DHAKA — Australia is feeling the heat just days before its first Test against Bangladesh for more than a decade, with batsman Glenn Maxwell revealing Wednesday he suffered heatstroke during training.

“I caught a bit of heatstroke on the first day, which wasn’t a good start,” Maxwell told reporters in Dhaka.

“I think just doing some running outside, then going inside to do some fitness tests, and then going back outside didn’t help too much.

“The body shut down a little bit but I was fine after the ice bath and plenty of fluids.”

Australia taem, which arrived last Friday, limited itself to light training Wednesday after its two-day warm-up match on the outskirts of Dhaka was cancelled due to flooding.

But 28-year-old Maxwell said conditions were still a little difficult for the newly-arrived squad.

“Yesterday was obviously pretty tough with the overnight and morning rain, all the moisture coming out of the ground and making sweaty work for us,” he said.

The tourists trained in Darwin, in Australia’s tropical north, before their Bangladesh tour to prepare for the hot and humid monsoon weather.

“The wickets here are similar to what we faced in Darwin, where it was perfect,” Maxwell said.

“I think the guys are more than well equipped to handle whatever comes their way in the first Test.”

Bangladesh has not played a Test against Australia since Ricky Ponting’s team visited the country in 2006, six years after the hosts were granted Test status.

Australia was due to play two Tests in Bangladesh in October 2015 but the tour was cancelled over security fears.

The first Test starts Sunday, with the second in Chittagong from Sept. 4-8.

Bangladesh hires India’s

Joshi as spin bowling coach

Former India left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi has been appointed Bangladesh’s spin bowling coach on a short-term deal.

Joshi, who took 110 wickets for India in 15 tests and 69 one-day internationals from 1996-2001, had already began working with the bowlers, the Bangladesh cricket Board told local media.

The BCB had hoped to appoint former Australia leg-spinner Stuart MacGill but talks failed to produce a deal.

India court raps BCCI

for inaction on reforms

India’s highest court Wednesday accused top officials from the country’s cricket board of failing to clean up the scandal-ridden body, more than six months after they pledged to enforce reforms.

The Supreme Court ordered that the acting president, secretary and treasurer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appear before a panel of judges on Sept. 19 to explain their inaction.

“You haven’t implemented anything despite our orders. Nothing has been complied (with) and the BCCI says it’s helpless,” the panel of three judges, headed by Justice Dipak Misra, said in its order.

The board, a powerful and wealthy institution in cricket-mad India, was placed under court administration in January after a string of high-profile scandals brought its management into disrepute.

A panel appointed to reform its opaque administration was given an undertaking from the acting president, secretary and treasurer that they would turn things around.

But the court-appointed Committee of Administrators last week said the trio should be removed for failing to implement any of their promised reforms.

The board has been accused over its management of the Indian Premier League, a glitzy Twenty20 competition that netted almost $380 million in revenue in 2016.

The sixth season of the lucrative franchise was marred in 2013 by a match-fixing scandal when the son-in-law of then-board president Narayanaswami Srinivasan was accused of gambling on matches. — Agencies