The final game of the series would perhaps be the last chance for the fringe Australian players to make a mark ahead of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup later this year. Batting has been extremely difficult on tour with only two batsmen scoring in excess of 100 runs in the four games so far. One of them is Mitchell Marsh, who has been a revelation since being promoted to No.3 in the batting order. Another good performance with the bat would make it difficult for Australian selectors to ignore his name for a spot in the T20 World Cup squad.
Captain Matthew Wade has already hinted that Australia might go with three spinners in the final game, which would probably see Adam Zampa return to the playing XI. Bangladesh too are likely to make changes to their XI, having gone unchanged throughout the series. With the series wrapped up, the Tigers would want to test their bench strength ahead of the mega-event later this year. Australia won their first game of the series in the fourth T20I by three wickets.
On a slow and sluggish Sher-e-Bangla pitch, Bangladesh managed to get only 104/9 in their 20 overs, thanks to some impetus from Afif Hossain and Mahedi Hasan in the second half of the innings. With Zampa rested, Mitchell Swepson made an instant impact playing his first game of the series, returning figures of 3/12 in four overs. As has been the case throughout the series, Australian batters struggled against the Bangladesh spinners and the wily Mustafizur Rahman. Promoted up the order, Daniel Christian's 15-ball 39 proved to be the game-changer for the visitors; 30 of those runs came in one over where he smashed Shakib Al Hasan for five sixes.
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