Cricket at its Home: Top 5 Test-match victories at Lord's, London

#2 1st Test, Bangladesh's 2005 tour of England: May 28. England win by innings and 261 runs

English jubilation after the game

The Asian nations have almost always found Lord's a tough nut to crack, as was eventually discovered by Bangladesh in their first tour to England in 2005. The first game was at Lord's and the visitors were subjected to the added pressure of batting first in front of a boisterous home crowd of Day 1. And soon enough, they folded, for a paltry sum of 108 runs. No one apart from Javed Omar and Aftab Ahmed scored beyond 20, as the pace trio of Hoggard-Harmison-Flintoff wreaked havoc without mercy. The former picked four wickets and emerged the best bowler, while the remaining two picked two each.

When England's turn came to bat, they literally toyed with the Banglas' meek attack, Trescothick and Vaughan scoring hundreds. The former was dismissed six runs short of a 200, but that changed nothing, as Strauss, Ian Bell, and Graham Thorpe provided Vaughan good support with scores of 69, 65 and 42 not out, respectively. Eventually, they declared at 528 for 3, leaving the Tigers a huge deficit to chase, and at best avoid an innings defeat. They failed to do so, getting all-out for 159, a tad better than their first innings score. Hoggard and Harmison picked two wickets, while Flintoff led the pack this time with three on his own.

England thus completed a win by an innings and 261 runs, just 24 runs short of the Lord's record - the 1974 win against India.