The Australian team is hosting Bangladesh in a 2-Test series. The first test of this series is being played in Darwin. The condition of the Australian team, which came to bat first after winning the toss, is bad. Bangladeshi fast bowlers have given him 4 blows within 29 runs. Travis Head and Jake Weatherald made a partnership of 45 runs for the first wicket but after this the Kangaroo team's innings faltered.
Hasan Mahmood, the first Bangladeshi bowler to take 5 wicket haul in Test cricket on Indian soil, has also made a great start in Australia. This right-arm fast bowler first got local boy Jake Weatherald caught by wicketkeeper Liton Das and then dismissed Travis Head. While Weatherald scored 23 runs, Head departed after scoring 22 runs.
The Australian team had not even recovered from these two blows when Ibadat Hussain gave the third blow to Australia by taking the wicket of Marnus Labuschagne. Labuschagne could score only 1 run after playing 20 balls. After this, Steve Smith and Cameron Green took the innings forward but Taskin Ahmed did not allow this partnership to last for long. He caught Green (13) at the hands of Mushfiqur Rahim standing at short midwicket and made Australia's score 74/4 till lunch. Now the responsibility of bailing out the Kangaroo team from the crisis rests on the shoulders of Smith and Cameron Green.
A Test match is being played in the Northern Territory of Australia after 22 years. Australian opener Weatherald has created history by entering this match. He became the first player who was both born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in a Test in his home town of Darwin. Legendary Australian batsman Damien Marten was also born in Darwin but played domestic cricket for Western Australia. However, Weatherald could not entertain his home crowd much and lost his wicket after scoring 23 runs.
