India showed in Kanpur that they can win the Test in just two days. If we calculate the time, maybe it will be less than two days. A little over one session was played on the first day, followed by no play on the following two days. There were only two days left, but India won the last Test of the series against Bangladesh by seven wickets long before the deadline. Ravichandran Ashwin and Yasswi Jaiswal starrer performances also set several records.
Everyone assumed that the Test, with just two days to go, would result in a draw. But with aggressive batting, India overturned all calculations by scoring 50, 100, 150 and 200 runs, the fastest team in Tests.
18
India have won 18 consecutive series at home (2013-2024). Which is the highest consecutive series win by any team in the format. Cricket's superpower Australia has won 10 consecutive home series twice (1994-2000 and 2004-2008). Apart from this, West Indies and New Zealand have the record of winning 8 Test series in a row.
180
India has won 180 Test matches. But this is the fourth highest win tally. Australia's record for most Test wins is 414. Then England won 397, West Indies 183 and South Africa 179 Tests.
312
India batted only 312 balls in the two innings of the Kanpur Test. This is the record for the fourth lowest number of balls bowled by a winning team in a Test.
7.36
India averaged 7.36 runs in the two innings of the last Test against Bangladesh, which is a world record. The previous highest run-rate record (6.80) was held by South Africa against Zimbabwe in the 2005 Test.
2
Even after the entire two days of the Test were washed away by rain, the win record is eight. The latest achievement of which is India. Earlier, three other countries (England 4 times, New Zealand 3 times) had won seven matches in seven matches.
11
Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan held the record for the highest number of Test wickets 11 times. Indian spin all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin won his equal 11th series best award in Tests today. Apart from this, Jacques Kallis 9 and Sir Richard Hadley, Imran Khan and Shane Warne became series best in Tests 8 times.
128.12
Yasaswi Jaiswal batted at a strike rate of 128.12 in two innings in Kanpur to beat Bangladesh. Which is the third highest strike rate by any batsman who scored fifty in both innings of Tests.
Jaiswal has scored 929 runs in Tests so far this year. Which is the highest Test run by an Indian batsman in one year (before the age of 23). At that age, Sunil Gavaskar scored 918 runs in the format in 1971.
