Explainer: What happened to Bangladesh 23 years ago, which made Australia's victory so special, very few people know this.

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Explainer on Bangladesh Historic Win In Australia: 16 August is always going to be a memorable day for Bangladesh cricket team. Today Bangladesh has tasted the victory for which it waited a long time. Under the captaincy of Nazmul Hussain Santo, Bangladesh cricket team performed brilliantly and won by 9 wickets. But, do you know that before this victory, when Bangladesh team last visited Australia, it had to face a shameful defeat here. In such a situation, coming here after 23 years and registering a historic victory is really a big thing for Bangladesh cricket and this victory will be recorded in golden letters in the history of Bangladesh cricket.

Bangladesh won its first test match in Australia

Bangladesh cricket team is currently on Australia tour. The first match of the 2-match Test series being played with the hosts was played in Darwin, in which Bangladesh registered a historic victory by defeating Australia by 9 wickets. Talking about this match, Australia got bundled out for 198 in the first innings. Bangladesh scored 426 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 228 runs.

After this Australia was able to score 284 runs in the second innings. For Australia, Cameron Green scored his first Test century at home, scoring 104 runs. Bangladesh needed only 57 runs to win. The pair of Shadman Islam (25) and Mominul Haq (30) led Bangladesh to victory while remaining unbeaten.

Had a shameful defeat last time on tour in 2003

The 2003 tour of Australia was very embarrassing for the Bangladesh cricket team. This was Bangladesh's first Test tour to Australia and the team had to face a 2–0 defeat in the two-match series. The first Test was played in Darwin, where Australia defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 132 runs. Bangladesh was limited to only 97 runs in the first innings and in the second innings also the team could score only 178 runs.

After this, Australia maintained its dominance in the second Test played in Cairns and defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 98 runs. Australia declared the innings at 556/4, while Bangladesh could only score 295 and 163 runs in both the innings. In that tour, Australia made a clean sweep of Bangladesh 5-0 by winning both the Tests as well as all three ODIs. After this defeat, Bangladesh had to wait 23 years to play the next Test series in Australia. However, now in 2026, Bangladesh has left behind the bitter memories of 2003 by defeating Australia by 9 wickets in the Darwin Test and registering a Test win on their soil for the first time.

Big advantage in World Test Championship points table

With this victory against Australia, Bangladesh cricket team has got a big advantage in the points table of the World Test Championship. By the way, Bangladesh team was at number-4 even before the start of this match and is still at the same position, but their PCT has improved. Bangladesh has so far played 5 matches in this edition of the World Test Championship 2025-27, in which it has won 3 matches, lost one match and drawn the match. In this way Bangladesh team has 40 points and PCT has become 66.67.

rank Team match Victory Garland draw score PCT
1 Australia 9 7 2 0 84 77.78%
2 South Africa 4 3 1 0 36 75.00%
3 New Zealand 6 4 1 1 40 72.22%
4 bangladesh 5 3 1 1 40 66.67%
5 India 9 4 4 1 52 48.15%
6 Sri Lanka 4 1 1 2 16 41.67%
7 England 13 4 8 1 38 24.36%
8 Pakistan 6 2 4 0 4 22.22%
9 west indies 12 2 8 2 4 20.83%

Australia's test records

Bangladesh cricket team played its first test match in 2000 and since then till now this team has played 160 matches. In which 28 matches have been won, 113 matches have been lost and 19 matches have ended in a draw.

Asian team to win fastest in Australia

Bangladesh had to play only three Test matches to register its first Test win on Australian soil. In this way, they became the fastest Asian team to achieve this feat. It took seven Tests for Pakistan to win its first Test match in Australia, while India needed 12 Tests. Among the major Asian teams, Sri Lanka has had to wait the longest, having played 15 matches but not winning a single match against the Kangaroos in Australia. Let us tell you, Bangladesh has become only the third team to register victory in Australia. Before this, only the teams of Pakistan and India could do this.

Teams that won matches in Australia in test cricket

Bangladesh cricket team has become only the third Asian team to win a test match on Australian soil. At the same time, overall it is the seventh team to do so. The record of winning the most test matches in Australia is in the name of England only. England has won 58 matches here. At the same time, Team India has defeated Australia in 10 matches at home.

England – 58 Test wins
West Indies – 19 Test wins
India – 10 test wins
South Africa – 10 Test wins
Pakistan – 4 Test wins
New Zealand – 3 Test wins
Bangladesh – 1 Test win

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