Overview
- Bangladesh bowled Australia out for 198 on Thursday after Hasan Mahmud produced a career-best 6-55 that removed top and tail and turned the first day in the visitors’ favour.
- On Friday Tanzid Hasan scored his maiden Test century as Bangladesh reached 351-6 at stumps, giving the tourists a 153-run first-innings lead.
- Steve Smith was the lone major resistance with 71, while several Australian top- and middle-order batsmen failed to score big despite the return of their frontline attack of Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood and Lyon.
- The performance is a sharp reversal after Bangladesh were bowled out for 54 in a warm-up match and comes while Bangladesh cope with bowling injuries that ruled Nahid Rana out of the tour.
- The result increases selection pressure on Australia’s batters ahead of the second Test in Mackay and gives Bangladesh a realistic chance to press for a rare Test win in Australia, their first series visit there since 2003.