Australia finally wins a T20 match

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AUSTRALIA finally had a win at the World T20 and its players could not wait to get on the first plane out of Bangladesh.

After at last registering a victory at what could rank as their worst performance in a global limited overs tournament, several of Australia's players jetted out of Dhaka only hours after a thumping win over hosts Bangladesh.

You probably couldn't blame some of them after a long Ashes and South African summer and with the Indian Premier League kicking off in a fortnight.

Australia's batsmen were keen to get the game against Bangladesh over in quick time and they chased down the host side's 5-153 with 15 balls to spare.

Aaron Finch plays a backfoot drive as wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim watches on. Source: Getty Images

Dave Warner (48 off 35 balls) was at his punishing best and fellow opener Aaron Finch (71 off 45 balls) joined in the run-flurry to ensure Australia coasted to an easy win in the dead-rubber match.

Warner produced his full range of shots, with a switch-hit off spinner Sohag Gazi sailing to the boundary before another attempted switch hit over didn't come up trumps.

And later he blasted consecutive sixes over mid-wicket off local hero and poster boy Shakib Al Hasan, with the monster blows sailing way back in the Dhaka stands.

It made you wonder where this batting blast-off was earlier in the tournament as Australia's batsmen have struggled against spin for the last fortnight and were bowled out for 86 against India.

Australian captain George Bailey has to slide to fields the ball during Bangladesh's innings. Source: Getty Images

Finch did have plenty of luck, smashing a ball into the 'keeper's gloves off Gazi only to have the umpire somehow rule the giant deflection was not out.

But by that stage Australia had the chase well in hand.

Paceman Al-Amin Hossain didn't miss Warner when he bowled the Australian, almost chasing him off the field and giving him a few choice verbals as he celebrated in his face.

Umpires got together after the send-off of Warner and appeared to give the big Bangladesh paceman a dressing down.

Cameron White (18 not out off 15 balls) helped get the Aussies home.

... but his stumps were then rattled by Bangladeshi bowler Al-Amin Hossain. Source: AFP

While Bangladesh got spanked, teenage paceman Taskin Ahmed, 18, playing his first match for his country, looks a promising prospect after hurrying Australia's openers up with plenty of sharp pace and bounce.

The match could hardly have started better for Australia when recalled paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile (2-17) had Bangladesh opener Anamul Haque caught at slip in the second over.

Not long after Coulter-Nile struck again and when other opener Tamim Iqbal sliced a drive straight to mid-off and the home side fell to 2-12.

But some good batting from Shakib Al Hasan (66 off 52 balls), combined with some more shoddy fielding from the Australians, allowed Bangladesh off the hook.

Mushfiqur Rahim belts one ball on his way to making 47 runs off 36 balls. Source: Getty Images

Shakib blasted past 50 with a huge straight six off Glenn Maxwell which only came about as the spinner inexplicably gifted a free-hit by overstepping with a no-ball.

At one stage when Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahim (47 off 36) were in full flight, it looked as if Bangladesh was on target to post a score of 175 plus.

But Australia's death bowlers Mitchell Starc (1-25) and Shane Watson (1-25) contained things well at the end and put a stop on what should have been a much bigger target.

Australia made the decision to go with no frontline spinners, dropping young leggie James Muirhead and again leaving out veteran spinner Brad Hogg.

It meant Hogg, 43, has almost certainly played his last match for Australia in what has been a long and colourful career.

Spin great Shane Warne could not understand the logic of not playing Muirhead on a pitch which was predicted to take turn,

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