Matt Renshaw for Australia vs Bangladesh. Image Credits: AFP
Australian batter Matt Renshaw recently made a huge record for Australia in the recent series against Bangladesh. He became the first Australian to play an international match on Bangladeshi soil in all three formats—Tests, ODIs, and T20Is.
Matt Renshaw had made his Australia Test debut way back in 2016 against South Africa at Adelaide and went on to play 11 Tests in the next three years. He had a decent outing in his debut season, scoring 547 runs in 8 Tests, with one century and 3 fifties and the best score of 184. But his returns dwindled in the next two years as he scored 89 runs in 3 Tests and was left out of the Australian side.
Matt Renshaw makes a surprise return to the Australia Test team
He was picked out of the wilderness for the Australia tour of India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. However, the series proved to be a poor one for Renshaw, as he made only 9 runs in 3 games that he played and has yet to play a Test since then.
However, Renshaw has solid numbers in first-class cricket, scoring 8188 runs in 133 games with an average of 48.59 and 26 centuries and 24 fifties. His highest score is 200*.
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Matt Renshaw makes his ODI and T20I debuts almost a decade after his Test debut
Matt Renshaw had also done well in the domestic white-ball competitions and the Big Bash League, and this led to his surprise ODI debut against India in 2025. He played 3 games, scoring 107 runs with one fifty to his name. Overall, he has played 9 ODIs, scoring 216 runs with two fifties and an average of 27.12.
His T20I debut came against Pakistan in Lahore in 2026, and since then, Renshaw has made 120 runs in 6 games with a strike rate of 121.21 and one fifty to boast about.
Matt Renshaw becomes the first Australian to play international cricket in all three formats in Bangladesh
Recently, a journalist from Code Sports Australia, Daniel Cherny, shared an obscure fact on social media platform X (previously Twitter). He revealed that Matt Renshaw is the first Australian player to play a match in all three international formats on Bangladeshi soil.
The statement is pretty true, and his sojourns in Bangladesh have spread almost a decade. He played for Australia in the two-Test series in Bangladesh in 2017. This was the first time Bangladesh defeated Australia in a Test match in Mirpur in a thriller by 20 runs. Renshaw made 76 runs in two Tests with the best score of 45.
He was recently part of the ODI series between Australia and Bangladesh in Bangladesh and played all three matches, in which the hosts registered a historic series win over the six-time world champions. Renshaw played 3 games, scoring 2 runs.
Renshaw also played a solitary T20I in Bangladesh on the same tour, scoring 12* and creating the world record of being the only Australian to play a match in all three international formats in Bangladesh.
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