A brilliant gesture was shown by Team India's winning skipper Ajinkya Rahane, as he invited Afghanistan team players to share the group photo with trophy
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IND vs AFG: India’s biggest win in Tests; Afghanistan 2 Time All-Out in a Day

Bengaluru: India defeated Afghanistan by an innings and 262 runs at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Friday. India all-out Afghanistan twice in a single day and ended the guest’s debut test in 2 days.

This is India’s biggest victory in terms of runs and innings. Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan was adjudged Man of the Match.  Team India won a test for the first time in two days and became the first Asian team to do so. The match that started on Thursday, India managed to score 474 runs in 104.5 overs in the first innings. In reply, Afghanistan’s first innings was reduced to 109 Afghanistan and India enforced follow on Afghanistan but the story was same and visitors were unable to do anything special in the second innings too, and the whole team returned to pavilion at 103 runs. This was India’s biggest win in terms of runs and innings. 

A brilliant gesture was shown by Team India’s winning skipper Ajinkya Rahane, as he invited Afghanistan team players to share the group photo with trophy

Afghanistan became the team to play least overs in debut Test 

Afghanistan first innings was reduced to 27.5 overs; and result of this Afghanistan became team to play least overs in debut Test. Earlier this record was held by Bangladesh. In their debut test against India, Bangladesh’s managed just 46.3 overs in their second innings. 

Overs Team Opp Inn
27.5 AFG IND 1st 
38.4 AFG IND 2nd
46.3 BAN IND 2nd
47.1 NZ ENG 1st 

List of Teams Who Got All-Out in 2 Days  

Team Runs Opp Year
IND 58 & 82 ENG 1952
ZIM 59 & 99 NZ 2005
ZIM 51 & 143 NZ 2012
AFG 109 & 103 IND 2018

Afghanistan has become the team that has scored the lowest score on the field. Not only this, at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the most number of wickets fell on a single day. Earlier on this ground, the maximum was 16 wickets in one day.

The most wickets fell in single day is 27 and that was way back in 1888, the match between Australia and England.

India is on fourth on the list, here is list of top 20 or more wickets fell in single day:

Team 1 Team 2 Day Runs Wkts Venue Match Date
ENG AUS 2 157 27 Lord’s 16 Jul 1888
AUS ENG 1 221 25 Melbourne 01-Jan-02
ENG AUS 2 255 24 The Oval 10 Aug 1896
IND AFG 2 339 24 Bengaluru 14-Jun-18
SA AUS 2 294 23 Cape Town 09-Nov-11
ENG AUS 1 197 22 The Oval 11 Aug 1890
AUS WI 1 207 22 Adelaide 22-Dec-51
ENG IND 3 195 22 Manchester 17-Jul-52
SL ENG 3 229 22 Colombo (SSC) 15-Mar-01
NZ IND 3 279 22 Hamilton 19-Dec-02
NZ ZIM 3 297 22 Napier 26-Jan-12
SA ENG 1 278 21 Port Elizabeth 13 Feb 1896
ENG NZ 2 236 21 Birmingham 01-Jul-99
ENG WI 2 188 21 Lord’s 29-Jun-00
SL AUS 2 314 21 Galle 04-Aug-16
ENG AUS 2 199 20 The Oval 28 Aug 1882
ENG AUS 1 164 20 The Oval 28 Aug 1882
SA ENG 1 232 20 Port Elizabeth 12 Mar 1889
AUS ENG 1 198 20 Melbourne 29 Dec 1894
ENG SA 1 211 20 Leeds 29-Jul-07
ENG SA 3 326 20 The Oval 19-Aug-07
ENG AUS 2 240 20 Birmingham 27-May-09
ENG AUS 1 266 20 Manchester 26-Jul-09
ENG SA 1 271 20 The Oval 12-Aug-12
AUS WI 3 220 20 Sydney 01-Jan-31
AUS SA 1 194 20 Melbourne 12-Feb-32
AUS ENG 3 130 20 Brisbane 01-Dec-50
ENG IND 2 286 20 Birmingham 13-Jul-67
IND AUS 3 293 20 Mumbai 03-Nov-04
ZIM NZ 2 158 20 Harare 07-Aug-05
SL PAK 2 255 20 Kandy 03-Apr-06
SA IND 2 323 20 Johannesburg 15-Dec-06
IND SA 2 273 20 Nagpur 25-Nov-15

Source: espncricinfo

Ashwin Is in fourth place Indian Test bowlers

Bowler 

Tests Wickets
Anil Kumble 132 619
Kapil Dev 131 434
Harbhajan Singh 103 417
Ravichandran Ashwin  58* 313*
Zaheer Khan 92 311

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