Five times when Bangladesh snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

#2 Lost by 3 wickets versus Australia at Fatullah, 2006

Their spinners toiled all day long but could not have their way around Ricky Ponting

Back when Australia's domination reigned across the world and teams turned up against them rather than competing, Bangladesh had one of the most successful sides in Test history at their mercy. Only in their stages of infancy in Test cricket, they amassed 427 runs in the first innings of the first Test.

The most remarkable feature being the dismantling of some spinner called Shane Warne, as they took his 20 overs for 112 runs.

Bangladesh then made the most of their scoreboard one upmanship, reducing Australia to 6/93. An Adam Gilchrist counterattack of measure ferocity was not enough as Australia gave Bangladesh a first innings lead of 158 runs.

As always, the hosts were taken over by the euphoria of the possibilities as they crashed to 148 all out, eight wickets coming from batsmen failing to put bat on ball.

Despite two phases of not making enough of the advantage, Bangladesh had 307 runs to play with and on a subcontinental track, that might as well be 3007 runs. Their spinners toiled all day long but could not have their way around Ricky Ponting, whose unbeaten 118 got Australia a nervous three-wicket victory.

Bangladesh, had yet again, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.