Australia won the opening match of their T20I series in Bangladesh and a repeat performance at Chattogram on Friday would see the Baggy Green secure a morale-boosting series victory with a match to spare.
Tricky batting conditions saw the hosts dismissed for 131 with an over to spare as the Aussie spinners combined for nine wickets, including 3-17 for left-armer Joel Davies on a highly impressive international debut.
Cooper Connolly top-scored with 47 as the tourists reached 6-133 with 10 balls to spare, with the all-rounder backing up his superb innings of 149 in the final ODI against the Tigers.
Bangladesh v Australia Tips Summary
Best Bet - Tim David - Most Match Sixes @ 6.00
Alternative Bet - Adam Zampa - Top Australia Bowler @ 4.00
Bet Builder - Australia Most Sixes, Runs at fall of 1st wicket - Under 21.5 & Cooper Connolly - Top Australia Batter @ 11.00
Bangladesh v Australia Prediction
Best Bet: Tim David - Most match sixes @ 6.00
Tim David has made his name as a big hitter to match the very best in international cricket and in 61 T20I innings to date he has cleared the boundary no fewer than 103 times.
The right-hand powerhouse has smashed 27 sixes across his last 12 knocks in the 20-over international arena and is backed to lead the way in most sixes in the second game of the series at the Bir Shreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Cricket Stadium on Friday.
David was edged out by team-mate Connolly on Wednesday, with the latter striking three sixes to two, but it is the former who is taken here to be the batter to beat in what could be a series clincher for the Baggy Green.
Alternative Bet: Adam Zampa - Top Australia Bowler @ 4.00
Leg-spinner Adam Zampa took 3-18 in the first T20I against the Tigers to bring up the landmark of 150 wickets in the 20-over international game, with his tally for Australia almost twice that of any other bowler.
Next on the list are Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, both on 79, so it is clear that Zampa has been a hugely important player for the Baggy Green in this format, showing his class on Wednesday by not conceding even a single boundary.
He has taken 18 wickets in eight T20I outings against Bangladesh, including career-best figures of 5-19 against the Tigers at the 2021 T20 World Cup.
Bangladesh v Australia Bet Builder Tip
Australia Most Sixes
Runs at fall of 1st wicket - Under 21.5
Cooper Connolly - Top Australia Batter
Pays 11.00
Having backed David to lead the way for sixes hit by an individual batter, it makes sense to kick off this Bet Builder by taking Australia to hit the most team sixes.
They edged their hosts 5-4 on the six count in the opening match of this series and will want to repeat the trick in the second T20I, which will surely see more runs scored than the first.
Next take the 1st wicket in the match to fall with fewer than 21 runs on the board, with the recent ODI series having been notable for the loss of very early wickets by both sides.
The first T20I saw the Tigers put on an opening partnership of 26, while Australia lost their first wicket at 13, so fewer than 21 this time around looks like a reasonable option.
Finally add in Connolly to be top team batter, which was the case in both the final match of the one-day international series and the opener in this T20I series.
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Key Match Stats
Bangladesh have played nine of their last 10 T20Is at Chattogram, winning just three
The Tigers have lost six of their last nine T20 internationals
Australia have won eight of the 12 T20Is they have played against Bangladesh
Tim David has hit 103 sixes in 61 T20 international innings
Adam Zampa's three wickets in the series opener took him to 150 in T20I cricket
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