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Last Updated: Thursday, 20 April 2006, 06:26 GMT 07:26 UK
Australia cruise to easy victory
Second Test, Chittagong: Bangladesh 197 & 304 lost to Australia 581-4 dec by an innings and 80 runs

(From left) Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Mike Hussey congratulate Stuart MacGill (second right) after he dismissed Bangladesh's Abdur Razzak
MacGill (second right) collected seven wickets in the match
Australia thrashed Bangladesh by an innings and 80 runs in the second Test to complete a 2-0 series whitewash in Chittagong on Thursday.

Leg-spinners Shane Warne (5-113) and Stuart MacGill (4-95) took six wickets between them on the final morning to dismiss the hosts for 304.

Bangladesh resumed on 195-4 but only Mohammad Rafique offered much resistance with a 53-ball 65.

The hosts added only 109 runs in 26.2 overs on the final day.

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Jason Gillespie

After a match that will be best remembered for night-watchman Jason Gillespie's double century, Australia won the series 2-0.

Gillespie was named man of the match and man of the series.

First Test centurion opener Shahriar Nafees scored 79 before he was caught behind off Warne, who also removed hard hitter Mashrafe bin Mortaza for one.

Rafique delighted local spectators with his fourth Test fifty, hitting six sixes and two fours, including three maximums off four deliveries in one Warne over.

Rafique was the last man out when he skewed one off the inside edge to Warne at wide mid-on to give MacGill his seventh wicket of the match.

Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar put the blame with his batsmen after the crushing defeat.

The Tigers were bowled out for 197 on day one and Bashar said: "I hoped we'd get big runs from the top order but it didn't happen.

"There are a lot of problems. We did not bat how we should have."

Bashar, dismissed for 49 in the second innings, added: "There is a lot to learn, like believing we can compete with any side, like we did in the first Test."

The sides will next play a three-match one-day international series, starting in Chittagong on Sunday.



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