The left arm offie is continuing around the wicket to the right-handed pair.Cummins is looking good in pushing a single back past the bowler, before Green slashes one into the offside for another run.And that brings the 200 up for Australia!Just the 28 more runs required to make Bangladesh bat again...Cummins is defending strongly out in front.Swing! Ooft. Mehidy loops one up temptingly, and Cummins can't resist. He goes for the expansive drive through the off side but edges it into his pad and to the off side.Big shout! Mehidy absolutely loves it! Cummins is defending inside the line of the ball and it thuds into his back pad! Another excellent slider from Mehidy!The on field decision is not out, and after a long discussion, Bangladesh opt against sending it upstairs.Looked like contact was just outside the line, good call from Shanto.Cummins works a single and then Green is playing all around one that bounces over the stumps to end the over.Thanks Simon and good morning, everyone.Well, another hour of cricket comprehensively won by Bangladesh.Mehidy Hasan Miraz looking absolutely unplayable out there.It's spin twin Taijul continuing after drinks.Trouble! A farcical runout certainly does feel appropriate right about now. And the Australians almost oblige, with the batters getting halfway down the pitch before scampering back from where they came.The throw goes to the strikers end, and Green is home safe.If it went to the non-strikers, Cummins may well have been on his way.Green proceeds to work a single down the ground and the Australians escape the over unscathed.What a Test for captain Pat.Mehidy probes off stump and Cummins fends to mid on.BEATEN! What a ball! Outside off, Cummins throws his hands at it and just misses getting the outside edge.Cummins defends off his pads.Stride from Cummins, who defends with a lunge forward.BEATEN! What a ball! Cummins tentatively pushes forward and the ball beats his outside edge! Good ness.BEATEN! And again! Mehidy is spreading Pat Cummins on toast to enjoy over his drinks, which are being bought out right now.Hmmm, all this talk of toast and biscuits has got me hankering for one myself, so I'll pass you over to Henry Hanson for the next hour.Spin at both end - I LOVE to see it.Green gets off strike straight away and captain Pat is the man in the middle.Get your bingo cards out and start hovering that pen over the square that says "Captain Pat saves Australia with his bat"Cummins gets off strike and clips a single to square leg.Green defends into the off side.Left arm spinner, the ball is turning away from the right handed bats but the rough is a bit too far outside the off stump to be a threat, as one turns harmlessly away outside off.Green defends the last.That is a brilliant ball!A bit quicker from Mehidy, skidding on and beating the outside edge, clipping the top of off stump.That's the second time he's been beaten by a ball that's done a bit to castle his off stump.That was held to skid on, Mehidy ensuring the ball didn't hit the seam and would just slide. Wonderful bowling.Mehidy is off celebrating - that's a massive moment in this match, and doesn't he know it!Amazing.Green drops back into his crease and pushes into the off side for a quick single.Webster gets a stride in to defend outside off.This is a fascinating battle, this. Can Mehidy tease out Webster? The guile of this canny offy is really testing the Aussie all rounder.Solid defence from Webster and Mehidy just keeps probing that off stump area.Green pushes into the ground to deep backward point for a single.Webster looks to work the ball to the leg side, where there is a fielder at square leg, so no run. Taskin is looking to angle the ball into the stumps from wide on the crease.Webster pushes into the off side. No run.He now pushes into the off side and they will take a single pretty comfortably. It was a no ball too.Solid defence from Green as Taskin continues to push the ball down on that off stump line. Again, it's been patient.Green clips off his pads for a single to farm the strike.Mehidy Miraz will look to work that rough outside off.Green defends the first.Then he does well to fend the ball away with a little bit of extra bounce in it away to deep point for a single.INSIDE EDGE! Webster completely misjudges that and the turn carries the ball onto the inside edge.BEATEN! Oh my! Webster sweeps, edges, then the ball deflects off the back leg too making a catch nigh on impossible for Das behind the stumps.Webster back, defending a ball that turns into him.And now he's forward doing the same, Mehidy has found his pace to get the turn and bite out of that rough. Clever bowling.Hasan was remarkably good and unlucky in his four over spell.He comes in and pitches outside off and Webster defends.There is still that floating second/third slip, as well as a gully, that I think should be a first slip.Webster fends to gully, who gathers and picks up to shape to throw straight away in one movement, keeping that pressure up.Webster defends.Webster pushes to cover point and there's no run.More solid defence from Webster, who is looking to take his time to get moving here. He's a great player to have come in at number seven.FOUR! That's a great way to get off the mark, a sumptuous drive through the covers all the way to the boundary. Well done Webster, that's so well played.Green pushes to cover, who takes it on the bounce.Green defends on off stump.The surface kicked up there a little, the slip and bat pad are in play with the ball starting to move and bite off the deck.Green is back and clips to midwicket and they run a couple sharply. Those runs are important now, any run is important when you trail. Australia are still 45 behind.Solid defence from Green to end another very good over from Mehidy.Green pushes into the off side, he may want that single to get to his half ton but he is turned back, correctly.Green fends to point and looks for a run there too but there's no run.Green pushes to point again, and again there is no run.There is so much chat out there at the moment and there is so much pressure building on the Aussie pair.CLOSE! Oh my goodness that ball has comes back a long way and missed the off stump by a fraction. There's no bounce there either, because of the off cut that Hasan put on it.CLOSE! Green cuts down on the ball and it bounces over the stumps! A charmed life being lived by Green!FIFTY FOR GREEN!He drives through the legs of Hasan and he is going to run three down to long off - a very good innings from Cameron Green. Oh how Australia needed that. How he needed that, his first half ton in his last 13 innings.It's his eighth Test fifty, and it's come off 109 balls.Solid defence from Carey.EDGED! FOUR! Oh goodness! Hasan is causing all sorts of problems here, and the luck is going with Australia. Carey edges hard past second slip.Carey is really, really having to focus here, defending solidly into the offside as Hasan comes in once more. Bangladesh need to keep their cool as much as Carey does though, they can't let those near misses rattle them.Carey clips to mid on for no run.And now he fends to mid off for no run to end another very, very good over.
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