 "India's Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrates after completing his half-century in just 31 deliveries on Day 4 of the second Test against Bangladesh in Kanpur. PTI")
India produced a remarkable display of attacking cricket in Kanpur over the last couple of days, bringing the slam-bang action that is associated with the T20 format to Test cricket and win a match that was meandering towards a draw .
The match appeared destined for a stalemate after incessant rain resulted in early stumps on Day 1 and the second and third days were washed out without a single ball bowled. Bangladesh had reached 107/3 on Day 1 with Mominul Haque unbeaten on 40, and would have hoped to bat out the remainder of the fourth day at the very least.
While Mominul managed to get to his 13th Test hundred, Bangladesh were bowled out for 233 shortly after the lunch interval.
However, it was the manner in which India managed to score nearly 300 runs in a little over 30 overs and then bundle the Tigers out for a meagre 146 in their second innings that turned the game on its head and ensured the hosts signed off with another victory at home.
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Rohit Sharma and company thus completed a 2-0 sweep and boosted their chances of qualifying for a third successive ICC World Test Championship final by increasing their lead at the top of the table.
With the second and final Test between India and Bangladesh coming to an end on Tuesday, we take a look at some of the records broken and milestones reached by the players at Kanpur’s Green Park:
— Yashasvi Jaiswal became the first Indian batter in Test history to score half-centuries in both innings in fewer than 50 deliveries. Jaiswal’s strike rate of 128.12 in the Kanpur Test across both innings is also the third-highest among batters with fifty-plus scores in both innings of a men’s Test.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts— Jaiswal has 8 fifty-plus scores so far in 13 innings in 2024, the most by a batter on Indian soil in a calendar year in Tests. He has scored 901 runs so far this year, the third-highest in a calendar year in India.
— Ravichandran Ashwin won his 11th Player of the Series award, the joint-highest alongside Muttiah Muralitharan.
— India have now faced Bangladesh in 15 Tests without losing a single game. Only two teams have had longer unbeaten streaks against an opposition in Test cricket. 20 by Sri Lanka and 17 by New Zealand, both against Zimbabwe.
— India have also won 18 consecutive bilateral Test assignments at home now starting with a 4-0 whitewash of Australia in 2013.
— India faced just 312 deliveries across two innings in the entire second Test – the fourth-fewest by a team winning a men’s Test. India’s run-rate of 7.36 across the two innings is also the highest for a team scoring 300-plus runs in a Test.
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— A total of 1,040 deliveries were bowled during the second Test in Kanpur, the third fewest for a completed Test that went into the fifth day.
— The Kanpur match is only the seventh in Test history in which the inning team did not have an individual score of 75 or more runs or a four-wicket haul.