Tea Bangladesh 286 for 3 (Tanzid 101, Shanto 79*, Mominul 49, Mushfiqur 26*, Starc 1-50) lead Australia 198 (Smith 71, Mahmud 6-55) by 88 runs

Tanzid kept Bangladesh on top in the contest with his 197-ball 101, which contained eight fours and a six. He became Bangladesh’s second Test centurion against Australia – for the first, we have to go all the way back to 2006, when Shahriar Nafees’ scored 138 in Fatullah.

Bangladesh drove home the advantage of a strong first session by dominating most of the play in the post-lunch period too. Tanzid started the second session with a lofted drive off Josh Hazlewood before bringing up Bangladesh’s lead with a glided boundary off Mitchell Starc.

Shanto was not to be left behind, punching Starc through the covers off the back foot before he had the job of chaperoning Tanzid through the nervous 90s. Shanto reached his fifty off the second ball of Nathan Lyon’s over before the drinks break, before Tanzid reached his century with a single down the ground. Curiously, no attempt was made to bring the field up as Tanzid slowed down when in sight of his milestone.

Tanzid, however, lasted just one more over after getting to his century when he holed out to Starc off Lyon at long-off. Starc took a good tumbling catch for Australia’s third wicket. The batter, though, was the toast of Darwin as he walked off to huge applause from the home crowd.

Mushfiqur couldn’t have asked for a better platform to get going, especially when Beau Webster handed him a floaty half-volley for his first boundary. Shanto continued to mix attacking shots with plenty of singles, sweeping Lyon for a well-placed four, before launching him down the ground for a big six.

Bangladesh’s early-morning discipline with the bat set them up when the sun fully came out in Darwin. Tanzid and Mominul continued to leave more than they touched as the Australia fast bowlers tempted and teased them outside the off stump. Mominul’s flick in the second over got Bangladesh their first boundary of the day, but they struck just two more in the next ten overs.

Tanzid survived a second dropped catch shortly afterwards, on 62, when he edged Lyon while attempting a cut; the ball ricocheted off Alex Carey’s gloves on to Steven Smith’s wrist at slip before hitting the floor. Lyon himself had earlier dropped Tanzid before he had opened his account, on the first day.