The current World Test Championship (WTC) table has Bangladesh in fourth spot – ahead of India – but apparently respect in not gained on a chart. Ahead of their first Test in Australia for 23 years, captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto was asked whether the game in Darwin would be over in three days or five.
The query may have its basis in the tourists being rolled over for 54 in the second innings of their tour game against a Cricket Australia XI, with little known left-arm pacer Campbell Thomson taking 8/25. The 22-year-old from South Australia had played just one First-Class game before the game against the Bangladesh outfit. Off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli had taken 6/83 in the first innings.