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Bowlers bowl with pride

Chips Mackinolty from Darwin
A tragic b atting display in the face of the most ruthless bowling attack in the world left Bangladesh reeling yesterday as the Tigers fell for 97 runs with Australia replying withl21-2 at stumps.
Only sharply focused bowling and fielding left Bangladesh with significant honours on the first day of the inaugural Test with Australia at the Marrara Oval.
Winning the toss and sending Bangladesh into bat was a deliberate tactic by the dominant Australians -- one expected by Tigers' coach Dav Whatmore, who had intended batting first if the toss was won in any case.
"It didn't surprise us ... it's always probably preferable to get a bit of pressure — we knew they would bowl anyway."
A flat pitch and slow outfield was always going to favour bowlers, but the batting was not so much a collapse as a rout in the face of the withering Australian attack.
From the first ball faced by Hannan Sarkar from Glenn McGrath it was obvious, with a slips cordon of six catchers, a fine leg and only two fielders other than the bowler in front of the wicket. It was intimidation of the highest order from the world's strongest team playing the newcomers to internationalcricket.
As it was — as fearless as he was facing the world's greatest quick — Hannan lasted only 17 minutes to go for a duck leg before, with the score at only four runs.
For the rest of the innings, there were only brief highlights from the bat of right-handers Mohammad
Ashraful on 23, caught at fine leg by Jason Gillespie from the bowling of McGrath, and 21 from skipper Khaled Mahmud leg before wicket to leg-spinner Stuart McGill. The demise of the only half way decent partnership, of 27, between the captain and wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud saw the last four wickets fall for onlytenruns.
Although Mahmud's Test average was only six leading up to this match, his strokeplay suggests that he should play higher than number eight, in the hope that he can support some of the more recognised batters. Certainly his work on this tour seems to reflect the sort of maturity that might be useful further up the order -- though Whatmore says that is 'a subjective decision.'
Failures by Habibul Bashar at 16 and Al-Shahariar for a duck, both spectacularly clean bowled by speedster Brett Lee reflects a mortal weakness in the Bangladeshi side — a singular lack of concentration. While Javed Omar looked as though he might settle in to graft a solid opening knock, he fell to a caught behind after 47 minutes for a mere five runs.
No batsman excelled, and this failure from Tigers' batsmen concerns Whatmore.
"There were a few players that presented their wickets, which is just the area we're trying to get better in.
"(Some}of the guys looked reasonably comfortable — but they get out," he said. "It's a learning curve, it's a good opportunity as well — maybetheywere abit overawed."
Once again, as with the match against the Northern Territory Chief Minister's XI, it was the bowlers and fielders who were able to enhance the reputation of the Bangladeshi side.
With a history of breaking the hearts of opponents with big hitting and high scoring, tight fielding and accurate bowling from the Tigers limited the Australians to 2.7 runs an over
Mashrafee-bin-Mortuza threatened from the start, and his dismissal of champion opener Matthew Hayden for 11 was just reward for his accuracy. If his bowling did not unnerve the Australians, at least they treated his attack with caution as he achieved 10 overs at only 19 runs with three maidens.
A brilliant forward diving catch by Javed Omar at short cover from the bat of Ponting and bowling of Tapash Baishya was the highlight of the attack, leaving the Australians at an unexpected 43 -2.
And, while the day ended at 121-2, the honours very much lay with the tourists who managed to limit the Australians to a scoring rate that would be the envy of many of their recent Test opponents. The world's number one side managed only 78 runs in 135 minutes.
"To be honest I'm reasonably happy with the effort that's been put in with the ball," saidWhatmore.
"By and large they gave a very good account of themselves. The guys are pretty keen to get out there and do well for themselves, and I think they're achievingit." SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard on the first day of the first cricket Test between Australia and Bangladesh at Marrara Oval on Friday. BANGLADESH: First innings
Hannan lbwb McGrath 0
lavedcGilchristbGillespie 5
BasharbLee 16
AshrafulcGillespiebMcGrath 23
AlShahriarbLee 0
KapalilbwbMacGill 0
MashudlbwbMcGrath 11
MahmudcGilchristbMacGill 21
MashrafeecGilchristbGillespie 3
Baisyanotout 2
ManjurulcLangerbLee 1
Extras: (b-l,lb-5,w-6, nb-3) 15
Total: (AUoutin42.2overs) 97
Fall of wickets: 1-4,2-26,3-36,4-39,5-40,6-60,7-87,8-91,9-94,10-97.
Bowler O M R W
McGrath 13 6 20 3
Gillespie 8 1 27 2
Lee 8.2 2 23 3
MacGill 13 4 21 2
AUSTRAUAtFirstinnings
Langernotout 40
Hayden bMashrafee 11
PontingcfavedbBaisya 10
Lehmann notout 51
Extras: (lb-4, w-2, nb-3) 9
Total: (For2 wkts in 45 overs) 121
Fallofwickets: 1-13,2-43.
Bowler O M R W
Manjurul 11 3 30 0
Mashrafee 10 3 19 1
Baisya 7 2 9 1
Mahmud 7 0 25 0
Kapali 8 1 25 0
Ashraful 2090
To bat Martin Love, Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Iason Gillespie, Stuart MacGill, Glenn McGrath.
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (RSA) David
Shepherd (ENG)
Toss: Australia