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Published : 19 Jun 2026, 04:54 PM
Bangladesh have a mountain to climb in the second T20 International after Matt Renshaw and Tim David tore their bowling apart to power Australia to 196 for five.
The hosts now need a record chase to stay alive in the three-match series.
Renshaw and David did the bulk of the damage in Chattogram on Friday, putting on 97 runs off just 50 balls in a brutal fifth-wicket stand that knocked the stuffing out of Bangladesh's bowlers.
Renshaw was the architect, though Tigers handed him two lifelines off Nahid Rana's bowling.
The right-hander made them pay in full, motoring to fifty off just 29 balls before finishing unbeaten on 89 off 52 with five sixes and four fours.
David needed no time to settle, tearing into Abdul Gaffar Saqline on arrival and hammering two sixes and a four off a single over.
The hard-hitting slugger fell for 45 off 26 when he top-edged a big hit to Tanzid Hasan on the boundary.
Their fifth-wicket stand had yielded 97 off just 50 balls by then.
Bangladesh had made a bright start with the ball.
Nahid struck in his very first over on home soil, Nasum Ahmed took his 50th T20I wicket in his 50th match, and Mustafizur Rahman had Mitchell Marsh skying a cutter to midwicket where Saif Hassan took a stunning running catch.
At 44 for three after the powerplay, there was cautious optimism. What followed was carnage.
Rishad Hossain went wicketless and expensive, leaking 46 off four overs, while Saqline was carted for 53.
Only Nasum, with two for 27, came away with credit.
Stand-in captain Towhid Hridoy now needs a batting display of a completely different order to keep Bangladesh in the series.
