The Bangladesh coach was gasping for words for the first few minutes when he appeared along with captain Khaled Mahmud to provide the post-mortem of Bangladesh's 7-wicket decapitation at the MA Aziz Stadium yesterday.

The gloomy-faced 49-year-old was the first to admit that his boys had not put enough runs on the board.

"We didn't get runs that's why we lost the match. We lost the way and I have not witnessed anything like that before. We were going along quite nicely but suddenly we were five wickets down in the space of two eventful overs and that shattered everything. It was just suicide really," said Whatmore reflecting on his team's batting failure. Bangladesh made 143 runs before being all out in 44.4 overs.

"It might be a number of things but what we have seen is not at all acceptable. But I think the boys are not bad players and they don't deserve to be bowled out for 80 or 90 runs," he said.

Despite suffering their 45th consecutive defeat, Whatmore still wanted to point to some positives from the one-sided affair.

"Some positives did come out of it like the team reached 143 runs after losing seven wickets for 66 only."

Whatmore however was quick to dismiss that the Chittagong wicket had anything to do with Bangladesh's batting failure.

"In terms of wicket perhaps Bangladesh batsmen were deceived by the bounce but it was not a fast track. I think this was a good wicket and if we could have got 220-230 runs on the board it might have been a different ball game," explained the Sri Lankan-born Australian.

Whatmore was however full of praise for England's talented all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who celebrated his return from injury claiming four wickets for 14 runs and then smashed an unbeaten 55 off 52 balls.

"Freddie came up in the second team and frustrated everybody. He is an exciting cricketer and has a couple of decent and favourable years ahead of him," said Whatmore about the Lancashire man-of-the-match.

While Whatmore dominated the post-match show captain Mahmud was down in the dumps especially after a section of the home crowd turned on him.

"Definitely this was not a nice reception. There is a need for some patience although the home crowd always carries high expectation. But I didn't mind because we didn't perform well," said the beleaguered Mahmud, who scored a duck in the match.

While Mahmud faced a volley of questions from the reporters it was Whatmore again who came to his captain's rescue.

"We are yet to know the exact answer. But we are trying to get to know why we are collapsing so regularly," Whatmore said.

England captain Michael Vaughan had nothing to complain about. It was a perfect start for his intention to achieve a 3-0 sweep.

"We are satisfied. It was very convincing that we won the match in 25 overs. We played the match in a positive manner," said the stylish right-hander despite his own bat did not do any talking on an easy-paced wicket.

"Freddie is a very good player, especially he is key member in the one-day game. It was a very satisfactory fifty for him after returning from injury," said Vaughan on Andrew Flintoff.

Vaughan was modest to offer some encouragement for his struggling opponents.

"They are in a learning process. Bangladesh has not played too much one-day cricket. Still, they have shown some positive evidence of improvement," he said.