Bangladesh have made history with an emphatic Test victory inside three days over England in Mirpur to square the two-match series at one-all.Teenage spin sensation Mehedi Hasan was the hero, taking 6-77 in the second innings to finish with 12 for the match as the Tigers recorded their eighth Test win and their first-ever against a nation other than Zimbabwe or West Indies.
England were well-placed at 100-0 at tea in pursuit of the 273 runs needed to win the series 2-0 with Ben Duckett (56) and Alastair Cook (59) playing positively but collapsed to 127-5 and then 164 all out, Mehedi (6-77) becoming only the sixth player in history to take three five-wicket hauls in his first three Tests.
The tourists' challenge always looked tough given no England side had ever chased more than 209 to win a Test in Asia but the scale of their implosion was staggering, Shakib Al Hasan (4-49) taking three of the final four wickets to fall in one over.
The momentous final wicket, earning Bangladesh only the eighth win in their 95-Test history, fell fittingly to Mehedi when he trapped Steven Finn lbw to spark jubilant scenes amid the home players.
After five victories against Zimbabwe and two against an under-strength West Indies, this success was by far the most significant in Bangladesh's Test development and ensured the two-Test series ended all-square.
Mushfiqur Rahman's side began the day on 152-3 in their second innings with a healthy cushion of 128 runs.
Four drops didn't help the tourists' cause - Imrul Kayes (78) enjoying lives on 67 and 74 as first Cook at leg slip and then Root at slip failed to cling onto tough one-handed chances off Zafar Ansari and Moeen Ali respectively, before he was trapped lbw on the sweep by Ali for 78.
Shakib would have been out for six had Cook reviewed a not out lbw decision off Ali and then was missed badly in the deep on 23 as Duckett shelled a dolly off Ansari's bowling.
England didn't learn their lesson - Mushfiqur also benefitting from a missed lbw opportunity early in his innings before Steven Finn couldn't quite leap high enough to grab a chance at mid-off - Ansari the unlucky bowler again.
The tourists finally got their reward when Shakib (41) chopped Adil Rashid's fifth ball of the day onto his stumps and on the same score Mushfiqur nicked Ben Stokes to Cook at first slip to make it 238-6.
Sabbir Rahman (15) and Shuvagata Hom (25no) battled gamely before Stokes removed the former lbw just before lunch, the Durham all-rounder then forcing Taijul Islam to nick off making it 273-8.
Rashid polished off the tail as Mehedi Hasan edged to Root attempting to go over the top and Kamrul Islam Rabbi skied a return catch attempting to hit his second six.
England's victory chase began positively, Duckett signalling his intent by reverse sweeping Shakib for consecutive boundaries and playing with intent even after being dropped on 12 by Mumudullah as he cut fiercely at Mehedi.
The Northamptonshire batsman, who compiled 36 runs in his first three Test knocks, moved swiftly into the forties by launching Shakib over long on for six and his half-century soon followed, courtesy of a fine-dabbed sweep for four.
The 100-stand came up off the very next delivery as Duckett pulled Mehedi for four, there being little indication of the mayhem to come as England took tea on 100-0.
The collapse began immediately upon the resumption as Mehedi bowled Duckett beneath his bat with his first delivery, the ball keeping a little low.
Root, able to bat after a stomach complaint, made just one before falling lbw to Shakib on the front foot and 108-2 nearly became 110-3 only for Cook to successfully overturn an incredibly tight lbw decision.
Gary Ballance, so desperately in need of a score ahead of the India series, took his series tally to 24 in four innings before meekly miscuing a rank Mehedi delivery to Tamim Iqbal at mid-off.
Ali lasted just four balls, Mehedi's lbw appeal upheld despite a review, and when Cook prodded the spinner to Mominul at silly point the game looked close to up.
Hopes of England's middle-to-lower order saving face vanished when Jonny Bairstow ballooned a catch to leg-slip and while Stokes received a life on 13 when Shakib shelled a return catch and was saved from a tight lbw call when the ball brushed his glove on the sweep, there was to be no great escape.
Stokes played with intent, pumping Mehedi down the ground for six, only to be bowled off-stump by Shakib who then picked up Rashid and Ansari in three balls, the latter courtesy of sharp reactions from short leg Mominul who parried a catch to Imrul to leave England on the brink.
As the wickets fell quickly - Gary Ballance (5) and Moeen Ali (0) fell in the same Mehedi over - Cook loomed as the saviour for England, but when the skipper departed for 59, the challenge of getting England home fell to first Test heroes Stokes and Bairstow.
Neither could deliver this time around however, and the final five wickets fell for just 25 runs as Shakib and Mehedi ran riot, taking their country to the crowning moment of their 16-year Test history.
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