Andrew Symonds produced a career-best performance to emphatically put his tour troubles behind him at Old Trafford.

Exactly a week after being left out of Australia's team for the embarrassing five-wicket defeat to Bangladesh in Cardiff, the wheel came full circle for all-rounder Symonds, who routed the same opposition with the ball in a 10-wicket win.

Last Saturday the Queenslander's international future was in serious jeopardy when he was dumped from the team moments before the toss at Sophia Gardens following late-night drinking on the eve of the contest.

The 30-year-old's punishment did not extend beyond the two-match suspension imposed by Cricket Australia, which allowed a return to NatWest Series action on Thursday, an opportunity he addressed with a match-shaping 73 against England at Chester-le-Street.

Symonds' versatility allowed him to exploit the spin-friendly surface in Manchester, finishing with five for 18, after bowling medium pace in the 57-run victory under the Durham floodlights.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting's decision to insert the opposition, persuaded by the cloud cover overhead, was seized upon by Brett Lee - another absentee last the Sophia Gardens humbling, through injury - who struck twice with the new ball.

But it took the introduction of Symonds for the 22nd over of the innings, with Bangladesh 101 for two, which provided the cutting edge.

Operating from the Stretford end, with wrist spinner Brad Hogg in tow at the other, Symonds began an extraordinary demise when he outfoxed the impressive Shahriar Nafees with a full delivery from around the wicket to terminate a third-wicket stand of 90.

Things looked up for Bangladesh - who now need hefty wins over both England and Australia to make next weekend's triangular tournament final at Lord's - when Mohammad Ashraful and Shahriar came together in the ninth over.

Ashraful, the centurion hero of last weekend, began in a manner the British public have become accustomed to in the past fortnight with two top-edged sixes and a venomous pulled boundary in Lee's sixth over, which cost 20.

Luck was with the diminutive Ashraful in between those maximums when he was held at mid-off from a no-ball and he was afforded another life in the next over, sent down by Glenn McGrath, when a wild slash flew high to slip but was not hauled in by Matthew Hayden.

Aside from a nip-and-tuck run-out decision, on 38, when television replays showed he had broken the crease simultaneously with Mike Hussey's direct hit from deep point, Ashraful needed no other fortune as the ball was nudged into gaps with care and skill.

His latest half-century contrasted to his whirlwind 94 off England at Trent Bridge on Tuesday, coming from 71 balls, in the midst of a Symonds-inspired collapse.

An horrific slump of eight wickets for 26 runs was was instigated when Shahriar, the most technically correct of the Bangladesh batsmen, played over the top of an arcing delivery.

Captain Habibul Bashar edged behind from the very next delivery and Aftab Ahmed was bowled through the gate aiming a stroke to the on-side to leave Ashraful with the tail.

A typical piece of athletic brilliance from Symonds accounted for Ashraful when a thick inside edge was clutched right-handed, low down in the bowler's follow-through.

Hogg prospered thanks to some poor decision-making from the Bangladeshis as Khaled Mashud was bowled round his legs attempting to sweep, Manjural Islam Rana was stumped when a rush of blood lured him down the track and Mashrafe Mortaza got in a muddle to edge to slip.

Fittingly, it was Symonds who finished the innings off when Mohammad Rafique missed a straight ball with an ungainly smite towards midwicket, to clock up a maiden five-wicket haul and the second-best figures in a one-day international in Manchester.

Encouraged by a surface patterned with cracks, Bangladesh also included two spinners, both left-armers, with Manjural preferred to pace bowler Tapash Baisya, alongside Rafique.

Such was the implosion of their team's batting, however, that they were forced to bowl without protection in the deep and openers Adam Gilchrist and Hayden took advantage to carve out only Australia's third-ever successful chase without blemish.

Hayden bullied teenage fast bowler Nazmul Hossain for four boundaries in the sixth over and with Habibul forced to introduce the slow bowlers early, the vacant areas outside the 30-yard fielding restrictions were exploited.

Gilchrist swung Rafique over the ropes straight down the ground and followed with two fours via the aerial route, the latter of which brought up a 46-ball half-century, while Hayden got to his own landmark at an even faster pace of 39 deliveries when he lofted the first of his two sixes, off Manjural.

The second, from the bowling of Rafique, got the Aussies to within inches of the line, and the emphatic result was delivered in the 19th over to blot out the painful memories of the Welsh capital.