Bangladesh were 54 all out eight days ago, and they have beaten Australia by nine wickets

Mominul Haque cut Beau Webster to the boundary at 2.36pm local time in Darwin on Sunday, and Bangladesh had won a Test match in Australia. The target was 57. They lost one wicket getting there, and the celebrations came in an almost empty Marrara Stadium in front of a small group of travelling fans.

Australia made 198 and 284. Bangladesh made 426 and 57 for 1. Nine wickets, with a day and a half to spare.

Two Tests in 2003, then nothing for 23 years

This was Bangladesh’s third Test in Australia. The first two came in July 2003, at Darwin and Cairns, and both ended in innings defeats. Then the fixture disappeared from the calendar for 23 years.

Their only previous Test win over Australia came at Mirpur in August 2017, when Shakib Al Hasan took ten wickets in the match and Bangladesh won by 20 runs. That one was at home, on a surface built for it. This one was in the Northern Territory against a side ranked first in the world.

Eight days before it, Bangladesh were bowled out for 54 by a Cricket Australia XI on the same ground, Campbell Thompson taking 8 for 25. Tanzid Hasan top-scored with 22 and nobody else reached double figures. That was the form line going into a Test match.

Hasan Mahmud took 6 for 55 on day one

Pat Cummins won the toss and batted. Australia were out for 198 inside 53 overs, the lowest total they have made against Bangladesh in Test cricket. Steven Smith made 71 and the next best was 23.

Hasan Mahmud’s 6 for 55 were career-best figures and the first five-wicket haul by any Bangladesh bowler in Australia. Taskin Ahmed and Ebadot Hossain took two each, which meant Bangladesh’s seamers had taken all ten in an innings for only the second time in their Test history. Ricky Ponting later questioned Cummins for choosing to bat.

426, and 52.3 overs from Mehidy with the tail

Tanzid answered the warm-up in his second Test match. His 101 came off 197 balls and put Bangladesh past Australia’s total with seven wickets standing. Najmul Hossain Shanto added 84, Mominul 49, Mushfiqur Rahim 36.

Josh Hazlewood took 6 for 89 and reached 300 Test wickets in the innings, but Australia dropped five catches and the innings would not close. Mehidy Hasan Miraz batted 52.3 overs with the lower order for 65, adding 46 with Hasan Mahmud and 46 more with Taskin. Bangladesh were all out for 426 and 228 in front.

Green’s hundred, and Mehidy’s five

Australia went into the fourth day at 161 for 4, still 67 behind. Mehidy bowled 33.1 of those overs and took 5 for 66. Australia managed under two runs an over off him.

Alex Carey played down the wrong line and was caught behind for 30. Webster was bowled by one that drifted away and hit off stump. Cummins inside-edged to Shadman Islam at short leg. Nathan Lyon was lbw sweeping, which ended it.

Cameron Green held one end for 104 off 201 balls, his third Test century and his first at home, before Hasan Mahmud nipped one back to bowl him. Mahmud finished with 3 for 56 and nine wickets in the match, and was named player of the match. Australia’s 284 left a target smaller than Green’s individual score.

Shadman finished 25 not out, Mominul 30 not out. Tanzid was bowled by Hazlewood for a duck, the only wicket Bangladesh lost all afternoon.

What it does to the World Test Championship table

Australia went into the match on 87.50 per cent, top of the 2025-27 standings with seven wins from eight. They took nothing from Darwin. They are still first, on 84 points and 77.78 per cent from nine matches, but the cushion is thinner.

Bangladesh collected the full 12 points and moved to 66.67 per cent, fourth, with three wins and a draw from five. India sit fifth on 48.15 per cent and are in the middle of their own Test in Sri Lanka, where rain has been eating into the Galle match.

The second Test starts on 22 August at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay. Bangladesh lead a series in Australia, which is a sentence nobody has written before.

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