Nah not at all. I'll have to go rewatch that test to be sure (I was just a kid at the time), but I remember the general consensus being that Australia got off the plane and half-assed it for 3 days before going 'oh **** we're losing to BD', then regrouping and pummeling them. Fairly certain we dropped Ponting at some point in the second innings too, and that would essentially cost us the game, but BD didn't look before, during or after that match as a Test quality side. It was a lot like ZIm beating Pakistan recently - more to do with Australia being sloppy and BD being scrappy than the BD team genuinely being up to Test standard. It showed when they got stomped in the next Test. The personnel back then included players who were not Test quality - Javed Omar, Enamul Haq Jnr, Shahdat Hossain.
Nafees and Saleh were class but couldn't kick on for reasons I can't remember. I'll have to go back and rewatch them play to understand why.
Contrast the BD of then with the BD that played in the rained-out series vs SA, the two tests vs England, and the test here. They have looked genuinely competitive now. Surviving tough spells of bowling, bowling extremely well in phases, showing a high level of skill and good level of determination. They have been able to raise their game up to this level for quite a while in ODIs but it has been lacking in Tests. Now that they have shown they can do this in Tests, they're firmly no longer minnows.
