque Ahmed made an interesting remark.

"There might be two very good reasons why they are playing shots. Firstly, they are compulsive strokemakers. Secondly, they were not feeling comfortable in the middle and are playing shots just to drive away the fear."

But then there are a few cricketers who are not considered as spectacular as others. Javed Omar might be not that popular for his peculiar defensive approach and his limited strokeplay. But Bangladesh perhaps at the moment needs more of this sort of cricketer, who knows his limitations and plays accordingly.