In Retrospect: 16 year anniversary of Bangladesh’s first Test match

November 10, 2000 – 16 years from today, a sunny day at Bangabandhu National Stadium. Shahriar Hossain and Meharab Hossain had their white garbs on, their helmet and pad up. They were facing a historic occasion, they were going to open batting for Bangladesh in their first ever test match in cricketing history. It was a historic occasion though we lost that match against India. It took the tigers 5 years and 34 test matches to win their first test match against Zimbabwe and claim their first ever test series win. It has been a long journey in 16 years and 95 test matches.Now we have come to a point that we can win against any big teams at home or even away. As we showed our mettle against England at the last test series. We hope we will continue this great run of form and convert the 16 years of toil and hard work into building a great test playing team admired and loved by all. .

Bangladesh against Test playing Nations:

Team	Total Matches					Home Matches					Away Matches
	Mat	Won	Lost	Draw	W/L	Mat	Won	Lost	Draw	W/L	Mat	Won	Lost	Draw	W/L
Australia	4	0	4	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
England	10	1	9	0	0.11	6	1	5	0	0.2	4	0	4	0	0
India	8	0	6	2	0	8	0	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	11	0	8	3	0	6	0	3	3	0	5	0	5	0	0
Pakistan	10	0	9	1	0	6	0	5	1	0	4	0	4	0	0
South Africa	10	0	8	2	0	6	0	4	2	0	4	0	4	0	0
Sri Lanka	16	0	14	2	0	6	0	5	1	0	10	0	9	1	0
West Indies	12	2	8	2	0.25	6	0	5	1	0	6	2	3	1	0.67
Zimbabwe	14	5	6	3	0.83	7	4	1	2	4	7	1	5	1	0.2
Total	95	8	72	15	0.11	53	5	36	12	0.14	42	3	36	3	0.08

Summary of Bangladesh’s Test records: