Australia and Bangladesh are two of the most popular cricket teams in the world. The two nations do not play bilateral cricket regularly, but whenever they clash in ICC tournaments, the matches receive a lot of attention. Australia have been quite dominant in the matches against Bangladesh across all three formats. Given below is their head-to-head record across all three formats.
Australia vs Bangladesh Head to Head in Test Series
Head-to-head statistics of Australia vs Bangladesh in Tests are given below:
Series-wise Statistics
| First bilateral series | 2003 | Won by Australia |
| Last bilateral series | 2017 | Won by Bangladesh |
Australia and Bangladesh have played three Test series against each other. The first happened in Australia in 2003, while the next two series took place in Bangladesh in 2006 and 2017. Bangladesh has never won a Test series against Australia.
The closest the Bangladesh cricket team came to defeating Australia was in 2017, when they recorded a historic Test match win against them. It was a two-match series, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
| Total no. of series | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Drawn |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Match-wise statistics
| First Match | July 2003 | Won by Australia |
| Last Match | August 2017 | Won by Australia |
Australia have won five out of the six Test matches they have played against Bangladesh. The Aussies only lost one match which happened in August 2017 on Bangladesh’s soil. Australia have won two home Tests against Bangladesh. Notably, not a single Test match between Bangladesh and Australia has ended in a draw.
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Bangladesh and Australia have not played regular bilateral Test series against each other. Thus, despite being Test-playing nations for a long time, they have only played six matches against each other.
| Total no. of matches | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Drawn |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Australia vs Bangladesh Head to Head in ODI Series
Here is a look at the head-to-head record between Australia and Bangladesh in ODI format.
Series-wise Statistics
| First bilateral series | 2003 | Won by Australia |
| Last bilateral series | 2011 | Won by Australia |
The first bilateral series between Australia and Bangladesh happened in the year 2003. Australia won that series by 3-0 on home turf. In the next eight years, Bangladesh and Australia played three series against each other, and in all the matches, Australia remained undefeated.
Australia have been quite dominant in bilateral ODI matches against the Bangladesh team. In total, four series have happened between the two sides - two in Australia and two in Bangladesh. Australia has whitewashed Bangladesh in all the bilateral series.
In other tournaments, Australia and Bangladesh have battled nine times. Bangladesh recorded their only ODI win against Australia in the 2005 NatWest Series in England. However, the final series winner in the other nine tournaments was not always Australia or Bangladesh.
| Total no. of series | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Drawn | Won by another team |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Match-wise statistics
| First Match | 1990 | Won by Australia |
| Last Match | 2019 | Won by Australia |
Australia have lost only one ODI match in the 21 games they have played against Bangladesh. The Aussies have recorded 19 victories in 21 matches, with one match ending in Bangladesh’s favor and one match ending with no result.
Bangladesh and Australia battled in 12 bilateral matches, with the Aussies winning all the games. In multi-nation tournaments, Bangladesh upset them in 2005, but in all other World Cup, Austral-Asia Cup, tri-series and Champions Trophy games, Bangladesh failed to win.
| Total no. of matches | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Tied | No result |
| 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Australia vs Bangladesh Head to Head in T20I Series
Given below is the head-to-head record between Australia and Bangladesh in T20I format.
Series-wise Statistics
| First bilateral series | August 2021 | Won by Bangladesh |
| Last bilateral series | August 2021 | Won by Bangladesh |
Bangladesh have a 1-0 lead in the bilateral T20I series head-to-head record against Australia. The two teams battled in a historic T20I series in 2021, where Bangladesh defeated the Aussies by 4-1 in a five-match series. Bangladesh hosted that series, and the Australian side failed to play well in the spin-friendly conditions.
Apart from that, Australia and Bangladesh have also battled in five different T20 World Cup events. Four of those series were won by another nation. In 2021/22, Australia won the T20 World Cup in UAE and Oman. They defeated Bangladesh in Super 12s en route to the final.
| Total no. of series | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Drawn | Won by another team |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Match-wise Statistics
| First Match | 2007 | Won by Australia |
| Last Match | 2021 | Won by Australia |
Australia have a slender lead of 6-4 in the head-to-head record in T20Is against Bangladesh. The Aussies have played 10 T20I matches against Bangladesh, recording six wins and four losses. All four wins of the Bangladesh team came in the bilateral series, which they hosted in the year 2021.
Meanwhile, Australia won one match in that bilateral series, and the remaining five victories came in different editions of the T20 World Cup. Australia beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in their last T20I battle back in 2021.
| Total no. of matches | Won by Australia | Won by Bangladesh | Tied | No result |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
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