Australia cricket team Bangladesh v Australia: second Test, day three – as it happened

Mominul Haque jumps to avoid a powerful Glenn Maxwell shot in Chittagong. Photograph: A.M. Ahad/AP
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Adam Collins (now) Kate O'Halloran (earlier)
Wednesday 6 September 2017 12.49 BST First published on Wednesday 6 September 2017 04.30 BST
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6 Sep 2017 STUMPS! Australia 377-9 (O'Keefe 8, Lyon 0). Lead by 72 runs.
6 Sep 2017 BAD LIGHT STOPS PLAY!
6 Sep 2017 WICKET! Agar b Shakib 22 (Australia 376-9)
6 Sep 2017 WICKET! Cummins lbw b Mehedi 4 (Australia 364-8)
6 Sep 2017 WICKET! Maxwell c Mushfiqur b Mehedi 38 (Australia 346-7)
6 Sep 2017 WICKET! Wade lbw b Mustafizur 8 (Australia 342-6)
6 Sep 2017 WICKET! (AND TEA). Cartwright c Soumya b Mehedi 18 (Australia 321-5: Maxwell 24, Wade 0)
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6 Sep 2017
12:49
STUMPS! Australia 377-9 (O'Keefe 8, Lyon 0). Lead by 72 runs.

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A day for the home side. All told, Australia lost 7-for-124. It never looked like happening when Warner and Handscomb kept on keeping on, but they they got bogged down when Warner reached 99, the pressure more than anything else bringing Handscomb’s run out on 82.

Nevertheless, Warner kept doing as he does. 20 Tests in 66 matches - no big deal. But the second new ball was enough to prompt an error from him on 123, parrying Mustafizur around the corner, well taken by Imrul.

From 298-for-3, a collapse of 5-for-66 either side of tea was very familiar. Cartwright dazzled for 18, but edged on the cusp of tea. Wade missed one coming back into his pads, reviewing poorly. Maxwell, who battled, did likewise when inside edging on 38. Cummins was also lbw, a wonderful review from Bangladesh when he shouldered arms to a ball ptching well outside the off-stump.

Agar showed suitably resistance, but was the last to fall on the day, bowled through the gate by Shakib, who was also responsible for the aforementioned Handscomb run out. And with that bad luck stopped play with O’Keefe and Lyon left. In short, in a truncated day this game has been turned on its head.

Thanks for your company on the OBO throughout the course of it. We’ll be back tomorrow with Sam Perry on the tools for the morning session. Until then, bye for now from Chittagong.
114th over: Australia 370-8 (Agar 19, O’Keefe 4)

Mustafizur gets his wish when Agar grabs a single when mid-off misfields. O’Keefe plays and misses first up. That’ll get the fast bowler excited. He keeps on keeping on though, pumping a ball down the ground for a boundary. Way to ruin my strike-rate talking point, SOK. At one stage in India it got down to 14, which is the lowest on record. Noting that balls faced in Tests were only kept properly and thoroughly since 1980. Still, nice to have a record to your name. Carl Rackemann was right up there (down there?) in that list as well, for his Brisbane Ashes vigil in 1990-91.

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6 Sep 2017
12:19
113th over: Australia 365-8 (Agar 18, O’Keefe 0)

O’Keefe taking Mehedi. And doing it fine, forward reflexively. Another maiden. SOK’s strike rate is less than 19 in Tests, so we’re getting what you should expect.Lights are on here.

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6 Sep 2017
12:15
112th over: Australia 365-8 (Agar 18, O’Keefe 0)

Mustafizur can’t get a look at O’Keefe as Agar is doing a good enough job keeping him out. Won’t have many more in him, the humidity as it is. Still getting a decent amount of movement back into Agar. Shakes it up by going around the wicket to finish, but met with a straight bat at the other end. Really good batting from the West Australian.

This is the best, by the way. Nasir Hossain’s antics when the Cummins decision was overturned. He’s definitely going to get whacked for it, and fined, but doesn’t seem the sort to care on the available evidence of, well, this.

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6 Sep 2017
12:08
111th over: Australia 365-8 (Agar 18, O’Keefe 0)

Another long drinks break. Humid out there. Mehedi giving O’Keefe his first look. To think it was only this time last week that he was on the plane here. Nothing wrong with the approach here, getting forward throughout the over. Maiden.

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Drinks. 21 overs left. Australia 6-for-111 today, lead by 60. If Bangladesh can finish this off, they could wipe that by stumps. #BANvAUS
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6 Sep 2017
12:01
110th over: Australia 365-8 (Agar 18, O’Keefe 0)

Mustafizur given another go. But I suspect this is in order to have him get a go at SOK rather than Agar, who is handling him easily so far. Straight bat this time around, until the bouncer comes, which he ducks. Wide signalled. They’ll take whatever they can get at this point, the wind very much at Bangladesh’s back. Still 22 overs left today (including this one), so we’re going to be using the extra half an hour. Agar back to defending, then leaving. And it is drinks. Huge hour for Bangladesh, who ripped three more wickets out in a hurry. They have 6-for-111 today. But need to finish the job.

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6 Sep 2017
11:56
WICKET! Cummins lbw b Mehedi 4 (Australia 364-8)

All going wrong for Australia in the third umpire booth. Cummins has shouldered arms to a ball that pitched a long, long way outside off-stump. But keeping a fraction lower, and turning an awful lot, DRS shows it is crashing into off-stump! Hossain has stood next to Umpire Llong to immitate the ‘change of decision/out’ signals. Quite amusing really, but I suspect he’ll be having his match fee docked. Australia in strife.

109th over: Australia 364-8 (Agar 18, O’Keefe 0)

Updated at 11.57am BST
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6 Sep 2017
11:52
HAS CUMMINS BEEN DONE LBW? Another review! From Bangladesh this time. Shouldering arms.

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6 Sep 2017
11:49
108th over: Australia 359-7 (Agar 17, Cummins 0)

Agar not bothered by the pressure, pulling with ease through mid-on. Back to back fours for him to get going. I neglected to mention in the previous post that Agar is also, indeed, loveable. These are the golden children (as it were) of this Australian side. Just as it was in Dhaka, they have ample to do with their secondary discipline here. Boom! He goes again when Mustafizur drops short, crunching through cover. And four more (!) when the quick misses his yorker, the left-hander getting down to it in time for a nicely tickled boundary. Three boundaries in the over, Agar racing to 17, retaining the strike with another little flick. Australia move beuond 350 and the lead 50 as well through the course of the very productive set.

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6 Sep 2017
11:45
107th over: Australia 346-7 (Agar 4, Cummins 0)

Pat Cummins, the big loveable lad, to the middle. He’s leaving and defending the second half of Mehedi’s over. A bit of confusion up here (without television at this stage) whether that was a straightforward batsman review or if Gould sent it upstairs himself to see if it carried. If the former, it is a shocker, as that was a big inside edge from Maxwell.

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6 Sep 2017
11:40
WICKET! Maxwell c Mushfiqur b Mehedi 38 (Australia 346-7)

No doubt about that one, big inside edge onto the bad, goes behind Maxwell but the ‘keeper remains balanced and comes forward to complete the low catch. Just at the stage of his 98-ball stay that the Australian no. 5 looked in some control as well. Two wickets, no runs. The lead still 41. Game on.
IS MAXWELL CAUGHT IN CLOSE? Review to find out!

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6 Sep 2017
11:35
106th over: Australia 346-6 (Maxwell 38, Agar 4)

Credit again to Mushfiqur. The third time he’s made a chance in this innings that has immediately brought a wicket. Some questionable decision making from the skipper later yesterday, but he’s on the ball here. Agar the new man. He gets off the mark to the final ball, lovely way to do it to with a drive through cover. First time I’ll mention this: Australia lead by 41.

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6 Sep 2017
11:32
WICKET! Wade lbw b Mustafizur 8 (Australia 342-6)

No inside edge, three red lights, he’s gone! The most assured Wade has looked at the crease on tour, but the innings is over before it really gets going. Mustafizur is the man, brought back into the attack with his left arm seam and able to bring one back from over the wicket, beating the Australian on the inside edge. Not overstating it to say that could very well be his final Test innings. That’s a long trudge off. Poor fella.

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6 Sep 2017
11:29
IS WADE LBW THIS TIME? Mustafizur thinks so! Umpire Gould agrees. Wade reviews. Big moment in the context of his career.

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6 Sep 2017
11:28
105th over: Australia 341-5 (Maxwell 37, Wade 8)

Maxwell again off strike first ball. A sound plan. Through cover this time. Wade in good shape defending. He’s not done a lot, if anything, wrong since his arrival. I share Todd’s below view.

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104th over: Australia 340-5 (Maxwell 36, Wade 8)

Shakib to the Show. He’s able to work him for one to begin, to the onside. Wade does likewise after coming down the track. Maxwell picks out the cover sweeper later in the set. Accumulating nicely.

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6 Sep 2017
11:21
103rd over: Australia 337-5 (Maxwell 34, Wade 7)

Before the touch-and-go call from upstairs, Wade played a beautiful cut shot from the balls of his feet past point, to break up the couple of maidens. Keen to see if that reviewed delivery was going to hit the stumps, but yet to see on the telly. Certainly hit in line. Might have done too much. Speaking of umpiring...

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6 Sep 2017
11:17
NOT OUT! But not before Umpire Llong made everyone in the stadium think he was when reaching for his hat! Ball-tracker is irrelevant after it shows Wade is more than three metres down the track when contact was made. Saved by dancing. Not a bad name for a nightclub.

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6 Sep 2017
11:15
IS WADE LEG BEFORE? Review to find out!

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6 Sep 2017
11:14
102nd over: Australia 333-5 (Maxwell 34, Wade 3)

A lot of enthusiasm in the crowd, but hard to tell what for? Not exactly the ‘get boozed / to the Mexican Wave’ types in this part of the world. Maxwell looking the part on the front foot now, and then able to get back quickly enough when the quicker one arrives from Shakib. Back to back maidens from the frontline spinners.
101st over: Australia 333-5 (Maxwell 34, Wade 3)

Mehedi has won his accuracy back either side of tea, Wade brought forward time and again. He’s up to the task. Maiden.

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The pitch still remarkably tame. #BANvAUS
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6 Sep 2017
11:08
100th over: Australia 333-5 (Maxwell 34, Wade 3)

Such an important period for Bangladesh. They won the first session, but they really need to win both in order to apply maximum pressure on Australia at the back end of this Test. Can’t allow themselves to be 100+ in the hole. Maxwell again looking sturdy before taking Shakib down the ground. Wade sweeps one to keep the strike.

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6 Sep 2017
11:06
99th over: Australia 331-5 (Maxwell 33, Wade 2)

Maxwell relaxed defending Mehedi throughout, sweeping one to finish it, keeping the strike.

Updated at 11.14am BST
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6 Sep 2017
11:03
98th over: Australia 330-5 (Maxwell 32, Wade 2)

The Nossain attempt lasts an over, Shakib straight back into it. But he gives away a run to begin in identical fashion to yesterday, attempting to knock a ball back onto the non-striker stumps. Not sure it has quite come to that for the hosts. Wade looking to score from the outset here, one to midwicket. Nearly a mix-up between the wickets, but Maxwell gets back to his ground before any risk of damage. He gets the desired run next ball, into midwicket.

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6 Sep 2017
10:58
97th over: Australia 327-5 (Maxwell 30, Wade 1)

Mehedi took the wicket on the cusp of tea, and continues from the northern end. Wade the man who is on strike. It’s a big day for Maxwell, but bigger for the gloveman. He did almost everything right when ‘keeping, but that’ll be forgotten quickly if he can’t make badly needed runs here. He’s away with a single to midwicket. Maxwell, sticking with the baggy green, into the 30s with a tuck behind the umpire. Nice straight bat from
96th over: Australia 325-5 (Maxwell 29, Wade 0)

Hossain first over after the break. He was handy with the old ball, pinning Warner down on 99 for a lot longer than was comfortable. He’s right on the money with his off-breaks to Maxwell. Oh, typed too soon: long-hop that Maxwell could hit anywhere he wants. Decides on the rope at extra cover.

From the Smith/Warner batting coach, Trent Woodhill. Warner spoke a lot about this after his Dhaka ton. Defending by attacking.WICKET! (AND TEA). Cartwright c Soumya b Mehedi 18 (Australia 321-5: Maxwell 24, Wade 0)

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Last ball before tea! Mehedi gets the outside edge of Cartwright who was looking so good, and lands safely in the hands of Soumya. Not much more to it than that, he was lunging forward and it didn’t spin back towards end. And that is that. Tea it is as well.

The 130 minute session brought three wickets for Bangladesh, Australia adding only 68. So the hosts will take that, even if they are going to also carry with them a first innings deficit. They do have a chance to get in at Australia’s fragile lower order, though. Big moments for Matthew Wade as he prepares to walk out.

Earlier, Handscomb was the first to go. He was on 82 when backing up too far in order to get Warner from 99 to 100, caught short by Shakib with a blistering collect-and-throw from midwicket. Warner spent 15 balls one short of his 20th run, but got there with a cover drive. A fantastic innings for the patience required, by far his slowest in the baggy green, taking 209 balls.

He went up a gear of two after that, but fell not long after the second new ball was taken, parrying a Mustafizur short ball around the corner, taken on the juggle by Imrul Kayes. Plenty more to be said about that hand later, his second hundred on the trot coming in over six hours at the crease.

Maxwell is still at tea but for a host of reasons he’s lucky to be. No direct chances, but playing with fire throughout. Even if he did slowly find his way towards the break. Cartwright looked assured from the get go, his aforementioned dismissal completely against the flow of play.

To tea, with Australia 16 ahead and five wickets in hand. Back with you after I’ve had a quick drink myself. Speak shortly. @abdullatifphadia
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