Australia v Bangladesh: second men’s Test, day one – live

Updates from the Great Barrier Reef Arena Start time in Mackay is 10am AEST Any thoughts? Email Jonathan Today marks the Test debut of the Queensland coastal town of Mackay, joining 11 previous Test venues in Australia.

Mackay is on the border of central and northern Queensland, and overlooks the Coral Sea.

The town’s sporting precinct was originally christened Harrup Park, with the cricket oval named in honour of long-time adminitsrator Ray Mitchell.

However, since 2018 it has taken on the far more exotic title of the Great Barrier Reef Arena.

Sport coverage is powered by hyperbole and recency bias, but the following statement is justifiable: Bangladesh’s defeat of Australia in Darwin is the most profound upset, the greatest revolt against the pre-game odds, in international cricket history.

Australia’s win in England in 1882 so shocked locals that they published a cremation-themed obituary, but the same result had already happened four times on the other side of the world.

Zimbabwe stunned India in 1998, but that was at least in the underdogs’ home conditions.

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