Bangladesh confident spinners can claim Australian Test scalp At full stretch: Azhar Ali reaches for a shot from Mitchell Marsh on the fifth day of the second Test. Australia's travails against spin in the Middle East have given Test minnows Bangladesh confidence they can claim a major scalp when the two sides clash next year. While national coach Darren Lehmann said it was back to the drawing board for Australia playing in Asia, Bangladesh believe they have the weapons to prey on the Australian batsmen when they host a two-Test series on their dustbowls in October. The Bangladeshis' best bowler is world-class left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan, and they have recently unveiled a teenage leggie, Jubair Hossain, and left-arm finger-spinner Taijul Islam, who last week claimed nine wickets to spin his team to victory over Zimbabwe. Troubled: Steve Smith heads to the shed for lunch on day five. They may only be familiar names to keen observers of world cricket, but not much was known either about Pakistan duo Zulfiqar Babar and Yasir Shah before they wreaked havoc on Australia's batsmen. Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha, a former Sri Lankan international who left NSW's coaching team to take the job in June, said his spinners "will cause trouble to the Australian batsmen in these conditions." "It's when you're not exposed to the conditions often it's hard to make adjustments that quickly, it's all about the mindset," said Hathurusingha, who was highly regarded by the NSW squad for his tactical nous. When you play in Australia, on the fast bouncy wickets, the players know their roadmap that if they get through 20 balls and know what will happen, they're more calm. But when you come to spin because you're not used to it, your mental game plan and processes are a little bit disturbed. You can panic when things aren't going right for you. You bring change in a hurry. When you panic and go away from your trusted game? That's what I see happening to the guys in the UAE. Bangladesh has won just five of 86 Tests, but the only side they have beaten other than Zimbabwe was a second-string West Indies team in 2009 decimated by a strike over a contractual dispute. With Australia having won just one of 15 Tests since Jason Gillespie's famous double ton in 2006, next year's series could be Bangladesh's best chance to beat a frontline Test nation. If the Bangladesh players stand up and do well against Australian bowlers I think it will be a very good contest. The bowlers will cause trouble to the Australian batsmen in these conditions, it's all about the way the batsmen go," Hathurusingha said. Australia lost to Zimbabwe in a one-dayer played on a spin-friendly wicket in August, which shows how vulnerable they are when conditions do not suit. Lehmann said the poor showing against Pakistan could not be seen as a mere blip on the radar after successes against England and South Africa. "Oh no, you've got to take stock of where you are," Lehmann said. While David Warner and Steve Smith have improved their play against spin since the 4-0 thrashing in India last year, Lehmann said the team needed to improve its batting against spin. Our top order batting, basically the top six, haven't made enough runs. That's as simple as it gets for us," Lehmann said. It would have been nice to win one of the tosses and see how they would have performed early on in the game and see the shoe on the other foot if you like. We certainly haven't produced the goods in this series. They haven't allowed us, either. They've played very well. I don't think we've won a session in this Test match and maybe only dare I say two in the last Test match. So we've been totally outplayed. We've got to learn and get better.