Australia v Bangladesh live scores: Hosts on the brink of embarrassing defeat in Darwin

Having been tied down early, Australia’s No.7 Beau Webster has got away with a sublime cover drive which raced to the boundary.

The all-rounder has been tasked with plenty of rebuild jobs in his international career, but this may be his biggest yet.

AUS 5-187

A composed punch down the ground which did not quite go to the boundary was enough to take Cam Green to a half-century, his first at Test level in more than a year.

The WA all-rounder might have already eased any immediate pressure on his place - and he will need to go much bigger if his side are to avoid an embarrassing defeat.

AUS 5-181

The first wicket of the morning for Bangladesh!

A beautiful delivery from Mehidy Hasan Miraz which drifted in from around the wicket and spun away drew an edge from Alex Carey pouched by wicketkeeper Litton Das.

Australia have slipped further into the mire here.

AUS 5-178

Hasan Mahmud is seriously troubling Alex Carey.

The Bangladesh seamer drew another edge from the Australian wicketkeeper-batter, but this one went in the gap between the slips cordon and the gully.

Carey is on to 30 not out, while Cam Green (48 not out) is closing in on a half-century.

AUS 4-177

Hasan Mahmud has not found long to find his radar.

The impressive Bangladesh seamer drew an edge from Alex Carey which would have went low to first slip - but there is only one floating fielder in place in the cordon, and wicketkeeper Litton Das could not get his hand on the chance.

AUS 4-171

Taijul Islam’s first over may have just been to swing around their off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz.

After making a fine 65 with the bat, the all-rounder gave away only 20 runs from the 13 overs he sent down yesterday, and took a fine caught and bowled to send Steve Smith on his way.

AUS 4-166

Somewhat surprisingly, Bangladesh have opened up with left-arm spinner Taijul Islam, who knocked over Marnus Labuschagne yesterday but was not able to extract much spin from the surface in Darwin.

Cam Green and Alex Carey have both got away comfortably.

AUS 4-165

Just about the sole positive to come out of this game has been the return of Josh Hazlewood.

The metronomic seamer, who missed last summer’s Ashes due to injury, claimed a six-wicket haul to become just the ninth Australian to have claimed 300 victims at Test level.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh are on the verge of what would unquestionably be the most famous victory in their history.

Their unheralded bowling attack has caused Australia all sorts of trouble - and seamer Hasan Mahmud, who already has eight wickets for the game, has been central to that.

Despite the dire situation, Channel Seven experts Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden are expecting big things from Australia’s batters today.

Hayden called the surface at Darwin’s TIO Stadium a “very, very good wicket” with “lots of runs” left in it, and Ponting said the remaining players would have “no excuses”.