Acting captain Matthew Wade made his top score of the tournament with 22.Credit:AP
The latest result followed a4-1 T20 series loss to the West Indies and,with a second string batting line-up,proved wholly inadequate preparation for the T20 World Cup in the UAE from mid-October.
With the exception of Mitchell Marsh,the batsmen who benefited most were those who stayed at home.
The record will forever show the superiority of Bangladesh in their conditions and highlighted once again Australia’s inadequacy against the turning ball.
But the prize is the T20 World Cup,the only trophy Australia has never won,and the conditions were so foreign,a week-long training camp in Dubai would have been of more value.
However,Australia has such a poor reputation internationally for being an elitist and timid tourist,especially after pulling out of the South African tour at short notice earlier this year,that reputational damage is front and centre with Cricket Australia.
Veteran journeyman Dan Christian estimates that in Sharjah 220 was a winning score,while in Dubai and Abu Dhabi they were 170 to 180.
This was the lowest-scoring T20 series of three matches or more in history and the only one where the scoring rate was below six an over. The highest score in the tournament was Bangladesh’s 7/131 and for Australia 7/121.