England won the first Test on Saturday by seven wickets on the fifth and final day after a half century by Michael Vaughan condemned Bangladesh to a 24th defeat in 25 matches.

The tourists reached their target of 164 with the loss of three wickets in 39 overs with Vaughan unbeaten on 81, his highest Test score as captain, and Graham Thorpe 18 not out.

Earlier in the day Bangladesh had seen their slender victory hopes vanish when they lost their last four wickets for 10 runs, having resumed their second innings on 245 for six.

England made short work of their victory target, although first-innings centurion Marcus Trescothick was out for 27 when he was stumped by wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud off a spinning Mohammad Rafique delivery.

Rafique also dismissed Mark Butcher (eight) lbw with a ball that kept low. Seamer Mashrafe Mortaza trapped Nasser Hussain lbw for 17.

England pacemen Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard set up the victory chase after rattling through the middle and late-order as Bangladesh collapsed in the morning session.

Skipper Khaled Mahmud was the first man to fall, trapped lbw by Harmison for 18.

Rafique (one) then edged a low catch to wicketkeeper Chris Read off Harmison before Hoggard enticed Mortaza (one) to nick an outswinger to Trescothick at first slip.

Hoggard wrapped up the innings by trapping Enamul Haque Jr lbw for a duck. Mushfiqur Rahman, who was unbeaten on 43 overnight, ended 46 not out.

Harmison finished with four for 44 to take his match haul to nine wickets and was later named man of the match. Hoggard took four for 48, giving him a match tally of seven wickets.

England all-rounder Rikki Clarke could face a ban after he was charged on Saturday with verbally abusing Rahman on Friday.

Debutant Clarke must appear before match referee Wasim Raja later on Saturday.

Scoreboard:

Bangladesh first innings: 203 (Khaled Mashud 51, S.Harmison 5-35)

England first innings: 295 (M.Trescothick 113, G.Thorpe 64)

Bangladesh second innings: (overnight 245-6)
Hannan Sarkar c Trescothick b Hoggard 59
Rajin Saleh c Read b Harmison 8
Habibul Bashar c Trescothick b Batty 58
Alok Kapali c Butcher b Harmison 12
Mushfiqur Rahman not out 46
Khaled Mashud c Hussain b Giles 7
Javed Omar lbw b Hoggard 27
Khaled Mahmud lbw b Harmison 18
Mohammad Rafique c Read b Harmison 1
Mashrafe Mortaza c Trescothick b Hoggard 1
Enamul Haque Jr lbw b Hoggard 0

Extras: (lb-10 nb-3 pen-5) 18

Total: (all out, 107 overs) 255

Fall of wickets: 1-12 2-120 3-140 4-148 5-176 6-219 7-248 8-254 9-255

Bowling: Hoggard 27-11-48-4, Harmison 25-8-44-4, Batty 20-2-65-1, Giles 20-4-52-1, Clarke 15-6-31-0.

England second innings:
M.Trescothick st Khaled Mashud b Mohammad Rafique 27
M.Vaughan not out 81
M.Butcher lbw b Mohammad Rafique 8
N.Hussain lbw b Mashrafe Mortaza 17
G.Thorpe not out 18

Extras: (lb-6 b-1 w-1 nb-5) 13

Total: (for three wickets, 39.2 overs) 164

Fall of wickets: 1-64 2-86 3-128

Did not bat: R.Clarke, C.Read, G.Batty, A.Giles, S.Harmison, M.Hoggard.

Bowling: Mashrafe Mortaza 11-2-46-1, Mushfiqur Rahman 3-1-11-1, Khaled Mahmud 3-1-14-0, Mohammad Rafique 13.2-0-57-2, Enamul Haque Jr 7-0-27-0, Rajin Saleh 2-0-2-0

Result: England won by seven wickets.