After the Australian received ICC trophy for the best Test team and ODI team of the year, barely any would have dreamt in the wildest of wildest dreams that the Aussies will be trying to avoid follow on against one of the minnows of Cricket in two days. But that's what has happened in Australia's 1st test against Bangladesh.
Call it a miracle or anything, the Bangladeshi's are giving Aussies a run for their money.
Electing to bat, Bangladesh made a mammoth 427 in their first innings. World's highest wicket taker, Shane Warne got clobbered around for 112 runs in 20 overs that too without a wicket.
The funnier part was that Australia went into the match with five bowlers Lee, Clark, Gillespie, Warne and Macgill. Still they were unable to prevent Bangladesh from posting a big total at an healthy run rate of 3.46.
When it was the Aussies turn to bat, everybody expected there might be a world record score since the pitch seemed to be a batting beauty. But what awaited was even worse, half the team was inside the dressing room with the score at 79. Shane Warne departed at 93, then Gilchrist and Brett Lee salvaged some pride with a stand of 52.
Aussies need another 83 runs to make Bangladesh bat again, let us see what happens today.
The fact that the man who has been instrumental for this turnaround is another Australian Dav Whatmore tells the tale about Australia's hold over cricket nowadays. He has made an impact with every team he goes, first he bought World Cup glory with Sri Lanka and now inspiring the Bangladeshi's. Hope the so called minnows turn into a reasonable figure in World Cricket and make the world of cricket more interesting.
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Hey! Sorry for asking but are you one of the guys who hates Aussies? because If you do, well it is rather foolish. The greatest team in the history of Intl. Cricket lost out on one day after literally ruling the ground for 4years.
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