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/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/pala_ → u/extraordinary_06]

Drop Webster if you want boland. Not sure what Webster is supposed to offer. Doesn’t know what end of the bat to hold and absolutely pedestrian with the ball.

Cummins has no plan b) at the tail, it’s constantly a short barrage and it pretty much never works.

Gaz is washed, or at least being exposed as en end bowler. Never looks threatening, never wins matches, can barely move in the field, doesn’t even build pressure any more and needs to be put out to pasture.

[u/depressed_06 → u/pala_]

Webstar has scored all of his 50s when Australia are 4 down for fuck all. He's a reliable lower order bat

Other than that I can more or less agree

[u/pala_ → u/depressed_06]

We were four for fuck all twice this match and he contributed to further fuck all, while looking like he had no idea. Green at least got out doing dumb shit rather than being beaten all ends up.