{"id":78114,"date":"2026-08-23T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78114\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:27:08","slug":"live-updates-australia-vs-bangladesh-second-test-day-two-from-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78114\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Australia vs Bangladesh, second Test, day two from Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cameron Green and Marnus Labuschagne both came into the two-Test series against Bangladesh under pressure — but only the rejuvenated allrounder has enhanced his status in the Australian team.<\/p>\n

Green, thanks to a sublime knock of 104 in Darwin and a half-century in tough conditions in Mackay, will be on the plane to South Africa for October’s three-Test series after two compelling knocks at No.5.<\/p>\n

Yet No.3 Labuschagne’s struggle to find form and runs endures.<\/p>\n

After his first innings knock of four in the second Test against Bangladesh in Mackay, the 32-year-old Labuschagne now has gone 23 Tests and 43 innings at an average of 24.69 without a century, in a format where he had scored 11 tons in his first 42 Tests.<\/p>\n

Of concern is the manner of his dismissals against Bangladesh. An indecisive nudge to slip for one in the first Test in Darwin was followed by missing a straight delivery after scoring 31 in the second innings.<\/p>\n

In Mackay, in the first innings of the second Test, Labuschagne missed a Shoriful Islam delivery on leg stump and the ball deflected off his thigh pad and onto the wickets after making just four.<\/p>\n

Coach Andrew McDonald said after the Darwin Test that Labuschagne needed “big runs”.<\/p>\n

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Captain Pat Cummins and No.3 batter Steve Smith have come to Labuschagne’s defence in the past two days.<\/p>\n

“I actually think he is batting really well at the moment,” Smith told the host broadcaster before play on day one of the Mackay Test.<\/p>\n

Batters in the Sheffield Shield have hardly made a compelling case to replace him, but Labuschagne’s issue has been that he is not getting in the contest in Test\u00a0cricket\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n

Cummins said after bowling to Labuschagne in the nets and in match simulation situations that he was “as sharp he has been for a long time”.<\/p>\n

“It looks he is putting pressure back on the bowler and making it really difficult to get him out,” Cummins said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Getty Images) AAP Cameron Green and Marnus Labuschagne both came into the two-Test series against Bangladesh under pressure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93658,7910,22,23,118455,118457,21,8827,118459,3824,1228,3945,21184,118460,118462,88,118461,118456,33960,118458],"class_list":["post-78114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-day-two","tag-abc-sport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-vs-bangladesh","tag-australia-vs-bangladesh-live-blog","tag-austrlia","tag-bangladesh","tag-cam-green","tag-cricket","tag-josh-hazlewood","tag-live-updates","tag-mackay","tag-mitchell-starc","tag-nathan-lyon","tag-pat-cummins","tag-shoriful-islam","tag-steve-smith","tag-test","tag-test-cricket-live-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}