BAN vs AUS 2026, BAN vs AUS 2nd T20I Match Report, June 19, 2026

Australia clinched the T20I series with a seven-run victory in the second game of the three-match series in Chattogram. The visitors settled scores with Bangladesh who won the ODI series in Dhaka and it was also Australia’s first T20I series win in the country after they went down by 4-1 in 2021.

Their win was based on Matt Renshaw turning in a star performance with his unbeaten 89. He added 97 off 50 balls for the fourth wicket with Tim David who struck a 26-ball 45, lifting Australia from a tricky position after they lost three wickets in the powerplay, while the skill of Nathan Ellis was on show in the closing stages.

Bangladesh fought back with the ball after David’s big-hitting spree. Nasum Ahmed the pick of the bowlers with 2 for 27. At 130 for 2 in the 13th over, they had a chance to hunt down the target but there was no repeat of the record-breaking chase in their last outing in Chattogram against New Zealand.

Tanzid picks up the pace

Tanzid Hasan gave Bangladesh the powerful start they needed in the chase. He started with two chancy fours off Aaron Hardie in the first over, before he took Spencer Johnson for his first six in the following over. Johnson then bowled a wide down the leg-side that went for four. Saif Hassan followed it up with a four and a six over cover as Johnson went for 22 runs in his first over – his most expensive in T20 cricket. Tanzid struck two more fours before Renshaw, Australia’s best bowler on tour, removed him with a caught-and-bowled in the fourth over.

Johnson then went for two more fours and a six in the fifth over, with Soumya Sarkar getting into the big-hitting groove almost straight away and Bangladesh were 72 for 1 after the powerplay. However, Soumya fell in the seventh over when he couldn’t clear long-on against Adam Zampa, with Hardie taking the simple catch though he didn’t pick up the ball at first.

Saif, Emon show teeth, but Bangladesh can’t bite

Parvez Hossain Emon shrugged off Soumya’s fall with consecutive sixes off Zampa’s next over. Saif, who had been quiet for some time, struck Joel Davies down the ground. Emon targeted the straight boundary, as he dispatched both Davies and Hardie twice in the space of four balls.

But the pair also fell in the space of four balls after adding 53 for the third wicket. Hardie had Emon well take over the shoulder by Mitchell Marsh at cover, after he made 36 off 22 balls, and Saif chased a wide delivery from Davies, giving Marsh his second catch.

Shamim Hossain followed them back to the dugout in the 17th over when he holed out against Ellis at the backward square-leg boundary. Zampa, Ellis and Hardie then closed out Bangladesh’s chase with several dot balls, as they kept the home side from finding the crucial boundaries.

Saif’s catches boost Bangladesh

When Australia batted first, Josh Inglis deposited Nasum for a four and a six in the first over, before falling to the same bowler in his next when he was lbw on the sweep. Nahid Rana, playing just his second T20I, then removed the in-form Cooper Connolly in the next over, thanks to Saif’s splendid catch, diving full length to his left at slip.

When Mustafizur Rahman removed Marsh for 20, another good catch from Saif as he ran back from midwicket, Bangladesh had established a strong first powerplay with Australia 44 for 3.

Renshaw, David go big

Seven balls is all the Renshaw-David partnership took to settle down. David launched Rana for his first six with a disdainful pull shot, before he went after Abdul Gaffar Saqlain in the tenth over. David flicked Saqlain for six, before pasting him over long-on, and then hammering him past point in a 19-run over.

Renshaw, meanwhile, took legspinner Rishad Hossain to the cleaners in the 13th over, hitting three sixes in a row. He went straight first, through midwicket and then went high over long-on to reach his second fifty in T20Is from 29 balls. Renshaw survived a caught and bowled chance on 55 in the next over, when Rana couldn’t hold onto a punched drive.

David then picked up Rana for his fourth six and he looked on his way to taking Australia beyond 200. He started Saqlain’s next over with a boundary, but the rookie allrounder managed to remove the giant when David picked out at deep point. Bangladesh did well to stem the scoring until the final over which cost 18 as Renshaw and Davies cleared the ropes against Mustafizur.

Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84

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