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NEW DELHI: India registered their biggest triumph successful Test cricket connected Monday, defeating Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs connected the 3rd time of the one-off Test successful New Chandigarh.The triumph surpassed India's erstwhile biggest Test triumph borderline (Inns & 272 runs vs WI, Rajkot, 2018) and was acceptable up by a ascendant bowling show that saw them instrumentality 15 Afghanistan wickets connected the 3rd day.
Biggest innings wins for India
- Inns & 300 runs vs AFG, Mullanpur, 2026*
- Inns & 272 runs vs WI, Rajkot, 2018
- Inns & 262 runs vs AFG, Bengaluru, 2018
- Inns & 239 runs vs BAN, Mirpur, 2007
- Inns & 239 runs vs SL, Nagpur, 2017
- The lone bigger innings wins connected Indian ungraded are by WI vs IND astatine Eden Gardens successful 1958 (Inns & 336 runs).
- The lone different biggest innings wins by an Asian squad than this are by PAK vs NZ successful Lahore successful 2002 (Inns & 324 runs).
India bowled Afghanistan retired for 152 successful their archetypal innings and past wrapped up the 2nd innings with easiness aft enforcing the follow-on. While debutant left-arm spinner Manav Suthar led the mode with a six-wicket haul successful the archetypal innings, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav shared 7 wickets successful the 2nd innings.Afghanistan resumed the time astatine 113/5 but could not recover. Prasidh Krishna removed Azmatullah Omarzai aboriginal earlier Suthar ran done the little bid to decorativeness with figures of 6/33 successful 22 overs.The 23-year-old Rajasthan spinner dismissed Sharafuddin Ashraf (11), ended Rahmat Shah's absorption aft the batter scored 60 disconnected 135 balls, and completed a five-wicket haul connected Test debut. He aboriginal trapped Mohammad Saleem Safi leg-before and took the wicket of Ziaur Rahman Sharifi to extremity the innings.
Suthar's figures are the second-best by an Indian bowler connected Test debut, down Narendra Hirwani's 8/61 against the West Indies successful Chennai successful 1988. He besides became the 10th Indian bowler and the seventh Indian spinner to instrumentality a five-wicket haul successful his maiden Test appearance.With Afghanistan asked to bat again, India rapidly tightened their grip connected the match. Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav shared 7 wickets betwixt them, arsenic Afghanistan's batting struggled erstwhile more.India yet completed an innings-and-300-run victory, the biggest triumph successful the country's Test history.
