County Championship round-up: Bangladesh fall apart in face of fiery Kirby

The idea that Bangladesh might provide England with worthwhile opposition in the first Test series of the summer gained no credibility against England Lions on day one yesterday of a scheduled four at Derby, where the tourists, asked to bat first on a green-tinged pitch, collapsed from 124 for 2 at lunch to 220 all out.

Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes batted fluently at the start but Gloucestershire's Steve Kirby ripped out the middle order with three wickets in the space of 18 balls and the Bangladeshis never recovered.

Ravi Bopara took 3 for 9 from 20 balls with his nippy medium pace. Monty Panesar was not required to bowl. Bopara fared less well with the bat, ironically, dismissed for 12 as Robiul Islam had him and Moeen Ali caught at second slip off successive balls. The Yorkshire captain, Andrew Gale, is 63 not out overnight.

Andrew Strauss arrested a run of low scores for Middlesex against Surrey at The Oval but was out eight short of a century. Scott Newman, with whom Strauss shared a 163-run opening partnership, also missed out on a hundred, caught behind for 91. Middlesex collapsed from 220 for 2 to 324 all out – 166 behind – as Jade Dernbach finished with 5 for 68 but Surrey did not enforce the follow-on.