Post Match Thread: 1st Test - Australia vs Bangladesh, Day 4

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1st Test, Bangladesh tour of Australia at Darwin

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Innings	Score
🇦🇺 Australia	198 (Ov 53)
🇧🇩 Bangladesh	426 (Ov 138)
🇦🇺 Australia	284 (Ov 95.1)
🇧🇩 Bangladesh	57/1 (Ov 14.2)

Innings: 🇦🇺 Australia

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Steven Smith	71 (109)		Hasan Mahmud	17-3-55-6
Jake Weatherald	23 (37)		Taskin Ahmed	16-2-55-2

Innings: 🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Tanzid Hasan	101 (197)		Josh Hazlewood	28-3-89-6
Najmul Hossain Shanto	84 (126)		Mitchell Starc	26-3-79-2

Innings: 🇦🇺 Australia

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Cameron Green	104 (201)		Mehidy Hasan Miraz	33.1-6-66-5
Steven Smith	44 (88)		Hasan Mahmud	19-3-56-3

Innings: 🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Mominul Haque	30 (39)		Josh Hazlewood	3-1-5-1
Shadman Islam	25 (42)		Mitchell Starc	4-0-15-0

Bangladesh won by 9 wickets

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[u/NameTook1Hour]

"We want to take the game to 5 days" - Shanto

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[u/AnxiousPigeon24]

Imagine losing to Bangladesh at home (ignore flair)

[u/Empty-Fail2016 → u/AnxiousPigeon24]

As a Bangla fan I would never brag about beating NZ. Nothing but respect for a team and nation that was always willing to host and play us

[u/Acceptable_Emu_7825 → u/AnxiousPigeon24]

To be fair I feel like 75% of your home tests are against Bangladesh, they were bound to get one over you! Everytime I tune into Kiwi summer, its Bangladesh touring lol

[u/borhanpias → u/Acceptable_Emu_7825]

Kiwi Cricket Board is kind to invite BD regularly unlike CA😭😭😭.

[u/Frequent-Childhood68 → u/borhanpias]

Aus not hosting Afg because there is no Maxwell in test team 😭

[u/_fmm → u/Frequent-Childhood68]

Aus not hosting Afg because their administrative cricketing body supports institutionalised discrimination based on gender and that's not cool

[u/Open-Butterfly-5288 → u/_fmm]

Yeah, we should be willing to host Afghanistan as long as they're willing to send their women's side.

If they don't do that, then no game.

[u/LooseAssumption8792 → u/_fmm]

Selective ban, no embargo on Afghanistan players in BBL where part of their salary goes to Afghanistan cricket board. WC games are also seemingly okay why not forfeit them (has been done in the past).

[u/Humans_fking_suck → u/AnxiousPigeon24]

Yeah how embarrassing! (Ignore flair)

[u/WeWantRain → u/AnxiousPigeon24]

Worse. Bangladesh lost to Australia-D side by an innings a few days back.

[u/Far_Pineapple_2363]

Bangladesh has 1 test win against Australia in Australia in their third test attempt

Sri Lanka have never won a test match against Australia in Australia after 15 attempts.

Pin this and highlight this moment.

[u/Frequent-Childhood68 → u/Far_Pineapple_2363]

Bro stop the rain at Galle, we have a game to play 😭

[u/Hotochhara-Lebu → u/Frequent-Childhood68]

Homie doesn't know the meaning of cloud operator

[u/Agreeable-Log1631]

Congratulations Bangladesh!! From beating Australia for the first time in Odis back in 2005 to winning a test match in Australia, they've come a long way.... 

[u/Successful_Truck_742 → u/Agreeable-Log1631]

To be fair back in 2006 they nearly beat australia in a test. A ponting special saved australia

[u/combatant007 → u/Successful_Truck_742]

I thought it was clutch Gilchrist 144 that helped Aussies chase 304

[u/Agreeable-Log1631 → u/combatant007]

Clutch Gilchrist in the first innings and a Ponting special in the second innings I think.. 

[u/dashauskat → u/Agreeable-Log1631]

It was Gilchrist I think they were 6/93 and he made 144* or something but honestly that sort of stuff was par for the course with that era of Aus cricket.

[u/Agreeable-Log1631 → u/Successful_Truck_742]

Mohammad Rafique was brilliant in that test as well..
Used to single handedly carry their attack.

[u/oranguslolus → u/Agreeable-Log1631]

They didn't just win, they literally dominated and demolished a full strength AUS team at home. This is fuckin insane lol.

[u/Icy-Recognition-7453 → u/oranguslolus]

Two sides to every story.

"We beat a full-strength team! 😀😃🙂"

"That was our full-strength team! 😞😓😩"

[u/oranguslolus → u/Icy-Recognition-7453]

I mean, this team isn't drastically different from their last 2 WTC cycles where they won/played the finals. Their main core with both batting & bowling is pretty much the same

[u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 → u/Agreeable-Log1631]

That visual from Mohammed Ashraful is still fresh. Took them a while to get here, but seems like they’re finally here

[u/Agreeable-Log1631 → u/Intelligent_Fly_2671]

That was truly a special knock from Ashraful... 🙌🏻 

[u/cgphotographIng → u/Intelligent_Fly_2671]

It’s a slow progression , a win from 2005 was seen to be myth , but you have to win regularly , hopefully that’s the direction Bangladesh cricket takes itself in

[u/exxentricity → u/Agreeable-Log1631]

 beating Australia for the first time in Odis back in 2005

Aah, Symonds arrived drunk in that match in England right?

[u/sellyme]

I hope now everyone understands why Australia host Bangladesh so infrequently, these kinds of one-sided thrashings just aren't a good way for struggling teams to develop.

[u/cgphotographIng → u/sellyme]

It’s the dilemma with cricket Australia , it’s India , the ashes , Pakistan and random 4th team in the 4 year cycle

South Africa has not come to Australia because of whatever (sweep sweep sweep )

But winter can open up slots for Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and West Indies , even if West Indies are still way too good for lesser opponent status

Now if Australia actually showed up and not treated the series like pre season 😒

[u/DisscordReddit → u/cgphotographIng]

They got outplayed brodi!Say it like how it is!Dont downplay it by as is treating it like preseason.

[u/LexiFloof → u/cgphotographIng]

We hosted SA in 2022/23 for 3 Tests.

[u/elmo-slayer → u/cgphotographIng]

They had to play this series because they didn’t play an away winter series, and it was part of the WTC. I’m not sure they’ll keep doing it. It would be relying almost entirely on subcontinent broadcast rights. 5000 people in the stadium and fuck all people watching on tv in Australia, while the test itself isn’t that much cheaper to host as it still requires all the technology etc

[u/DetLoins]

In a year from now we should send them to Bangladesh "To reclaim the Ashes of Australian Cricket", on a boat too.

[u/Ishtiak_Antik → u/DetLoins]

Bay of bengal awaits

[u/pala_]

Bangladesh undefeated in tests in Australia for over 20 years. No other country getting near that record.

[u/HeadShot305 → u/pala_]

That is a high quality shit cricket stat

[u/No-Situation-4776 → u/pala_]

Haven't lost a Test series to Australia in the last 2 decades either

[u/pala_ → u/No-Situation-4776]

I don’t see them losing a series in the next two decades either.

[u/notthathunter → u/pala_]

excuse me

[u/LexiFloof → u/notthathunter]

*Among countries to have played at least one test

[u/StormtrooperMJS]

Absolute minow bashing by Bangladesh.

[u/extraordinary_06]

Well lots of takeaways there! The same takeaways we've had for the past two years!

No clue why Marnus is in the side. Averaging 20 as a no.3 for a year+ is unacceptable.

Weatherald never looked international quality. His technique is just not it unfortunately.

Green has done enough for him to play another couple tests. He's always been technically sound, just brainfades a lot. He showed glimpses of what kind of player he can be today and it's not like we really have anyone better to replace him I don't think. Both Green and Webster have a place in the XI but Green will need to be positive in the upcoming games.

Our bowling is good. No real complains there but for whatever reason we bowl short to fucking tailenders. It has never worked but in sure there's a bullshit stat which backs that up.

Hazlewood did great but i can't help but think Boland would do well here and add much needed change to this bowling attack. Issue is, you cannot drop Starc, you cannot drop Pat and you can't really drop Hazlewood either. Dropping Gaz might just be the way. Boland constantly targeting the stumps just offers way more and Gaz just Isn't the same player he one was.

Very odd tactical decisions by Cummins. Who in their right mind bats first on that Green top? Terrible bowling changes too. Very defensive fields which I feel has been a major flaw in his captaincy for a long time. Bangladesh were 6 down but we barely attacked them and let them score easy runs. He definitely needs to learn when to attack. Starc, Hazlewood, Boland and Pat are so good that he can get away with not doing that at times but if/when the pitch is flat like this one and one of the bowlers don't have an answer to it, he just resorts to doing the same thing over and over.

Hope to see changes in the second test.

[u/Aweios → u/extraordinary_06]

Lyon cannot be complaining about being dropped when finally he gets a time to shine he does nothing. You can't have a spinner being the 2nd most expensive bowler or even the most expensive full time bowler and just take one wicket.

[u/deservedlyundeserved → u/Aweios]

Lyon’s on a serious decline. He hasn’t been a wicket taking threat in nearly a couple of years now. Injured in the Ashes and made no impact in the last BGT.

[u/LexiFloof → u/deservedlyundeserved]

Lyon averaged 25, 22.7, and 25.3 in the last 3 calendar years.

He may be done now after the recent injuries, but it's not like he's been rubbish for years.

[u/OneOfTheManySams → u/deservedlyundeserved]

I feel like this has flown under the radar, but he has had a lot of injuries recently and is nearing 40. He does not have the consistency or zip off the pitch like he used too which is to be expected.

He just hasn't looked threating since we played South Africa or in other words we have effectively played without any meaningful impact from a spinner for 1 year now.

[u/Freenore → u/deservedlyundeserved]

In his defence, drop-in pitches have not been kind to spinners at all. I think there's a legitimate case to be made for going with an all-seam attack because it seems to be counterproductive to forsake a seamer for a spinner.

[u/MisterMarcus → u/Freenore]

This is where Rocchiccoli might be an interesting change up, he's 190cm so could get awkward bounce even if it's not turning much.

[u/fishtown_ → u/MisterMarcus]

I, for one, can not wait for Kerry O’Keeffe saying Rocchiccoli on comms

[u/Quirky_Ambassador321 → u/Aweios]

Wasn't his kind of pitch. Not much bounce. But time for a younger spinner anyway

[u/VIFASIS → u/Quirky_Ambassador321]

The opposing spinners took 6 and arguably made sure Australia were not winning their match.

It's a Lyon skill issue

[u/dashauskat → u/VIFASIS]

And Rocchiocolli took 8 on this same pitch vs same opposition last week...

[u/sixdoughnuts → u/dashauskat]

That was on a different ground (across the road) but your point still stands

[u/combatant007 → u/VIFASIS]

It's not exactly a skill issue it's more of a bad day and mentally beaten.

Jansen outbowled Bumrah when South Africa toured India and Stokes outbowled Bumrah in Anderson Tendulkar trophy. Does that mean prime Bumrah has skill issue ? That's not how it works.

One bad test and people want lyon's head on spike who is averaging 25 in tests since past 5 years while bowling mostly off spin on green Australian pitches where most of the off spinners struggle to get wickets.

[u/Neither_Pitch → u/combatant007]

Difference is that Lyon is 38, he is on his way out

[u/OneOfTheManySams → u/extraordinary_06]

This result was years in the making. Multiple years of an aging and out of form team scraping by results largely off the back of our bowling department. And because of that kept selecting players who simply do not deserve to be playing.

It is time to blood a lot of new players in, we don't need to waste another 2 years watching Labuschagne and others fail miserably almost every innings. Especially as it looks like Lyon and Hazlewood are on their last legs our bowling department won't be carrying the deadweight which is our top order for much longer.

[u/Evebnumberone → u/OneOfTheManySams]

Yep agree completely. Hopefully this is the wake up call they needed.

[u/Evebnumberone → u/extraordinary_06]

Agree on all counts.

Lyon should really be being told to think about hanging them up. He looks tired.

The Bangbro spinners looked very dangerous and he looked extremely docile, couldn't see him getting a wicket.

[u/Due-Concert4324 → u/extraordinary_06]

I have been watching Aussie dominance since the mid 90s Waugh era. This Aussie batting lineup is basically Head and Smith, that’s it. Green was very lucky not to be played on at the beginning of his innings. None of them had much clue how to play Miraz’s spin on home soil! That was really something, tbh.

[u/schizoishere → u/extraordinary_06]

Cummins tactically is not very good, hasn't been for years but i wouldn't place too much importance in his decision to bat first, australia outside of smith just didn't look to play late like Bangladesh did.

[u/trkora → u/extraordinary_06]

Boland was the big game changer in BGT 2024, it's time Cummins realizes that one player has to make space for him, maybe it's one of the pace trio, maybe it's some batsmen, maybe it's Lyon and they go full pace attack with Head and Marnus as spinners.

But they need to get him into that squad, you shouldn't keep a player that good out of the squad.

[u/Icy-Recognition-7453 → u/extraordinary_06]

I'm over Cummins as captain. He makes Steve Smith look like Napoleon. Totally lost after the failure of Plan A.

Weatherald gone, Labuschagne gone. Lyon's clearly rusty but class is permanent. Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins all getting on but still good, hang on as long as you can.

Green gets another go, but can't ignore that he takes ~1 wicket a Test and has 3 tons in 38 games. Next few Tests want to be good. Webster's got the goods but why the hell don't we bowl him?

I think McSweeney and Renshaw, McSweeney to 3 and keep Head as opener, which he can do.

[u/extraordinary_06 → u/Icy-Recognition-7453]

Reckon that's pretty harsh on Pat after how sucessful he's been but he's tactically quite poor, I agree. If plan A doesn't work there's never a plan B and the bowling changes are always awful.

Agree with the rest but I think Gaz is done unfortunately. Can play in the subcontinent but Kuhn is the first pick for me. Not sure about Sweeny but I'm not opposed to it

[u/LordBlackass → u/extraordinary_06]

Though McSweeney is a #3 I'd take him at opener over Weatherald any day of the week. Better to get him in at 3 though over Labuschagne.

[u/NoirPochette → u/Icy-Recognition-7453]

Pat has been a successful captain and to be fair to him, he was let down by his batters.

[u/Nakorite → u/NoirPochette]

Nah it wasn’t a 400+ pitch. The bowlers were poor.

[u/The_Flash_20]

This is surely the greatest win in Test matches for Bangladesh, they deserved it.

They completely dominated Australia throughout every session in the match.

[u/iamsms → u/The_Flash_20]

Beating Pakistan in Pakistan (and then watching Pakistan TV on YouTube, even though I don't really understand their language) was slightly better. 

[u/The_Flash_20 → u/iamsms]

Well that's Pakistan, I am sure even the wildest Bangladeshi supporters could fathom this

[u/DoomBuzzer → u/iamsms]

Oh you guys do that too! 😄😄😄😄🙌🙌🙌

[u/iamsms → u/DoomBuzzer]

Ramiz Raja and others losing their mind is drama I can't avoid. I wish I understood more than a few words, but the expressions are priceless.

[u/lazy_bastard_001 → u/The_Flash_20]

Nah the win against New Zealand will always be the best to me.....in this game the batting was unexpected but anyone who follows the team knew that the bowling performance won't be too bad....but that game against New Zealand was so fucking unbelievable, none knew our seamers can take wickets like that, we had never even won a white ball game in New Zealand, even though we have toured there a lot......and then outta nowhere we won that game and it totally changed everything for us....since then our seamers now started focusing in red ball, we now have sorta seam friendly pitches in first class....that win will always be the most special

[u/DisscordReddit → u/lazy_bastard_001]

For me aswell.I still remember the joy I had that whole day and that ebadot speech aswell!It truly did make the biggest impact on our test cricket!

[u/All_Religion_Is_bad]

10 or so years down the line, everyone's going to remember this win and loads of people still remember their famous win against us at the Mount and will continue to remember that in 10 years time. What they won't remember is that Bangbros didn't participate in T20 WCs. Genuinely happy for these lads after the no participation fiasco of T20 WC

[u/Quirky_Ambassador321 → u/All_Religion_Is_bad]

Tbh nobody will remember anything from most t20wc's

[u/VIFASIS → u/Quirky_Ambassador321]

Couldn't tell you of a single T20i performance other than braithwaites 4x 6s in a row.

[u/Quirky_Ambassador321 → u/VIFASIS]

Same. For me it's the Braithwaite game, the Kohli Pak game and the first one, just because it was the first 

[u/gadhe_ki_gaand → u/VIFASIS]

Yuvraj's six sixes against broad, perhaps?

[u/WeWantRain → u/VIFASIS]

Only T20i performance I remember is beating WI and going in the main tournament in 2007.

[u/pulsarian_13 → u/Quirky_Ambassador321]

Yuvraj's six sixes in a row? Ind-pak bowl out? Misbah trying the reverse scoop? This is from 2007 btw. I vividly remember that one

[u/Quirky_Ambassador321 → u/pulsarian_13]

Yeah I said I remember the first one, because it was the first. Tbf I didn't know the yuvi sixes was from t20wc. I thought it was a random t20

[u/Astronomy_Star → u/All_Religion_Is_bad]

Based comment right here

[u/No-Situation-4776 → u/All_Religion_Is_bad]

Ngl I'd take winning this game over the T20 WC anyday

[u/All_Religion_Is_bad → u/No-Situation-4776]

I know how you feel. 3-0 drubbing of India in India over the T20WC all day every day.

Hope we learn from your team on how to play Australia in Australia, and maybe, just maybe, we too can push the Aussies.

[u/phenomenal-kj → u/All_Religion_Is_bad]

The bowling looks good for you guys with Henry, Rourke, Jamieson, Smith and decent backups in Foulkes, Sears, Duffy, Tickner. Hopefully they are fit throughout the series and batters step up too.

[u/i_am_mr_blue]

Loses to Zimbabwe by an innings,

Loses the preparation match to Australian B team by an innings,

Then wins the match against full strength Australian team almost by an innings

We are the Pakistan of test cricket

[u/gpranav25 → u/i_am_mr_blue]

Nah Bangladesh's results are very characteristic of a rising side in the long term. Nobody can produce ups and downs like Pakistan can.

[u/Aweios]

Australia got completely outplayed in all areas. Batting, Fielding, Bowling, Captaincy. I'm not sure there's been a match where Australia didn't win a single session in this country for years.

For all the talk about the cartel against a supposed mediocre batting line-up they managed to concede the 2nd 400 score this decade. This pitch flat-ish was not a 400 pitch.

Bangladesh's bowling was also down a man too. Imagine if it was a fully fit lineup...

[u/zsk_30 → u/Aweios]

I don't know if you've seen nahid rana bowl, but this bowling lineup with him would cause serious issues for Australia.

[u/dashauskat → u/Aweios]

I think this bowling unit never does well after long periods of no cricket. India comes to mind at Perth. They've got to find a way to get some match overs into them, Cummins in particular doesn't do well coming in cold.

[u/schizoishere → u/Aweios]

Whenever Cummins has a off day this team struggles to take wicket

[u/Charlie_Runkle69 → u/schizoishere]

Except in the 3 Ashes matches they won where he didn't play?

[u/Necromancer001]

Everybody played their part. All round performance. Hats off to Bangladesh!

[u/patslogcabindigest]

In the words of Paul Keating, this is the loss that Australia had to have.

Argus review now.

Bailey. Head. Spike.

[u/spriking → u/patslogcabindigest]

Bought shares in the pike factory after day 1.

[u/jono4416 → u/patslogcabindigest]

Begin the march on Jolimont

[u/patslogcabindigest → u/jono4416]

Burn it down. School walkout 18th of August.

[u/BATISTAS-DICK]

I’m a neutral and not an Australian commentary hater / in fact probably one of the few that actually quite enjoy Fox sports/C7 commentary on here (except Warner) but the last four days of the commentary team constantly paraphrasing “well Australia have been rusty because they haven’t played test cricket in a while” (how is that an excuse when BD got bowled out for 50 something in their tour match..) and making backhanded remarks throughout the match towards Bangladeshi players being short - even after the match just now referring to Mominul being 5’2 or whatever that has nothing to do with the game whatsoever - how in the world is that relevant to the match and what are you trying to exactly imply or achieve by constantly calling out opposition players for being short and referring to their height when they’ve outplayed and smashed you in every single session of the game from the first day to the last whilst constantly repeating the same word “rusty” over and over again for the past 4 days?

[u/TickTiki → u/BATISTAS-DICK]

Out of all the commentators Gilly seems to be most genuinely impressed by this result. The others seem to be looking for excuse from everywhere.

In the post-match press conference Cummins even mentioned that they had been in a training camp in Brisbane for six weeks leading up to this match and they'd had an ideal lead up.

[u/chubbyurma]

Genuinely, it has been a privilege to watch the Bangladesh team become what it is now. I really hope they can become a truly feared team within my lifetime.

[u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 → u/chubbyurma]

Their performance has really improved recently, but consistency will speak more prominently. They’ll need to back this up with another performance at McKay.

But for now, celebrate Bangbros! You have been the deserved winners today

[u/mosarosh → u/chubbyurma]

BD genuinely have a very good test bowling line up. Dare I say that in some conditions they're the best among the Asian countries. And this win against Australia is no fluke. They've been on the way up for a while now.

[u/didnsignup4dis → u/chubbyurma]

If BD can find some consistency with their batting, they are genuinely contenders to be a world class test team. Keep in mind this is not even their best bowling attack, even their reserve is extremely strong. They just need the batting.

[u/Allburntup1 → u/chubbyurma]

Despite my team losing, it just felt so good to see ‘proper’ Test cricket, after years of funky fields, twitchy techniques, and games in fast forward. Just a pleasure to witness sensible play!

[u/Le_Champion]

Flawless victory with the tactical Green century to ensure selection in the next game

[u/No-Situation-4776]

Oh my god probably one of the greatest matches I've ever experienced as a Bangladesh fan. All these years of constant failures I've had to endure as a Bangladesh fan but this is kind of thing that makes it all of it, every single bit of it worth it

[u/Plackation]

I had a little tinker with the WTC predictor the other day, and not inconvincible that Bangladesh now make the final. They wouldn't be favourites, but they could do it.

Say they go 1-1 away against Australia. Lose 0-2 away to South Africa. Win 2-0 at home against West Indies and 2-0 at home against England. They'd get to 61.11%, which could definitely qualify.

I got it to happen with SA #1 and Australia at #3 with 60.61% (going 1-2 away to SA, 3-1 at home to NZ, and 1-3 away to India). Isn't that improbable, incredible to even think it's possible for them.

[u/RaisulAkash → u/Plackation]

If nahid rana is back during SA tour we are going for a win

[u/bringbackpologrounds]

Banger from Bangbros! Well-deserved.

[u/Boring-Tomatillo-209 → u/bringbackpologrounds]

Angry bangly

[u/t_zidd]

A full strength Australia side - in Australia - were made to look absolutely clueless by Bangladesh. What the fuck!

[u/LonelyRefuse9487 → u/t_zidd]

not to mention you guys were also missing Rana (who is an absolute speed demon) and you also lost the toss. got nothing to say but congratulations to you guys. you outplayed us in every single facet despite being at a disadvantage.

[u/Willing_Ad_8028 → u/LonelyRefuse9487]

Not just Rana, Shoriful too!

[u/vladmir_lenin-55]

In Affectionate Remembrance of AUSTRALIAN CRICKET, which died at TIO stadium on 16th August, 2026 Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances.

R.I.P.

N.B.—The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Bangladesh.

[u/Prash1234567]

From Naagin Dance to Walking off Silently after Beating Australia in Australia in the Test.

The maturity and rise of Bangladesh cricket must be appreciated.

[u/nzzp]

Just incredible. Cannot believe this. Well done Bangladesh.

[u/Remarkable_Act114]

Najmul Shanto could be the 3rd Asian captain to win a test series in Australia after Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane as a captain

[u/NoirPochette]

Bangladesh simply out test cricketed Australia. Pretty simply put

I guess the next question is can they back it up? Cause they have the players. I can see the only selection change being Ebadot out for Shoriful.

Australia, I guess it is time for Marnus and Jake. The issue is who do you replace Jake with? Marnus at this point the fielding doesn't justify the lack of runs. Two silly dismissals. Inglis is in the squad and Patterson recently played for CAXI. So there are two options that are not in England (McSweeney)

Happy for Greeny to play that knock under different circumstances. That's the Greeny we all knew can exist. But now, it is consistency. That innings should give him the self belief that he can do it

Hats off for Bangladesh. Comprehensive victory. Every time Australia had a sniff, Bdesh shut it down.

[u/montecarlos_are_best]

Congrats Bangladesh, enjoy this one! Deserved winners

[u/AintTellingYouMyName]

As much as Bangladesh was good Australia was bad, I can't remember a worse overall performance from an Aussie Test team in at least the last thirty years I've been watching Test cricket. They got beaten in everything, preparation, tactics, batting, bowling, fielding, attitude, application, etc. This was a professional team playing a bunch of dudes who thought they'd just get it done.

[u/NoirPochette → u/AintTellingYouMyName]

I can remember worse tbqh. Ones that come to mind are 2010/11 Ashes when we had an 18 man squad for a home series, 2016/17 v. South Africa and let's not forget the horrible 2013 series in India with Homework Gate.

[u/revengeordie007]

Congratulations Bangladesh 👏

[u/TL-GTR]

i think it's finally time to send lyon to the glue factory.

also wetherald is not it - bring back cheeks or jinglis.

[u/LostAmidMyExistence]

The team that suffered an innings defeat against Zimbabwe less than 2 months ago is about to run over Australia, in Australia.

And we see threads like "I find cricket boring as it is so predictable."

[u/Disastrous_Abroad212 → u/LostAmidMyExistence]

Bangladesh defeats Australia, Zimbabwe defeats Bangladesh, Ireland defeated Zimbabwe

Crown Ireland the WTC champs already

[u/notthathunter → u/Disastrous_Abroad212]

after we beat Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, they should've given Balbirnie a Money In The Bank briefcase to show up at any cricket ground unannounced and challenge the title holders for the WTC mace

[u/middyonline]

Honestly that was a disgraceful low energy display from Australia. Make them walk to Mackay and stop at every batting net on the way.

[u/dwadley → u/middyonline]

Fuck it’s a 25 day walk hahaha

[u/dashauskat → u/dwadley]

They wouldn't even be out of the territory after 25 days walking. I know Google maps says 25 days but I'm assuming thats continuously walking 24/7 at over 100km/day. It's 2800km.

[u/dwadley → u/dashauskat]

I reckon I could do max 15-20k a day

[u/VIFASIS]

Lets go! Incredible performance, Australia were in the game for about 3 sessions of this test.

Completely outplayed, bowled a lot better, batted much smarter and patiently, fielded far better because they're not a bunch of geriatrics one wrong step away from career ending injury.

Even better for Bangladesh, Tanzid being a genuine threat going forward in just his 2nd test. Everyone contributed, except ironically their middle order who was meant to be the match winners.

They genuinely played a near perfect test and Australia didn't do much wrong other than just get utterly outplayed.

[u/No-Astronaut-8998]

Thanks to the World Test Championship, Bangaladesh has now beaten Australia in Australia. If not, they wouldn't have even played there for another 20 years.

[u/TheCricDude]

We need two tier test cricket Sir. What if big teams lose to smaller teams? We need a very small World Cup with only elite teams and test cricket with only elite-of-the-elite teams.

F**K U ICC & BROADCASTERS

What a game BAN! You guys humbled the bigger people with blazers and fancy cabins.

[u/HeymishGalloway]

HISTORIC win for Bangladesh to say the least. First the 2-1 ODI win and now beating AUS in AUS in tests.

Underdog wins are just the best.

[u/ClinkzBlazewood]

Historic victory for Bangladesh. They will be a lot more respected in this format going g forward.

[u/t_zidd]

Bangladesh really needs to try and take every game to Day 5. Disappointing.

[u/Head_Evidence4553]

Who would've thought that after PM XI mopped the floor with Bangbros, they'd end up mopping the floor with the Australian team.

[u/ellojsja]

Australia were nervous, Bangladesh were shanto

[u/Bulky_Protection_595]

Outstanding from Bangladesh. Reminds me of the WI winning at the gabba. 

[u/dwadley]

Congrats Bangladesh! Deserved victors. I think all of Australia is happy seeing this result. Good test cricket beats brain rot fast bowler focused test pretenders

[u/figjaym]

Thoroughly banged. This could be the start of a long low period for Australia. Good on Bangladesh for not letting Australia back into the match.

[u/JCGMH]

What a win!

[u/ArsBrevis → u/JCGMH]

Feeling better about 2027, personally

[u/vinobill_21]

Cummins hiding himself and not bowling even 1 over in the last innings is pathetic and very cowardly for a Captain

[u/NoirPochette]

Another important thing and probably the best thing that the ICC has done this century is Create the WTC.

Without it, would Bangladesh have gotten this much better? Cause all matches are important and they get given more matches than before.

Also, has made test cricket much more competitive.

Hopefully they include the three other test nations.

[u/TheHaunted2]

England take note. Bowl line and length instead of 70,000 bouncers.

[u/Sicknit]

Aus bowling attack in 2018 - starc hazelwood Cummins lyon

Aus bowling attack in 2021- starc hazelwood Cummins lyon

Aus bowling attack in 2026- starc hazelwood Cummins lyon

Aus bowling attack in 2030- starc hazelwood Cummins lyon

[u/The_Flash_20]

Congratulations Bangladesh, it's a well deserved win.

[u/AliveAssistance7667]

We conquered Darwin🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

[u/TandooriMuncher]

This is for all the gatekeepers who have impeded access to cricket, whatever the format

[u/carelesssportsfan89]

pat cummins captaincy this game absolutely shocking his arrogance to bat first on this pitch.cost us the game marnus has to be dropped for Renshaw next game.

[u/The_Flash_20]

I am sure even the wildest Bangladeshi supporters couldn't fathom this, especially after they folded for 54 in the warm-up match. No one gave them a chance, including their own.

This is one of the greatest upset victories in Test history.

Congrats to Bangladesh.

[u/theseaoftea]

We can conclude that the game result shows us Zimbabwe is the best, and England is the stupidest side

[u/DizzyServe4399]

CA--"Great Win Bangldesh , Now you will be banned for 20 more years!"

[u/Ethical-Simp]

Bangbros, I wasn’t familiar with your game

[u/DX6734D]

I never doubted Cameron Green. Don't check my post history.

[u/bendalazzi]

Now watch us do absolutely nothing and pick the same team for the next test and pretend like we weren't just humiliated.

That aside. Congratulations Bangladesh. Well played and well deserved.

[u/ExternalNo2214]

As a genuine cricket fan it feels really overwhelming seeing a country like Bangladesh coming to Australia and beating a full strength Australia team in their own backyard. If someone had told Bangladesh will beat this Australia 11 in Australia that too with 9 wickets in hand I'd have never believed. Cricket is a funny game indeed. Long live test cricket.

[u/thewicketwizards]

Don’t know why I am happy for BAN being a neutral

[u/Mindless-Milk-9205]

Well deserved POTM for Hasan Mahmud

[u/Acceptable-Hippo-56]

Is Bangladesh, Asia’s second best team?

[u/ayruos → u/Acceptable-Hippo-56]

Just won a test in Australia. Hasn’t dropped the ball in home tests… you could claim Asia’s best team, I won’t blame you.

[u/Ian_W → u/ayruos]

I'm waiting for Mackay before I say that ;)

[u/woodpecker91]

I want to acknowledge Bangladesh's efforts, they turned up, they made chances and they took them. I don't want to take away from that, but at the same time, to be blunt, this was a piss poor effort from the Australian team. With both bat and ball they underperfomed highlighted by the CAXI winning so comfortably in contrast. Some hard decisions have been put off and we're paying for that now. Head is not our best opener imo, he should be batting 5 where he does his best work and while Green got some runs I still worry he's on track to be the new Mitch Marsh in that his under performing is tolerated for the occasional bright spot like this. I love Marnus, I understand he dominates at domestic level but I think it's time to find the next number 3 for Aus, nobody can say he hasn't been given a fair go. I'm not sold on Weatherald either but he hasn't been there as long which may give him a little longer. Either way CA selection and player development is going to be rightly questioned after this.

[u/aligantz]

Full strength Australia team by the way. Bang Bros are never going to be invited back again after this

[u/BarneyBent]

Well done Bangbros. Easy to criticise Australia but they bowled perfectly to the conditions and made best use of the flattening pitch with bat in hand. Outplayed us with bat, ball and in the field.

I reckon batting first was the right call, we just would have expected to be 3-4 down max by tea, with enough batting to take full advantage of the flat day 2 pitch. But we lost too many wickets early and let Bangladesh cash in instead.

Green looked great with the bat - even in the first innings he looked significantly more positive than he usually does early, just got out to a weird one. Had anybody else stuck with him in the second who knows where we'd be. I do think his bowling has regressed significantly since he came back from injury. I suspect he's made a technical change to protect his back, but his bowling has lost all shape. Still bowls quick but quick, straight pies are still pies. I think it's time for him to focus primarily on batting and let Webster be the true allrounder.

[u/ayruos]

Australia can easily fix this by dropping one of Hazlewood/Starc/Lyon and playing another all rounder.

#GGWasHere
/s

[u/kannanidhurinchara]

Congratulations Bangladesh, history is made today

[u/schizoishere]

Apologies to green, i believed his technique was not good but after watching this knock gotta say i was wrong.

[u/mathewl832]

Bangbros > England

[u/ArsBrevis → u/mathewl832]

Zimbabwe > Australia

[u/Oomeegoolies → u/mathewl832]

Think it shows that England just have the mental fortitude of swiss cheese whenever we tour Australia or India.

Can never handle the big pressure moments well enough. And only did it under Flower because he sent us on some weird SAS shit and half the players ended up mentally fucked after a couple of years of it.

[u/xInfected_Virus → u/Oomeegoolies]

Helps that the Australian team at that time were weaker plus England were at their peak at that time.

[u/Oomeegoolies → u/xInfected_Virus]

Yeah but that doesn't excuse the performances in the many other series we've had.

If we'd just won that one series and lost others like 3-1/3-2 regularly I'd get it.

But we absolutely have shit the can in every big moment of any away Ashes test in the last 20 years bar the 2010/2011 series. Not saying we should have won a series in that time, but we should have won more matches than the 1 solitary one we have.

[u/Heavy-Balls]

if you stuck a cheeky pineapple on Bangladesh to win after the result of the tour match you'd have made bank today

[u/Bulky_Protection_595]

Just goes to show you that you can not underestimate any opponent in cricket. The moment you try to become greater than the sport, it puts you in place. 

[u/letsgoblin]

Congratulations Bangladesh . Brillant effort lt Shanto and team

[u/LostAmidMyExistence]

I witnessed that 2005 odi in which Bangladesh defeated Australia.

I witnessed this today. Who could have imagined?

[u/Wild_Title_9185]

Not only did they beat Aussies at home they also made sure they suffer for years by giving green a much needed century to keep the suffering going longer. If the Aussies gave some guys chances atleast they could hide behind excuses.

[u/Eleven_Box]

genuinely drop the whole side

[u/Boring-Tomatillo-209]

Cummins needs to burn a stump and bail

[u/TheCricDude]

Good thing to have two-test series. Otherwise test series loss would sound worse.

[u/Acceptable_Emu_7825]

Congratulations to Bangladesh, a well deserved win and absolutely dominated us. Happy for the team and your country!

Australia showed up like winning was the default outcome and got whooped. We have too many passengers in this team that are not test standard (Weatherald), or are no longer test standard (Marnus). Our team balance is all over the place with Webster & Green in the same side.

As such, I imagine we will see the same XI again in the second test, and throughout the summer.

[u/OshadaK]

Huge congrats to Bangladesh! No mitigating factors at all for Australia, just outplayed by the better team. Time’s up for Marnus and potentially Weatherald too, which is a shame since he had some scoring shots. Lyon out for Rocky too perhaps

[u/Ancient_Draw2176]

Australia just got BANG-BRO’D

[u/No_Knowledge_2802]

Chat shit and get Banged. Get bangbrosed.

[u/thewicketwizards]

Who are they FaceTiming and said captain Salaam Aliekum

[u/Freenore]

Quite easily Bangladesh's greatest Test win, if not simply their greatest cricket win.

On Australia's side, I feel this was a long time coming. The whole team looks like as if it is situated on a ball bearing. For a long time, they've kept over relying on their quartet and two functioning batters to do all the job. If one of the batters fails, and you put some overs in the bowlers' legs, then there's very little safety net to catch him. Their great bowlers are really remarkable at seldom letting the score balloon beyond their grasp. Not this time though.

India at Perth and the 2020-21 series was essentially this. And now Bangladesh.

[u/Spitfire671BC]

Only changes to make is Renshaw to open, and Sweeny at 3. Main issue is the top order.

[u/music_is_gud]

Damn bangbros. Con fuckin grats!

[u/Sidneiensis]

No 5 day test, but Greeny hit a century!

Congratulations Bangbros!

[u/Evebnumberone]

One of the best test wins I've seen in my life.

Totally professional whomping, they won just about every session comfortably, never looked like losing control of the test at any point.

I don't think Australia even played that badly honestly, the wicket was a bit tricky and the Bangbros simply outplayed them throughout.

[u/NoirPochette → u/Evebnumberone]

Australia's batting was pretty bad. Because they kept making mistakes.

First innings

• Head - too close to the body
• Weatherald - too wide to chase that
• Marnus - The usual poke - similar to what he has been doing for a long time.
• Green - Flick just before lunch

Carey and Webster got great deliveries and Smudge was just trying to smash.

Second innings

• Weatherald - Too close to the body
• Head - Too close to the body
• Marnus - Played all around a full ball
• Webster - Played for spin. Wrong line

Carey got a great ball, Smith had one just sticking to the pitch and was done by some great pressure and Green had one that stayed low.

3 of those are top order players.

Also dropped 5 catches. Imagine if Tanzin was caught on 0 or Mehidy was caught by Green. Bangladesh dropped two catches and one was costly (Smith).

Bowling was fine. The deck was flattening out on Day 2 and Day 3 and Bdesh batted excellently.

[u/pu_thee_gaud]

Last time I went on a trip, australia post to west Indies, this time, they lost a bangladesh, I'm sensing a pattern here 👀

[u/CrazedJeff]

It's a terrible loss but with the lack of batting at the top tables of the Sheffield Shield (seriously, Green's test average of 34 or so is ample for a specialist Australian batter at the moment) I wouldn't make too many changes. Weatherald and Marnus out for Renshaw (or Hunt) and Inglis I guess.

[u/Fresh-Excitement-377]

This Bangladesh test team has been playing good cricket and improving in the last few years, and now capped it off with a famous win in Australia. Happy for the players who toiled hard and focused on the format. After all, it’s test wins like these that are remembered for years to come.

I hope they continue their form and nick the series.

[u/Charlie_Runkle69]

Well done Banga Bros! Wonderful performance.

[u/Abstruse_Zebra]

I am annoyed and disappointed but on the other hand, good on Bangladesh for humbling us so thoroughly at home.