DARWIN, Australia (AP) — Tanzid Hasan scored an unbeaten 74 and shared partnerships of 102 with Mominul Haque (49) and 43 with skipper Najmul Hossain Shanton (28) to guide Bangladesh to 181-2 at lunch on Day 2 of the series-opening cricket test against Australia.
Bangladesh resumed Friday at 96-1, 102 behind on the first innings after dismissing Australia for 198 in 53 overs, and added 85 runs in the morning session for the loss of just one wicket against Australia's experienced attack.
Tanzid’s 144-ball innings contained six boundaries and a six, and he raced to his maiden test half-century in just his second match in cricket's longest format.
Shanto faced 40 balls for his unbeaten 28, including three boundaries, after joining Tanzid with the total at 138-2.
Mominul faced 95 balls and hit eight boundaries and was potentially one shot from his 29th test half century when he slashed at a delivery from Josh Hazlewood and was caught behind, ending his century stand with Tanzid.
The Bangladesh bowlers overshadowed the reunion of Australia’s so-called Big Four — pacemen Pat Cummins,Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc and veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon — on Day 1, with Hasan Mahmud taking a career-best 6-55 in his country's first test match on Australian soil since 2003.
The Bangladesh batters have followed suit, frustrating Australia's bowlers in the warm, tropical conditions of far north Australia.
The two-test “Top End” series starts a heavy 12-month schedule for the Australians that will feature 20 test matches, including tours to South Africa, India and England.
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Josh Hazlewood of Australia, right, celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Mominul Haque of Bangladesh during play on day two of the first cricket test in Darwin, Australia, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, (James Ross/AAPImage via AP)
Mominul Haque of Bangladesh bats during play on day two of the first cricket test against Australia in Darwin, Australia, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, (James Ross/AAPImage via AP)
Bangladesh's Tanzid Hasan bats against Australia during their cricket test match in Darwin, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)
TOKYO (AP) — Record-breaking rainfall that pounded cities east of Tokyo overnight flooded roads and dozens of homes, stranded thousands of people, caused power outages and left at least four people dead and one missing.
The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded its most severe warning for heavy rain in more than a dozen municipalities in Chiba prefecture as rain subsided Friday morning but forecast more rain later in the day.
Photos and television footage showed widespread damage after daylight, with homes, cars and parts of railway tracks flooded with muddy water.
The Ground Self-Defense Force said it dispatched buses to pick up about 4,000 stranded people who stayed overnight at the Soga train station, a local route that also serves Tokyo Disney. The theme park did not report any damage.
Thousands more people were stuck overnight at the Narita airport serving the Tokyo region, with trains out of the area stopped. Services partially resumed Friday morning with delays, while flights in and out of Narita were operating normally Friday, with many people returning home at the end of Japan's Bon Buddhist holiday week. Hundreds of people took shelter overnight at the Chiba prefectural government building.
The prefecture said four people were found dead and another person was missing. The victims included a man found floating on a flooded road in Ichikawa city and a woman who had been stuck in a flooded car in Sakura city. Another person pulled from a flooded car in Kashiwa city was presumed dead.
More than 80 homes were flooded in the prefecture and nearly 230,000 residents across the prefecture were advised to take shelter, Chiba officials said.
The torrential rain and flooding also knocked out power to about 23,000 homes Friday morning, down from 68,000 earlier, according to the TEPCO Power Grid.
Record-breaking rainfall of 11.5 centimeters (4.5 inches) fell in just one hour in Chiba City and 9.7 centimeters (3.8 inches) fell in one hour in Sakura, which was also a record. JMA forecast official Takuya Hosomi told a televised emergency news conference that unprecedented levels of rainfall were recorded.
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Cars make their way through flooded road after heavy rain in Oamishirasato, Chiba prefecture, Japan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP)
Torrential rain floods a road, causing a car to stall, in Ichikawa, Chiba prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Kyodo News via AP)
This aerial photo shows submerged cars after heavy rain in Oamishirasato, Chiba prefecture, Japan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP)
Cars make their way through flooded road after heavy rain in Oamishirasato, Chiba prefecture, Japan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP)
Record-breaking torrential rain floods a road, causing a car to stall, in Ichikawa, Chiba prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)
