Cooper Connolly scores stunning century as Australia grab thrilling ODI win over Bangladesh

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/bangladesh/2of97jms/"]Bangladesh[/a] had already clinched the series by winning the first two matches, but Cooper's innings overshadowed a career-best 6-48 by left-arm pace bowler Shoriful Islam.[/p][p]Set 275 to win, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/australia/OxG0JfXg/"]Australia[/a] scraped home with three balls to spare when Adam Zampa hit a cover drive to the boundary off Taskin Ahmed.[/p][p]Bangladesh earlier reached 274-5 after winning the toss, with Towhid Hridoy leading the way with a composed innings of 83 off 88 balls.[/p][p]Australia started their run chase strongly, racing to 40 before losing captain Josh Inglis to Shoriful in the fifth over.[/p][p]Shoriful then bowled Matt Renshaw for a duck two balls later to have Australia at 40-2.[/p][p]Australia were then wobbling at 70-3 when Alex Carey fell for eight to a stunning catch by Soumya Sarkar at short cover off Taskin.[/p][embed guid="b78a4159-0712-4cec-9d93-60b80f753026" url="https://x.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/2066154767672639828" social-type="twitter" /][p]Connolly refused to buckle, the 25-year-old opener sharing a 64-run stand with Marnus Labuschagne (29) and then similarly valuable partnerships with Cameron Green and Oliver Peake.[/p][p]Shoriful removed Peake and Xavier Bartlett with successive deliveries, but Ben Dwarshuis denied him the hat-trick.[/p][p]Dwarshuis's dismissal soon after left Australia needing five runs from 15 balls with two wickets in hand.[/p][p]Tanzid Hasan then dropped a straightforward chance at gully off Zampa that eemed to deflate Bangladesh.[/p][p]Connolly finally fell to Mustafizur after scoring his first ODI century, an innings studded with 13 fours and six sixes.[/p][p]That left Australia four runs short with nine balls remaining, with Zampa and tail-ender Riley Meredith at the crease.[/p][p]Zampa then found the cover boundary on the third ball of the final over from Taskin.[/p][p]In Bangladesh's innings, Litton Das (58) and Mosaddek Hossain (56) made unbeaten half-centuries to provide support for Hridoy, who scored his 13th ODI half-century.[/p][p]Litton retired hurt on 48 with a muscle injury but returned to bring up his first ODI fifty at Mirpur.[/p][p]Bartlett and Renshaw picked up two wickets apiece for Australia.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/australia-OxG0JfXg/bangladesh-2of97jms/?mid=rgQB0Mdt"]Check out the scorecard here[/a][/b][/p]