Full ICC membership was achieved in 2000 and the Bangladesh men's team played its inaugural Test match that year.

The most lucrative is the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), a Twenty20 tournament played in January and February which attracts international players from other countries.

Following Partition and the creation of East Pakistan, both first-class and Test cricket were played there during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Bangladesh men's team won the 1997 ICC Trophy and made a good showing at the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

Beginning in 1994, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in preparation for full membership of the ICC, began instituting multi-day matches in domestic tournaments starting with the 1993-94 National Cricket Championship (with the semi-finals and final being two-day matches each of a single innings per team 60 and 80 overs respectively) and then continuing again (after a return to the traditional one day formats in 1995 and 1996) for the 1997, 1998/99 and 1999 National Cricket Championships with teams playing multiple innings over 3 days for the semi-finals and 4 days for the final.

Also only for the 1998/99 season of Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League the BCB introduced two-day matches of 80 overs per side.

In November 2000, Bangladesh played their inaugural Test match against India at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.

The following list includes the performance of all of Bangladesh's national teams at major competitions.

The Bangladesh national cricket team has also provided some of the greatest players to the world, the biggest example of which is Shakib Al Hasan.