It meant that for the first time in Test history, a team was playing with a quartet of bowlers, each with over 300 Test victims.
Here was a team who had not been to these shores in 23 years dictating terms to statistically the greatest bowling group of all time.
With the opportunity to make great strides on Day 4 to pull off the greatest coup in Test history.
An ode to the longevity and the togetherness of this first-ballot hall of fame bowling attack.
And also, to the resilience of Hazlewood himself to have been able to come back from so many different injuries, without ever losing his drive to succeed at the Test level despite the setbacks.
It’s not like there was no acknowledgement of Hazlewood and his feat, whether it be around the Marrara Oval or even from his own teammates.
They if anything ran up to their talisman fast bowler and jumped on him straight away as he held up the ball in ceremonial fashion.
And in many ways, even Hazlewood’s momentous achievement in the moment seemed to put Bangladesh’s batting extravaganza in Darwin into greater context.
But that’s simply how dominant they have been across the first three days of the Test.
They might even harbour hopes then of turning this match around, especially if Cameron Green can turn his very impressive 43 not out into the kind of score that Australia has been waiting to see from him.
But where Green has managed to stick around, the other two batters under a cloud in this line-up, Jake Weatherald and Marnus Labuschagne failed to do so.
Labuschagne in fact batted the best he has in a while, against the fast bowlers in particular, before falling to an innocuous delivery from left-arm spinner Taijul Islam.
In the midst of all the resulting cynicism around this Australian Test team, it was then even more important that they walked away on Saturday with one really positive storyline, that of Hazlewood’s very impressive return to Test cricket after a year away.
More so with the 12 months that lay ahead for this Australian Test team.
There were very promising signs of Hazlewood being at his brilliant best at the start of last summer as he harassed the Indian batters in the ODI series in October.
But that turned into his only international cricket output for the home season as he didn’t feature in any of the Tests against England.
To see him charging in repeatedly in Darwin against the extreme resistance of the Bangladeshis on a pitch that offered him very little was a reminder to the Australian cricket community of how invaluable he’s been from the time he kickstarted his career against India at the Gabba in December 2014.
After two seasons where it felt like the opposition was prepared to be bowled out quickly till the time they were scoring very quickly.
And if he manages to keep his body going for another 12 months, he will remain the most reliable option for Pat Cummins to turn to in different conditions and Australia will feel like they have their anchor back.
