Australia v Bangladesh: T20 World Cup – live!

10.15am GMT10:15

WICKET! Sarkar b Hazlewood 5, Bangladesh 6-2

2nd over: Bangladesh 6-2 (Naim 1) Another chop-on. Different style, this one, Hazlewood bowling back of a length as he usually does. The left-hander just reaches for it, looking to run away a single to deep third, and instead chops it down on the bounce and into his stumps. Whacked one pull shot to the fence in that over, but it ends with his wicket.

10.07am GMT10:07

1st over: Bangladesh 2-1 (Naim 1, Sarkar 1) No, that score isn’t a discount deal. It’s two runs, one wicket.

10.06am GMT10:06

WICKET! Liton Das b Starc 0, Bangladesh 1-1

Gone in the first over! In-swing from Starc, full and moving, and though the line starts across the right-hander, the movement takes his inside edge as he drives, deflecting it back onto the stumps.

9.46am GMT09:46

Teams

Bangladesh
Mohammad Naim
Liton Das +
Soumya Sarkar
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mahmudullah *
Afif Hossain
Shamim Hossain
Mahedi Hasan
Taskin Ahmed
Shoriful Islam
Mustafizur Rahman

Australia
David Warner
Aaron Finch *
Mitchell Marsh
Steven Smith
Glenn Maxwell
Marcus Stoinis
Matthew Wade +
Pat Cummins
Mitchell Starc
Adam Zampa
Josh Hazlewood

9.40am GMT09:40

Australia win the toss and will chase

Sighs of relief from the Aussies. They will know what they’re chasing.

9.22am GMT09:22

Preamble

Geoff Lemon

It’s crunch time. For Australia, that is. For Bangladesh it’s chill out and relax time. They’ve already been knocked out of the T20 World Cup, so they can play as they like. Win, lose, this is their last match and their tournament ends tonight.

Australia, however, have two matches left, so like two figures wrestling through the front window of a saloon, Bangladesh can leave while taking the Aussies with them. Or if Australia win tonight, the eucalypt and wattle dreams can continue a while longer.

Australia’s efforts so far in this tournament have been lacklustre: a drab sort of of win over South Africa, a bigger one over Sri Lanka, then a pasting delivered by England. Bangladesh thrashed the Aussies on slow home pitches a couple of months ago. These conditions won’t be extreme, but scoring off spin will be vital. Meaning that Glenn Maxwell will be vital, and perhaps a bit of Marcus Stoinis. The Australians have to get working, or get leaving.

source: theguardian.com