Daniel is an Age sports reporter.
Darren Lehmann has backed Usman Khawaja to play the first Ashes Test, but the Australian coach was considerably more equivocal when talking about the spots of Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade and the chance four fast bowlers could be unleashed to take on England in Brisbane.
Having gone 11 years without playing a Test against Bangladesh, Australia travelled to the subcontinent in the wake of the protracted pay dispute. Upset by the hosts in Dhaka, the tourists managed to secure a drawn series by winning the second Test in Chittagong. Daniel Cherny rates each of Australia's players out of 10 for their contributions during the series.
Australian captain Steve Smith has identified his team's tendency towards collapsing as a key area that must be addressed as they ahead to the upcoming Ashes series, while also suggesting that the issue was almost entirely a mental one.
Nathan Lyon claimed the best match figures of his career and broke a 130 year-old Australian record as he spun the tourists to a series-levelling victory on day four at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.
Footage has emerged of Test cricket's top-ranked all-rounder appearing to rub the new ball into the dirt late on day three of the second Test.
The line between what is and isn't acceptable behaviour on a cricket field is again in question after Bangladesh's Nasir Hossain gave a cheeky send-off to Australia's Pat Cummins.
Matthew Wade has lost another battle with the decision review system.
Australian coach Darren Lehmann has lauded the "gutsy" Peter Handscomb after the Victorian overcame heat exhaustion to help steer the tourists to a strong position at stumps on day two.
The Australian cricket team has been shaken by an incident following play on day one in Chittagong in which a projectile was thrown at the team's bus as it returned from the Australian contingent's hotel.
Nathan Lyon is nearing veteran status in the Australian team but he'd never had a harder day in the field than the one he encountered on Monday at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.
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