2017 ICC Champions Trophy: Twitter Reacts After Mitchell Starc's Four-Fer Deny Bangladesh Huge Total 1

Australia wrapped up an inspired Bangladesh unit for a paltry 182 in the 5th match of the Champions Trophy 2017. The rising Asian team displayed a very poor batting performance and surrendered meekly to Australia.

The decision to bat first by skipper Mashrafe Mortaza seemed great at first considering the batting friendly conditions. However, it quickly turned into a mistake, as the Australian bowler reigned supreme over them.

Barring Tamim Iqbal, no Bangladeshi could manage a decent score. Nine out of the XI ended up with single digits scores to their name while only Shakib Al Hasan and Mehedi Hasan Miraz could manage double-digit contributions.

It was only Tamim who looked at ease, as other around him kept falling prey to the opposition. After coming out to take the strike, he stayed at the crease and rallied the Bangladeshi innings till the 42nd over before departing just five runs short of consecutive centuries. His appreciable effort, however, now can likely go in vain, as the side has nothing special on the scoreboard to defend.

For Australia, the wicket taking proceedings was begun by Josh Hazlewood who drew the first blood with the wicket of Soumya Sarkar, the opener. The others joined in soon. Pat Cummins removed Imrul Kayes while Moises Henriques chipped in with the wicket of Mushfiqur Rahim.

Shakib Al Hasan (29 from 48 balls) tried hanging in the middle with Iqbal for a little while. At one point, it appeared the duo would lead the path to recovery. However, that could not happen, as Shakib threw away his wicket to part-time spinner Travis Head.

Leg spinner Adam Zampa did further damage with two quick wickets. He snapped both Sabbir Rahman and Mahmudullah Riyad in the space of just four deliveries to rock the ship entirely. Mitchell Starc did the polishing work with three clean bowled dismissals.

In the 43rd over, the left-arm fast bowler put himself in a position of taking a hat-trick after removing Mashrafe Mortaza and Rubel Hossain off consecutive deliveries. He was denied the special feat by Mustafizur Rahman. However, Starc made a return in the following over to get Rahman clean bowled eventually and wrap off the innings.

Twitter was obviously buzzing with tweets praising the bowling effort. Here are some of the best ones.

https://twitter.com/NickSuppree/status/871744852840529920

https://twitter.com/William_Botha32/status/871744630227968000

https://twitter.com/Sh75official/status/871744412602085377

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