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Aussies to play hard with Bangladesh

July 14, 2003 15:24 IST

Two of Australia's leading cricketers Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee said on Monday the home side would be keen to teach Bangladesh a lesson in the first Test starting on Friday.

The local bookmaker TAB Sportsbet has listed Australia at 33-1 on to win the first match of the two-Test series. A draw is rated an 8-1 chance and a Bangladesh victory in the Northern Territory's capital Darwin is a 40-1 shot.

Bangladesh have failed to record a single victory since attaining Test status in 2000.

Pace man Lee, who has bowled deliveries at more than 150 km an hour, said: "I think the best way they should try learning Test cricket is for us to go out there and try and put on a really good performance against them."

Gilchrist, whose devastating strokemaking has broken the hearts of many international bowling attacks, said the top-ranked Test nation would guard against complacency.

"Hopefully, if we win we'll be able to do it to a level that we are happy with and let Bangladesh know where the standard of being one of the best Test teams in the world is at," he said.


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