hot off his breakout century in the third one-day match between the nations <\/a>\u2014 rebuilt the innings in a 40-run third-wicket stand with Tim David, who made 20 before falling to Mehidy Hasan.<\/p>\nConnolly then pushed Australia towards the target before he was caught attempting a six off debutant Abdul Gaffar Saqlain.<\/p>\n
Australia stumbled again as Matt Renshaw and debutant Nikhil Chaudhary both fell for 18, with Saqlain and Rishad Hossain striking to keep Bangladesh in the contest.<\/p>\n
But debutant Joel Davies and Xavier Bartlett saw the visitors home in 18.2 overs, finishing unbeaten on seven and four respectively.<\/p>\n
Davies said Australia\u2019s bowlers had adapted their plans to the venue\u2019s dimensions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere in Bangladesh, the grounds are a fair bit smaller than in Australia, so if there were any parts of the ground that were slightly bigger, I had to use that to my advantage,\u201d he said after the match.<\/p>\n
Saqlain returned 2-32, while Shoriful, Mustafizur, Mehidy and Rishad took one wicket each.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Australia\u2019s spinners dominated as Bangladesh were bowled out for 131 after electing to bat.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Cooper Connolly, right and Tim David run between the wickets to score during the first T20 international cricket match between Australia and Bangladesh, in Chattogram , Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Mosaraf Hossain)Source: AP<\/p>\n
Adam Zampa (3-18) and Davies (3-17) led the attack, with Australia\u2019s spinners taking nine wickets, the most by Australian spin bowlers in a T20I innings.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh lost momentum after a brisk powerplay, finishing with only 131 despite reaching 52 in six overs.<\/p>\n
Mehidy top-scored with an unbeaten 29, while stand-in captain Towhid Hridoy, captain in place of the injured Litton Das, made eight.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh pace bowling coach Talha Jubair said the hosts failed to build on a promising powerplay.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur powerplay was excellent, we scored 52 in six overs, but from there we could not carry on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went too far for boundaries when we could have built a partnership. We lost three wickets between overs seven and 15, where we needed to build our innings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Connolly continued his impressive form with the bat as two Australian debutants impressed in a four-wicket win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[357879,24688,2620,64,63,357880,13047,26808,189778,164239,22256,121734,14477,11883,44,194811,357881,153134,357877,226620,23037,357878,26797],"class_list":["post-742544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abdul-gaffar-saqlain","tag-adam-zampa","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-spin-bowlers","tag-bangladesh","tag-cooper-connolly","tag-four-wicket-win","tag-joel-davies","tag-josh-inglis","tag-matt-renshaw","tag-mitchell-marsh","tag-mustafizur-rahman","tag-news","tag-nikhil-chaudhary","tag-pace-bowling-coach","tag-stand-in-captain","tag-talha-jubair","tag-third-wicket-stand","tag-tim-david","tag-visitors-home","tag-xavier-bartlett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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