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Quick hits: A Shoriful stunner amid more left-arm carnage in the 29th two-day Test

Mitchell Starc was once again sensational, but another left-arm seamer produced the ball of the day and series on the second and final day in Mackay. (Getty Images) Mitchell Starc delivers once more but it's another left-arm seamer who delivers the ball of the series, as Test cricket is blessed with its 29th two-day match. […]

By deepak · August 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Mitchell Starc was once again sensational, but another left-arm seamer produced the ball of the day and series on the second and final day in Mackay. (Getty Images)

Mitchell Starc delivers once more but it's another left-arm seamer who delivers the ball of the series, as Test cricket is blessed with its 29th two-day match.

Here are the quick hits from day two of the second Test between Australia and Bangladesh.

Cameron Green was felled by a brutal inswinging yorker. (Getty Images: Cricket Australia/Albert Perez)

It wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to determine that Cam Green held the key for Australia at the start of day two.

The towering all-rounder, buoyed by his drought-breaking ton in Darwin, was once again looking precisely the player he had for so long promised to be.

With Green well set on 67 and clattering boundaries to either side of the wicket, it was going to take something special to remove the big man.

And Shoriful Islam, having already ripped through Australia's middle order late on day two, delivered something very, very special.

The left-armer's pinpoint yorker swung in late and dramatically, with Green falling over himself in a futile attempt to keep it out.

The ball thudded into the Australian's big toe on its way past the stumps and, after a brief consultation with DRS, was given out LBW to what was surely the ball of the series.

And that wasn't the end of the story for left-arm seamers on day two …

Mitchell Starc picked up from where he left off in the second innings. (Getty Images: Albert Perez/Cricket Australia)

Shoriful, who was almost inconceivably yanked from the bowling attack after that stunner against Green, ended the innings with figures of 7-48, the best-ever return for a Bangladeshi bowler while playing away from home.

Combine that with the 6-12 Mitchell Starc plundered early on day one, and left-arm seam had returned overall figures of 13-60, while accounting for 13 of the 20 wickets to fall in the match.

And it wasn't long before those numbers were improved even further.

Source: Read the original article on www.abc.net.au