Their One Day International (ODI) form had also been poor since their historic victory over Pakistan in the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

[2] Earlier in the year, they remained unbeaten (10 matches) in winning the 2003 ODI Cricket World Cup in South Africa.

Led by Ricky Ponting, Australia defeated India in the final, despite losing leg-spiner Shane Warne.

On a slow and low drop-in pitch airlifted from Melbourne a month before the match, Australia won the toss and elected to field.

McGrath and Jason Gillespie surpassed the duo of Keith Miller and Ray Lindwall as Australia's most successful opening-bowling combination.

[10] Bangladesh's shot selection did not impress coach Dav Whatmore who said, "A few players presented their wickets and that's just the area we're trying to improve.

Only Bangladesh's fastest bowler, Mashrafe Mortaza proved threatening, taking three wickets for 74 runs (3/74) in 23 overs.

When asked about becoming only the second batsman to score a hundred against all nine Test-playing nations, Waugh said: If you play long enough you are going to reach milestones and records are going to be passed and I'm sure someone down the track will beat those.

Despite losing Javed Omar, leg before wicket to McGrath for five, opening batsman Hannan Sarkar and their leading International run-scorer, Habibul Bashar took the score to 89.

Australian leg spinner Stuart MacGill took 5/65—his seventh Test five-wicket haul—as Australia won by an innings and 132 runs.

Along with being named man of the match, Waugh overtook West Indian Clive Lloyd as the most successful captain in Test history, enjoying his 37th victory.

Rain had left question marks about the quality of the pitch, which looked green and enticing for the Australian fast bowlers."

On a surface which "played much better than expected," and was a "much faster pitch than that in Darwin," Sarkar scored 76, hitting nine boundaries in the process.

Omar (26), Bashar (46), Sanwar Hossain (46) and Khaled Mashud (44) all got starts, but could not continue their good work as Bangladesh were eventually bowled out for 295 early on the second morning.

[15] MacGill took another five-wicket haul as the rest of the bowlers apart from Gillespie had limited success, with Waugh bowling himself for five overs in search of a breakthrough.

Most people were talking about the pace battery of the Australian team but the person who won man of the series and got the most wickets was the spinner [Stuart MacGill].

Because of Bangladesh's meagre batting performance, the Australian innings began before lunch and opener Adam Gilchrist scored a typically quick-fire 18 before he was caught behind from Mortaza.

Damien Martyn's stay at the crease was cut short, in his first International match since breaking his finger in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he faced just one ball before Australia won by eight wickets with more than 27 overs to spare.

Martyn joined Bevan at the crease and quickly put the bowlers on the back foot with aggressive batting.

[22][23][24] The series finished in Darwin, with Australian skipper Ricky Ponting winning the toss and electing to bat.

Both Bashar (2) and Mohammad Ashraful (4) were dismissed charging Bichel and Harvey respectively, before Kapali compiled a determined 49 in a 66 run sixth-wicket partnership with Hossain.