He joins team-mates Nathan Lyon, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc in the Test-300 club. They are the only Test attack in history to play together after claiming 300 wickets each.

“You don’t really think about those sort of milestones when you’re playing,” Hazlewood told Kayo Sports after his 300th wicket. “I guess it’s probably something you look back on at the end.

“But I guess just to see the other names there, and I’m playing with three of them, so yeah, it’s pretty cool.”

Hazlewood, 35, began the Test five wickets shy of 300 having only played six of Australia’s last 14 Tests and none in the last 12 months due to injury. There was a debate at the selection table as to whether he would be preferred for the opening Test over Scott Boland.

But he showed his class as the rest of Australia’s bowlers struggled to break the resolve of Bangladesh’s batters on a good batting surface.

Hazlewood later acknowledged it had been hard work in his first long-form match since he was injured in the Sheffield Shield just before last season’s Ashes.

“I’m still standing, that’s good,” he said with a smile. “It’s a pretty tough slog straight up. The more matches in a row you play, you sort of get better at those longer spells, longer time in the dirt. I probably lacked a little bit of, I guess, bowling strength it felt towards the end of yesterday. But felt like I recovered pretty well and got the pace back up today.

“Obviously people don’t see it, we do a lot of work in those last four or five weeks to get some miles in the legs, which I think probably helped us out there.”

Hazlewood had a catch dropped in his opening over on day one by Lyon which proved costly with Tanzid Hasan going on to make 101 after getting the reprieve on 0. He broke a key partnership between Tanzid and Mominul Haque on the second morning when he had the latter caught behind attempting to drive him on the up.

He returned again to strike with the second new ball, removing Najmul Hossain Shanto for 84 with a beauty from around the wicket. As Australia flagged in the heat on day three he broke Hasan Mahmud’s stubborn resistance, trapping him lbw after having another lbw decision on Mehidy Miraz Hasan overturned on review earlier in the spell.

Extra bounce again accounted for Taijul Islam as Cameron Green clutched a leading edge in the gully before returning after lunch on the third day to take his fifth and reach 300 in his 26th over with Mehidy edging behind trying to drive on the up.

He took his fourth Test six-wicket haul, and his first in nine years, when he had Ebadot Hossain caught behind to end the innings.

“They hung in there tough,” Hazlewood said. “Yeah, it’s pretty hard work out there on that track. We probably stuck it out, we didn’t let the runs flow too quickly there at the end. It was just that Bangladesh hung in there nice and tough, and it was tough to get wickets out there, so it was a good effort.”