Bangladesh vs Australia 2017: 5 reasons why Bangladesh can humble Australia

#4 Recent performances against strong teams

Bangladesh have humbled England and Sri Lanka in the past 10 months

Bangladesh have produced some really impressive performances against the strongest teams of the sport in all formats of the sport. In Tests, Bangladesh’s performances have improved immensely. While they have whitewashed Zimbabwe 3-0 in 2014, they have also produced some pretty wonderful performances against the bigger nations.

The Tigers managed to draw the home Test series against New Zealand and South Africa in 2013 and 2015 respectively. However, few of their finest Test performances came in the last 10 months when Bangladesh nearly defeated England in a Test match at Chittagong only to narrowly lose by 22 runs.

This was followed by a historic win for Bangladesh against England at Dhaka by 108 runs thanks to some sensational bowling from Mehedi Hasan Miraz who took 6 wickets in both innings.

A few months later, Bangladesh played Sri Lanka at Sri Lanka where the hosts defeated the Tigers by 259 runs in the first Test at Galle. However, the visitors rebounded brilliantly by defeating Sri Lanka by 4 wickets in the second Test at Colombo, thus registering their first away win since winning in West Indies in 2009.

Bangladesh will definitely take inspiration from these sensational performances and look forward to replicating those performances so that they can push the Aussies.