Nikola

Root is doing really well, average of around 52-53 since 2020 with 24 centuries! few bad matches can happen with anyone, he can continue to play till he is fresh mentally, only other member of fab four left now to retire is smith who has declined alot, his career average was almost 65 around 7k runs if i remember, now he is averaging around 46-47 which is way below his caliber. People talk about virat's decline but smith has had similar decline too which rarely gets talked about. Never rated kane anywhere near fab four.

Why do we still keep playing icc events and asia cup with them? also why schedule every time is such that we get to play them 3 times in these tournaments? Shows that we too are desperate for money even after being richest board.

Why do we even need all format players? There is too much talent in india, given amount of injuries players have max they should be playing is 2 format to share workload (especially for pace bowlers)

Bangladesh fighting back, they can get australia all out below 200 but that would still mean 130-140 lead for australia, they will have to bat really well to win this.

Nahid Rana would have loved to bowl in these conditions, what a miss for bangladesh.

Labuschagne used to be very lucky in initial phase of his career and now luck going against him these days.

Head gone, bangladesh has chance to get australia under 150.

Did australia roll out green top after first test loss?

Should end up as best test cricketer to debut for india this century.

Rishabh has played 100+ limited over matches so he got decent chance to prove himself, in this era you have too much talent especially for limited overs so no point in trying him. He should completely focus on test cricket and try to achieve 6-7k runs @ 44-45 average with current impact and he can finish as GOAT wicket keeper.

Mehidy is star for bangladesh, probably best all rounder going around in test cricket currently, doesn't get exposure to different conditions but he proved how good he is in this test match.

So even though not a victory by an innings, this is nothing less than that, what a performance by bangladesh team, played like matured and experienced team in these condition in every department. Can they whitewash australia at home?

From here on, only Bangladesh can win. Australia doesn't have the batting to score 500+ on a 3rd/4th day pitch, and even if they somehow get a 200+ lead, they don't have the bowling to get 10 wickets. Well done to the Bangladesh players, first tour after 23 years, hardly any experience of these conditions, and dominating this Test match like an experienced team.

Current pair has done well to survive till end of day, there was a chance of collapse with new ball, Tomorrow if they can take a 200+ Lead then it should be game over for australia.

and this record confirms it

Smith is very underrated slip fielder, his batting gets spoken alot but he is best slips fielder of this era too. Bangladesh throwing it away against new ball, can't get better chance than this.

Litton had to score some runs and build partnership but gets out for duck. Bangladesh need lead of atleast 180-200 to secure the match.

England and indian team can take inspiration from bangladesh on how well they have done without any experience of these conditions.

Australia keeps dropping Boland all the time and keep loosing, boland is one of the key reasons Australia has had success against India in WTC finals and winning series after 10 years. They dropped him for the WTC finals too.

Bangladesh has a chance to get Australia out below 200. They have a decent enough bowling attack to win matches here and there overseas if batsmen support it.

He had shown great ability in initial phase, i will say his first half he was averaging around 45 with some really good overseas knocks but then it was complete downfall. Very underrated captain because he always led his team in crisis and still never lost any match.

Rip.

Not sure why it took so long, should have been asked to retire right after champions trophy final. Now the closer you get to the worldcup, the fewer games for youngsters to replace him at top.

NZ outplayed england and everyone seems to be focused on farewell circus of the captain stokes, who may comeback few months later for the ashes.