Bangladesh cricket team has come a long way since the days when they were branded as minnows and easy pickings for the traditional powerhouses. There was a time when showed rare spark, and produced an upset here and there.
However, these performances were largely limited to white-ball cricket with a win over India at the 2007 group stage match of the ODI World Cup being one of their memorable performances. But what about Test cricket?
The red-ball cricket required an altogether different temperament, skill, and patience that many experts doubted the Bangladeshis had acquired.
But one Test match in 2017 at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in 2017 changed that perception. Going by history, Australia were everyone’s favorite to win the first match of their tour of Bangladesh. But the hosts defied the odds and recorded their first-ever over the tourists on the final day (August…
