Bangladesh spinners dent Australia
Australia was rocked late in the evening on Sunday, losing three wickets after bowling out Bangladesh for 260 on the first day of the first Test.
Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon and Ashton Agar grabbed three wickets apiece to wrap up the Bangladesh innings, despite Tamim Iqbal (71) and Shakib Al Hasan (84) putting on a 155-run stand.
Bangladesh - meeting Australia in a Test for the first time after 11 years - hit back with its spinners snaring two scalps in the final moments of the day. Usman Khawaja then was run out, leaving Australia in trouble at 18 for 3 at stumps.
David Warner was adjudged out lbw twice in consecutive deliveries off Mehedi Hasan - an inside edge saved him the first time, but there was no escape for him the second time around.
Khawaja couldn't improve his ordinary record in the subcontinent as he was brilliantly run out by Soumya Sarkar, and Shakib dismissed Lyon, the nightwatchman, for a duck to keep Bangladesh in the contest.
Matt Renshaw, the opener, and Steven Smith, the skipper, remained unbeaten on six and three respectively.
It was an excellent comeback by Bangladesh after Cummins singlehandedly reduced it to 10 for 3.
The paceman sent Sarkar back for eight, beating the left-hand opening batsman with a short-pitched ball that took an edge and flew to Peter Handscomb at gully. In his next over, he dismissed Imrul Kayes and Sabbir Rahman for nought off successive balls. There was no hat-trick, but the damage was done.
However, Shakib and Tamim kept the bowlers at bay before Glenn Maxwell, the part-time offspinner, forced the latter to cut one loosely to backward point, where Warner took the catch. Tamim, who like Shakib was playing his 50th Test, made 71.
Shakib hit 84 including 11 fours before he succumbed to Lyon at the brink of tea, with Smith taking a sharp catch at first slip.
There wasn't too much resistance after that as Agar and Lyon mopped up the tail.
Cummins finished with figures of 3 for 63, while Agar bagged 3 for 46. Lyon claimed 3 for 79 took him past Richie Benaud's Test tally of 248 wickets to become Australia's second most successful spinner after Shane Warne.
