AdvertisementSportTest cricket Opinion Australia will play a Test cricket series against Bangladesh in the footy season. Since Bangladesh’s admittance to Test cricket in 2000, Australia’s role in their inclusion has been pathetic, shameful and grossly hypocritical. The load of incorporating this huge country into the Test cricket world has fallen on New Zealand, Pakistan, the West Indies, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, who have accounted for 80 per cent of Bangladesh’s Test cricket participation. In India’s first half-century in Test cricket, Australia played them in nine series; England played them in 18. As one past Australian Cricket Board chairman said, we strongly support new Test cricket nations, just not in the playing sense.