Shanto hopes that more regular opportunities against top teams and in difficult conditions can help turn such breakthroughs into sustained progress.

Shanto said the challenge in Mackay exposed areas of Bangladesh's batting that need work.

The Tigers' progress in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025-27 table has also remained intact despite the Mackay defeat.

The bright side for the Bangladesh wicketkeeper is that this is only a two-Test series

Playing a Test in Australia for the first time, Shoriful Islam has already given himself a place in Bangladesh cricket’s record books. But the left-arm pacer’s seven-wicket haul in the second Test in Mackay has also put him in the company of one of the game’s greatest fast bowlers.

After winning the opening Test in Darwin by nine wickets, Bangladesh leave their first tour of Australia in 23 years with the two-match series tied 1-1.

Shoriful, returning after missing the first Test with a hamstring injury, kept the Tigers in the hunt after Mitchell Starc's 6-12 had threatened to turn the match into a one-sided contest.

A total of 18 wickets fell on the opening day in Mackay, the third-highest number of day-one wickets in a Test in Australia since 1975.

Nepal 'A' were reduced to 13 for five after sent in to bat.

The 25-year-old said the conditions remained helpful to fast bowlers, with the wind also playing a role.

Four extraordinary first days in Australian Tests in less than two years.

Shoriful said his maiden five-for was the result of work done in practice.

Australia have won the toss and elected to field first in the second and final Test of the two-match series against Bangladesh at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay on Saturday.

Robinson and Josh Tongue bagged five wickets apiece as Pakistan were dismissed for just 171 in their first innings and the duo, who received good support from Jofra Archer and Gus Atkinson, took three more each second time around.

Australia have made only one change to their XI, with Matt Renshaw coming in for out-of-form opener Jake Weatherald.

The Tigers know a sterner test awaits in Mackay, where conditions are expected to offer more assistance to Australia.

England launched their post-Bazball era with an innings and a 103-run thrashing of Pakistan in the first Test at Headingley on Friday.

England enjoyed a flurry of tailend runs before they were dismissed for 409 by Pakistan on the third day of the first Test at Headingley on Friday for a first-innings lead of 238.

Australian great Mike Hussey could face his own country in the Ashes after saying Friday he was open to joining England as their Test batting coach.

Bangladesh have five pace bowlers available for the Test, but Shanto said the final combination would only be decided after another inspection of the Mackay surface on Saturday morning.