Ruthless India dismiss Afghanistan's challenge within two days

Afghanistan's debut Test match could last long only two days as India beat them by an innings and 262 runs in the only Test at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Friday, June 15. It took only two sessions for India to dismiss Afghanistan's batting on 109 and 103 respectively after their bowler bounced back to restricted India on 474 runs in first innings.

This is the first instance when a Test match completed inside two days. Also, it was the only 4th time in Test cricket history and the first time against India when a team bowled out twice on the same day.



India had taken control from the day one after their openers scored centuries. KL Rahul also scored a half-century. However, Afghanistan bounced back in the third session of play and took 5 wickets as India ended the day with 347 for 6.

On the second day, Hardik Pandya carried India's innings with 71 off 94 balls before they bowled out on 474 on the stroke of lunch. Umesh Yadav scored a quick fire 26* off 21 balls and gave a valuable contribution in lower down the order. Yamin Ahmadzai was the pickup bowler for Afghanistan as he picked 3 wickets for 51 runs in 19 overs.

In reply of 474, Afghanistan 1st innings was crumbled by Ishant Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin as they could last only 27.5 overs to bowled out on 109. Ashwin took 4 wickets while Ishant grabbed 2 wickets.



With trailing by 365, India gave follow-on to Afghanistan. However, their story wasn't different from the first innings. This time they took 38.4 overs before bowling out to 103. Led by Umesh Yadav's 3 for 26, Ravindra Jadeja 4 for 17 wrapped up things quickly.

Umesh Yadav ripped through Afghan's top order before Jadeja came to kill their lower order. Only Mohammad Nabi 24 in the first innings and skipper Asghar Stanikzai 25 in second innings could show some resistance. But unfortunately for them, none of the other batsmen could last long.

Shikhar Dhawan received Man Of The Match for his brilliant 107 runs.

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