Bang Bang You're Dead

PL reports on Bangladesh's historic victory in Darwin as Australia admits it will review selection for second Test

When Beau Webster joined Cameron Green at the crease with Australia struggling to stave off an innings victory, the metaphorical scale of Bangladesh’s achievement was obvious. The twin towers, like a pair of Gullivers, were surrounded by the industrious and determined Lilliputians.

Monimul Haque is a full 40cm shorter than the two-metre giants. Few, if any, of the opposition come up to their shoulders. Webster was quickly felled; Green, of course, escaped the snare to make his first hundred at home, but was a lone pillar amid the wreckage.

Apologies if the allusions appear patronising; its intention is quite the opposite. If David had been the same size as Goliath, would anyone have cared?

Australia has lost a Test it shouldn’t, and Pat Cummins concedes trouble had been brewing for some time before this, and perhaps it’s time to swing the axe.