Captain Cook will start his journey against Bangladesh

English team has been announced for the upcoming Bangladesh tour during February and March this year. Alastair Cook has been selected the test captain. Captain Cook will start his journey of captaincy against Bangladesh. Previous captain Andrew Strauss has been given rest.

English selector Geoff Miller said, 'Andrew Strauss has provide outstanding leadership for the team in both forms of the game over the part 12 months and selectors feel it is important that he takes a break ahead of an extremely busy program of international cricket leading ur to and including the Ashes series in Australia and the World Cup 2011.'

The English team will play a two match test series and a three match ODI series in their Bangladesh tour.

Squad
TEST: Alastair Cook (captain), Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Michal Carberry, Paul Collingwood, Steven Davies, Graham Onions, Matt Prior, Ajmal Shahzad, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Luke Wright.

ONEDAY: Alastair Cook (captain), Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Joe Denly, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior, Kevin Pietersen, Liam Plunkett, Ryan Sidebottom, Ajmal Shahzad, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Luke Wright.

England Took the lead 1-0

England won the second ODI against South Africa yesterday and took the lead of 1-0 in CENTURION, South Africa. Batting first South Africa scored 250 and England won by 7 wickets. The first ODI between England and South Africa was drawn due to rain and the second was played in quite sporting ground. English captain won the toss and elected to field first. And they were successful to keep the target in their favor.

South African lost two quick wickets in 38 runs. But the opener Hashim Amla (57) and JP Duminy (41) built a partnership of 73 and re-constructed the innings. Middle order batsman Alviro Petersen was the highest scored. He scored 64 runs from 65 runs. And Mark Boucher scored 30 runs not out. They finally managed 250 runs in scoreboard in 50 overs. English fast bowler James Anderson took 3 wickets for the loss of 60 runs.

England also lost two top order batsman for 45 runs. Opening batsman Jonathan Trott scored maiden 87 runs while Paul Collingwood batted the innings through. Paul Collingwood scored his 5th ODI century. That was a match winning innings of 105 runs not out. South African bowler Charl Langeveldt was most successful among the bowlers. He took 2 wickets for 46.

Scorecard:
South Africa: 250/9 (50 ovr) Alviro Petersen 64, Hashim Amla 57, JP Duminy 41, James Anderson 3/60, Paul Collingwood 2/24, Tim Bresnan2/46.
England: 252/3 (46.0 ovr) Paul Collingwood 105*, Jonathan Trott 87, Eoin Morgan 27*, Charl Langeveldt 2/46, Albie Morkel 1/26.