Australia tour of Bangladesh, Aug 22-Sept 8

[mikesiva]

Tue Aug 22 - Wed Aug 23 10:00 local (04:00 GMT)
TBC v Australia
Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

Sun Aug 27 - Thu Aug 31 10:00 local (04:00 GMT)
1st Test - Bangladesh v Australia
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

Mon Sep 4 - Fri Sep 8 10:00 local (04:00 GMT)
2nd Test - Bangladesh v Australia
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

[andy]

article on cricinfo, about Maxwell and his efforts to re-design his bowling action, so he can be called upon as the team;'s 4th spinner on the tour

[alfie]

Smith saying Khawaja will play. Good luck with that...Bangladeshi spinners will eat him for breakfast...

Also Agar pencilled in ahead of the new boy , Swepson. He's been talked up for a return a few times but this time he probably will get to add to his Test Caps.

Wonder exactly what O'Keefe did to be so summarily dismissed from calculations...

[andy]

hmm i agree about O'Keefe alfie...maybe it's his off field antics they dont like?

[Making_Splinters]

Well, O'Keefe was banned from a domestic competition only a few months ago for being offensive while drunk at an official CA event, wasn't he also in trouble with the police for being drunk this year as well. Hardly surprising he's not getting picked for the international side.

[andy]

Real shame that he has decided to take that route...because he is easily the 2nd best spinner in OZ, much more threatning than Agar...

[Making_Splinters]

At this point he'd probably be better looking for a County contract for the winter season rather than holding out for an international call up. The rumor was always that Clarke didn't like him, since Clarke left he seems to have just blown up his career.

[andy]

Noticed Khawaja has been re-called? Any chance of Joe Burns ever getting a recall? Didn't do too bad IMO when in the side and is a useful player of spin..even if he batted 3?

[yuppie]

No warm up game for Aus, got to help BD.

I would have BD as favourites for this series. Aus did well in India, but had a shocking tour of SL before hand.

[backfootpunch]

Given how the aussies played in Sri Lanka a historic victory for Bangladesh could be on the cards

[andy]

Shame that their warm-up was washed out..tough to go into a sub-contiental series with no time in the middle agianst spin at all..

[yuppie]

It looks like Agar will be getting another test cap.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Feels ages since Australia played a Test.

Are they going:
Warner/Renshaw/Smith/Khawaja/Handscomb/Wade/Agar/Cummins/Lyon/Hazlewood/Bird?

Swepson/Maxwell/Cartwright.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Cricinfo has Maxwell for Bird in that scenario. And for BD:

1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Imrul Kayes, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Sabbir Rahman, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Mehidy Hasan, 9 Taijul Islam, 10 Shafiul Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman,

[Arthur Crabtree]

Slapsy scored runs in India, so will play in BD. Good memory these selectors.