One wicket and a difficult dropped chance was a paltry return for Australia in a morning session where, with sensible and technically sound batting, Bangladesh took full control of the Test match, just 17 runs behind with eight wickets in the bank.
Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood beat the bat a lot, but the relative lack of edges suggested their lengths were too short, and any overcorrections were punished by Tanzid Hasan, Mominul Haque and skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto.
Beau Webster and Cameron Green posed few problems. Tanzid’s chance, grassed by Steve Smith at slip after a deflection off Alex Carey, came in Nathan Lyon’s first over – he might have come on to bowl earlier.
In the final minutes before lunch, Australia were complaining about the ball going out of shape: their first Test of an exacting season is starting to resemble a pear.
Bangladesh 2-181, trailing Australia by 17 runs.