India rout Bangladesh to win test series
India have wrapped up one of the most comprehensive wins you could imagine on the third day of the second Test against Bangladesh at Dhaka. The Bangladeshis were never in contention at any stage from the end of the first session on Day 1 as India produced a near-flawless display.
Bangladesh resumed in a bad enough position at 58-5 in response to India's massive 610-3 declared, and it never really got any better. Zaheer Khan was in a destructive mood, finishing with 5-34 as the innings was wrapped up for 118.
Following on some 492 runs in arrears, it looked like being a truly humiliating defeat as the top order once again crumbled to leave the score at 10-3.Although Rajin Saleh and Mohammad Ashraful produced brief periods of resistance with innings of 42 and 67 respectively, wickets fell too regularly in the upper and middle order and again Bangladesh found themselves staring down the barrel of another score of under 200.
But enter Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladesh's hero of the series so far. He followed up his maiden Test half-century in the first Test with a spectacular 70 at better than a run a ball to give at least a trace of respectability to what was a lost cause in a match the home team would so dearly love to begin all over again.
Bangladesh were eventually bowled out 253 as Mortaza was lapped up by Dhoni off the bowling of Sachin Tendulkar for 70 from 68 balls, Bangladesh’s highest score in the Test.
Spinners Anil Kumble, Ramesh Powar and Sachin Tendulkar shared seven second innings wickets between them to compliment Zaheer Khan’s bowling at the top, which got him two wickets. Kumble, meanwhile, also crossed yet another landmark as he crossed 550 wickets in Test cricket.
The win is also Team India’s biggest in terms of the margin of defeat, coming at a timely juncture as Bangladesh were saved by rain in the first Test.
Overall, it was a rattling performance by India considering they also won the preceding one-day series 2-0 to make amends for their shock World Cup defeat at Bangladesh's hands. What india can take from this tour is the performance of Wasim Jaffer and Karthik with England tour looming on the horizon.
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posted by Rishil Babu @ 6:49 AM,
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At 8:43 AM,
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