Is any Australian player safe for the second Test in Mackay?

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/australia/OxG0JfXg/"]Australia[/a]'s nine-wicket loss, completed on Sunday inside four days, was variously described in local media ‌as one of the country's biggest test humiliations following domination by ninth-ranked [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/bangladesh/2of97jms/"]Bangladesh[/a].[/p][p]The ‌second and final test in Mackay, Queensland, starting on Saturday, now carries far more weight than anticipated.[/p][p]Nothing ‌less than a thumping win to level the series will convince fans and ‌a skeptical home media that the Darwin debacle was an aberration rather than a clear sign of a team in inexorable decline.[/p][p]"[b]Let's call this out for the gob-smacking shambles that it was ... Australia’s nine wicket loss ‌to Bangladesh is both the greatest upset in Test ⁠history and the most humbling Test loss ever ‌suffered by an Australian cricket team,[/b]" veteran cricket writer Robert Craddock opined in the Courier Mail ​newspaper.[/p][p]"[b]None of Australia’s 236 Test losses over 150 years quite compare to it.[/b]"[/p][embed guid="d3e881f8-829d-41c5-8614-4986de7ca862" url="https://x.com/7Cricket/status/2088855218750439752" social-type="twitter" /][p]Captain [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/cummins-patrick/nXoaKQUf/"]Pat Cummins[/a] did not seek to downplay Australia's underperformance in the post-match press ​conference, but his remark that they lost the match on day one, when their batters could manage only 198 in the first innings, was wide of the mark.[/p][p]Australia lost ⁠on every day, in every session, ​in every facet.[/p][p]Most of the scrutiny has trained on the faulty parts in Australia's batting machinery.[/p][p]The problems are by no means new but were allowed to fester over the home summer as the team cantered to a 4-1 Ashes win over a lamentable [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/england/UJC5mtAU/"]England[/a].[/p][p]Opener [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/weatherald-jake/dOjJmLji/"]Jake Weatherald[/a] ‌has done little to convince his game can stand up in the test arena and may have one more chance in Mackay, at best.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/labuschagne-marnus/0QSnItBN/"]Marnus Labuschagne[/a], too, will be feeling the heat after two poor dismissals in Darwin.[/p][p]Once a world-beater in Australia's top order, Labuschagne's continuing struggles are pressuring teammates lower down the order.[/p][embed guid="a4b0443c-8e6d-4791-a85e-4bfec1e0d059" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdHkwTo8Lo" social-type="youtube" /][p]Head coach [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mcdonald-andrew/YyfL9ms6/"]Andrew McDonald[/a] and his staff may no longer be able to ignore calls for regeneration despite a paucity of young batters demanding selection with a weight of runs in domestic cricket.[/p][p]Australia's bowling quality has long carried the team but the Bangladesh match offered a glimpse of their ageing attack's mortality.[/p][p]The champion ‌pace trio of Cummins, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hazlewood-josh/zkKrMn0r/"]Josh Hazlewood[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/starc-mitchell/CQX4De2l/"]Mitchell Starc[/a] have over 1,000 test wickets between ​them, but toiled in the Darwin heat as Bangladesh piled on 426 for ‌a 228-run lead.[/p][p]Spinner [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/lyon-nathan/baw6Lrll/"]Nathan Lyon[/a], 39 in November, was comprehensively out-bowled on his home pitch by Bangladesh's part-time off-spinner [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hasan-mehidy/zst1guti/"]Mehidy Hasan Miraz[/a].[/p][p]With pride stung, Australia can be expected to rebound strongly in Mackay. Selectors may be inclined to give the existing squad a chance to make amends and prove Darwin was a one-off.[/p][p]But with a three-test ⁠tour of South Africa, the World Test ⁠champions, looming in October, Australia may ‌have to look beyond short-term redemption and make the tough decisions now.[/p][embed guid="77e231fd-2d6d-4822-933e-96f08ccfe438" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nDrCSuFGaQ" social-type="youtube" /]