Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto hailed their victory over Australia in Darwin as a landmark moment, declaring it the country's finest result across formats.
"This is the biggest win so far for Bangladesh in any format," Shanto said. "Going forward, we want to do something special in the future."
The captain said he was proud of the effort that went into the historic nine-wicket win in the Darwin Test.
"Very happy, proud of myself and the way the boys played," he said. "We did lot of hard work."
Bangladesh pacers led the charge in the win, with player-of-the-match Hasan Mahmud finishing with a nine-wicket haul in the match, which included a six-fer in the first innings.
Shanto pointed to a shift in mindset among Bangladesh's pace bowlers as central to the team's growing Test credentials.
"That is the biggest change for Bangladesh in Test format," he said. "Earlier, five years ago, pacers didn't want to play Tests."
"But we've been playing lots of Test cricket and they are giving importance to Test format. They want to play, want to perform, want to be world-class."
The captain credited senior pros for driving that cultural change within the squad.
"That is the mindset they now have. Seniors like Mushfiqur and Mominul have encouraged them to play more Test cricket."
Shanto also praised Tanzid Hasan Tamim's temperament at the top of the order, who curtailed his natural attacking instincts to score his maiden Test century in the first innings.
"He attacks in the white-ball game, but in this Test he was calm and played shots on the ball's merit," he said. "As a top-order batter, we want him to have impact and he did it."
Looking ahead, Shanto said the Darwin Test has proven Bangladesh's ability to compete and wants to carry over that same momentum into the second Test in Cairns.
"We have that evidence but we have to play good cricket. We have to play five days of good cricket, and I'm going to say the same thing.
"If we play session by session, if the lower order keeps chipping in, those are the things."