Archive · 23 Aug 2026
Australia Level Series, Strengthen World Test Championship Position
Australia and Bangladesh played the second match of a two-Test cricket series.
Bangladesh had won the first match in Darwin, but Australia won the second match in Mackay.
Australia scored 210 runs in its only innings.
Bangladesh was dismissed for 64 runs and then 95 runs.
Mitchell Starc was Australia’s best bowler and took 10 wickets in the match.
Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon also took three wickets each.
The result levelled the series and improved Australia’s World Test Championship position.
Australia’s win percentage rose to 80 percent, while Bangladesh’s dropped to 55.56 percent.
The reports disagree about whether the victory margin was an innings and 51 runs or 51 runs.
Australia defeated Bangladesh in the second Test in Mackay to level the two-match series.
Reports describe the margin as an innings and 51 runs, while one report calls it a 51-run win.
Australia made 210, while Bangladesh scored 64 and 95 in its two innings.
Mitchell Starc took 10 wickets, although the reports give different innings figures.
Australia’s win percentage rose to 80 percent, while Bangladesh’s fell to 55.56 percent, with neither team changing position.
- Who
- Australia and Bangladesh, with Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon prominent for Australia.
- What
- Australia won the second Test and levelled the two-match series; reports differ on the precise victory margin.
- When
- The match ended on Sunday, with one report specifying August 23, and lasted less than two days.
- Where
- Mackay, Australia; the first Test was played in Darwin.
- Why
- Australia’s victory improved its World Test Championship win percentage and strengthened its qualification prospects.
- Australia's score
- 210 runs in its only innings.
- Bangladesh's scores
- 64 runs in the first innings and 95 in the second.
- Reported result
- One report says Australia won by an innings and 51 runs; another describes a 51-run win.
- Mitchell Starc
- He took 10 wickets in the match. Reported innings figures differ: 5/18 and 5/29 in one account, versus 6/12 and 4/39 in another.
- Win percentages
- Australia’s rose to 80 percent, while Bangladesh’s fell to 55.56 percent.
- Other Australian wicket-takers
- Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon took three wickets each.
- WTC qualification
- The top two teams by win percentage qualify for the 2027 WTC Final at Lord’s in London in June.
