Mitchell Starc’s 10-wicket match haul, backed by three wickets apiece from Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon, powered Australia to an innings-and-51-run victory over Bangladesh in Mackay, levelling the series in record time.
Green’s most recent decisive wicket fell only when Shoriful Islam delivered a fierce in-swinger which disbalanced the tall right-hander. Starc finished off his second catch with both hands when Tanzid Hasan pulled Cummins to long-leg. Tanzid, who had scored a century in Darwin, then recorded his third score in the single digits since hitting that ton in the first innings.
On Sunday morning Australia were already in the match with a lead of 101 runs and increased that to 146 when their last two wickets put in more than a quarter (62) of their total runs. Cameron Green continued his outstanding series by scoring the highest individual score of the match, which was 67, following on from his 104 the previous week. Shoriful’s figures of 7-48 represented the best performance by a foreign bowler since Curtly Ambrose’s 7-25 in Perth in 1993, but it was in vain as Australia’s all-out score of 210 became the lowest total to have led to an innings victory in 80 years.
