{"id":1166934,"date":"2026-08-24T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166934\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:37:19","slug":"aus-vs-ban-tests-from-darwin-delight-to-mackay-despair-bangladeshs-reality-check-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166934\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs BAN Tests: From Darwin delight to Mackay despair: Bangladesh&#8217;s reality check against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tackling pace and bounce with the bat is another aspect that has come under the scanner &#8211; ahead of the Australia tour, Bangladesh suffered a big defeat in Zimbabwe. In Mackay, the batters were guilty of repeatedly playing at balls that could have been left alone, offering Australia chances on a spicy wicket. Conditions in Darwin, on the other hand, were a lot closer to home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tackling pace and bounce with the bat is another aspect that has come under the scanner &#8211; ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1166935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[45789,185423,21710,310978,1406,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1166934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-45789","tag-2nd-test","tag-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh-tour-of-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117151468629201055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}