Good morning, and welcome to our Test cricket coverage. Yes, that’s right – cricket in Australia in the middle of August. Don’t you love it?

My name is Danny Russell and I will be with you for day one of this clash between Australia and Bangladesh in Darwin, starting at 10.30am (AEST). Let’s have some fun.

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10.01am

Australia to bat first

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Pat Cummins has won the toss and elected to bat.

Openers Travis Head and jake Weatherald will be first out to the crease at 10.30am (AEST) to face the Bangladesh bowlers.

Australia XI: Jake Weatherald, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Beau Webster, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

9.44am

Green time to shine

By Daniel Brettig

It’s a big day for Cameron Green, as the 27-year-old tries to heed Pat Cummins’ advice about getting out of his own way and letting his talent bloom.

Green has been off-limits to the media since his confrontation with our own Tom Decent at a Sheffield Shield game last summer, but he has spoken to Cricket Australia about the incident and what fuelled it.

“I think it was potentially me at my wit’s end, and the journalist probably at his wit’s end as well,” Green said.

“So it was just completely bad timing from both parts. It had been a long few months, we’d just come off not a great World Cup, and I was just about to go off to India for two-and-a-half months as well, so I knew that was coming up … there was a lot happening at the time.

“It certainly wasn’t a big moment, and probably was a reflection of how I was feeling at the time. Obviously, it’s not something I want to happen ever again, but at the same time, it didn’t really faze me at all.”

Hopefully, Green plays things a little differently should he get a century this week.

9.40am

England lift midnight curfew

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England skipper Joe Root says the midnight curfews in place at the end of the “Bazball” reign have been ditched as he’s called on his players to “be adults” in the new era.

With another blockbuster Ashes series on the horizon in England next summer, Root has launched his second spell as their Test captain with the message that his team need to remember: “You’re playing for England.”

Root’s new reign at the age of 35 starts at Headingley next Wednesday against Pakistan in a three-match series which will be the first since Ben Stokes retired from international cricket and Brendon McCullum lost his job as Test coach in a turbulent spell.

In an interview with former captain Mike Atherton on Sky Sports Cricket Podcast, Root was asked if the player curfew, which was breached by Stokes and quick Gus Atkinson in a post-midnight nightclub incident in June, was still going to be in place.

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Test cricket is back

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Good morning, and welcome to our Test cricket coverage. Yes, that’s right – cricket in Australia in the middle of August. Don’t you love it?

My name is Danny Russell and I will be with you for day one of this clash between Australia and Bangladesh in Darwin, starting at 10.30am (AEST). Let’s have some fun.