Bangladesh thrash Australia in one of Test cricket's greatest upsets
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- Bangladesh defeated Australia by nine wickets on day four in Darwin, chasing just 57 runs after bowling Australia out for 284 in the second innings.
- Mehidy Hasan Miraz claimed 5-66 in the second innings to bowl out Australia, after scoring 65 with the bat on day three to help build a first-innings lead of 228.
- Hasan Mahmud was named player of the match, taking 6-55 in the first innings and 3-56 in the second, including the wicket of Cameron Green (104) that ended Australia's resistance.
- Australia, the top-ranked Test nation, had only previously lost one Test to Bangladesh — at Mirpur in 2017 — according to the source.
- Bangladesh had been bowled out for just 54 by a Cricket Australia XI in a warm-up match in Darwin days earlier, and were without injured fast bowlers Nahid Rana and Shoriful Islam.
- Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto called it "the biggest win so far for Bangladesh in any format," while Pat Cummins said Australia were "outplayed in all facets" with "no excuses," per the article.
- Bangladesh prime minister Tarique Rahman congratulated the team via video call, telling players "we're all eagerly waiting to welcome you home."
Why it matters: Australia, the world's top-ranked Test side, lost at home to the ninth-ranked team missing two leading fast bowlers — a result ABC commentator Jim Maxwell called "one of the most embarrassing defeats that Australia have ever suffered in Test cricket." It marks Bangladesh's first Test win on Australian soil in 26 years of competing in the format and gives them a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series.
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