New Delhi. The Indian team has won the two-match Test series against Bangladesh 2-0. After winning the Chennai Test by a huge margin of 280 runs, they registered a miraculous victory in Kanpur. Bangladesh had given India a target of 95 runs to win, which was easily achieved. With this victory, India has made a clean sweep of Bangladesh in the two-match series. In this rain-interrupted test, India won by 7 wickets in just two and a half days. Yashasvi Jaiswal also scored a half-century in the second innings while Virat Kohli led the team to victory by playing an inning of 29 runs.
The test match played between India and Bangladesh in Kanpur will be recorded in the pages of history. If a team wants to win then how far it can go to achieve it will be known by watching this match. Rohit Sharma and company did the seemingly impossible task. Only 35 overs were played on the first day in which Bangladesh scored 107 runs for 3 wickets. The play on the second and third days was lost to rain. India defeated Bangladesh in the next two days of play.
Won the match in just two and a half days
In the fourth day's play, Indian bowlers bundled out Bangladesh for 233 runs in the first innings. Jasprit Bumrah took three wickets while R Ashwin, Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep took 2 wickets each. On the fourth day of the match, the Indian team batted stormily and scored 285 runs for 9 wickets in 34.4 overs and took a significant lead of 52 runs after declaring the innings. After this, on the fifth day, Bangladesh team collapsed for 146 runs in the second innings. India had a target of 95 runs to win the series, which was achieved.
first published : October 1, 2024, 1:57 pm IST
