An irrepressible Mitchell Starc bagged four wickets and 10 for the match as he ripped through the Bangladesh batting to ensure a commanding innings and 51-run second Test victory for Australia inside two days on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The visitors headed into the Mackay showdown on a high after shocking the world’s top-ranked team by nine wickets in the first Test at Darwin.<\/p>\n
But they were brought crashing back to earth by some scintillating fast bowling, led by man-of-the-match Starc who finished with 10-51 for the match to level the two-game series.<\/p>\n
After 18 wickets fell on a frenetic first day, the hosts were all out for 210 in the morning session Sunday, securing a lead of 146 on the back of Cameron Green’s 67.<\/p>\n
Star Bangladesh quick Shoriful Islam claimed 7-48 — the best figures from a Bangladeshi bowler in an away Test.<\/p>\n
The visitors crashed for just 64 in their first innings, when Starc took 6-12, and he was the chief tormentor again, claiming 4-39 as Bangladesh crumbled to be 95 all out.<\/p>\n
Skipper Pat Cummins chipped in with 3-10 and Nathan Lyon 3-25.<\/p>\n
“A lot of things went right these couple days and a lot of things went wrong last week,” said Cummins.<\/p>\n
“But yeah, we needed to bounce back, and it was a great few days from the lads. I thought everyone was sharp. It was a great start and we didn’t really let up after that.”<\/p>\n
Bangladesh had a horror start with Shadman Islam lasting just three balls, playing a nothing stroke to a moving Starc delivery and edging to Marnus Labuschagne at point.<\/p>\n
Mominul Haque was equally clueless next ball, failing to offer a shot with Starc removing his off stump and setting up a hat-trick opportunity.<\/p>\n
Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, who was out for a golden duck in the first innings, this time survived to deny Starc.<\/p>\n
But their woes deepened when Tanzid Hasan departed soon after for nine. Starc was again involved, taking a catch in the deep after Tanzid pulled Cummins.<\/p>\n
Character<\/strong><\/p>\n Shanto did well to soak up the pressure after lunch for 46 deliveries, but he eventually lost focus against the off-spin of Nathan Lyon, holing out to the safe hands of Starc at long off on 31.<\/p>\n And when Starc was brought back into the attack, he was front and centre again, enticing a loose shot from Litton Das who was caught without scoring by Beau Webster at third slip.<\/p>\n Mehidy Hasan Miraz struggled to get going and departed to an equally poor shot, lashing at a Cummins bouncer and collected by wicketkeeper Alex Carey.<\/p>\n The Australian captain then removed Hasan Mahmud (two) before Starc took his 10th for the match — the fourth time he has achieved the feat — when he bowled Taijul Islam for seven.<\/p>\n Lyon quickly wrapped up the tail in the first over after tea.<\/p>\n “We know how good Australia are. They showed their character,” said Shanto.<\/p>\n “We were not up to the mark with the bat. It was challenging conditions here with extra bounce and swing, we would like to learn from this.”<\/p>\n Australia resumed at 165-8 with Green on 51 and Lyon on 10.<\/p>\n Green, who scored a century during the first Test in Darwin, kept the scoreboard moving early with quick singles.<\/p>\n But he was undone by an inswinging yorker from the impressive Shoriful that hit him on the toe with a review declaring him out lbw.<\/p>\n A valiant Lyon brought up the 200 for Australia with a towering six off Taskin and with Josh Hazlewood adding 24 crucial runs for the last wicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An irrepressible Mitchell Starc bagged four wickets and 10 for the match as he ripped through the Bangladesh batting to ensure a commanding innings and 51-run second Test victory for Australia inside two days on Sunday. The visitors headed into the Mackay showdown on a high after shocking the world’s top-ranked team by nine wickets …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}