{"id":865082,"date":"2026-08-23T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865082\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:20:10","slug":"australia-v-bangladesh-live-scores-hosts-on-top-after-18-wickets-fall-on-first-day-in-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865082\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia v Bangladesh live scores: Hosts on top after 18 wickets fall on first day in Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1xo3i76-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Cricket: After 18 wickets fell on the very first day of Test cricket played at Mackay\u2019s Great Barrier Reef Arena, Australia are on top, but Bangladesh are refusing to go away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fresh off the most impressive win in their history, the tourists were routed for 64 in the first innings, with Mitchell Starc finishing with figures of 6-12 to be the chief destroyer for Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">And while Australia will take a lead of at least 101 into the second innings, the fragility in their batting line-up was exposed again, this time by Bangladesh\u2019s left-armer Shoriful Islam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Follow all the action live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket: After 18 wickets fell on the very first day of Test cricket played at Mackay\u2019s Great Barrier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,56117,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-865082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-cricket-team","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865082","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=865082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}