{"id":18462,"date":"2026-06-08T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/india-vs-afghanistan-manav-suthar-stars-on-debut-as-india-script-biggest-win-in-test-history-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:05:08","slug":"india-vs-afghanistan-manav-suthar-stars-on-debut-as-india-script-biggest-win-in-test-history-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/india-vs-afghanistan-manav-suthar-stars-on-debut-as-india-script-biggest-win-in-test-history-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs Afghanistan: Manav Suthar stars on debut as India script biggest win in Test history | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131584651,imgsize-104978,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/inia-win-0806-ani.jpg\" alt=\"India vs Afghanistan: Manav Suthar stars on debut as India script biggest win in Test history\" title=\"ANI Photo\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Left-arm spinner Manav Suthar announced his arrival on the Test stage in stunning fashion, weaving a web around Afghanistan&#8217;s batters as a ruthless India cruised to a record-breaking innings-and-300-run victory in the one-off Test at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh on Monday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Making his Test debut, the 23-year-old from Rajasthan starred with the ball, returning figures of 6\/33 in the first innings before adding another wicket in the second to finish with a seven-wicket match haul.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Such was India&#8217;s dominance that the contest was effectively decided in the first innings itself. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>After being put in to bat, India piled up a mammoth 564\/8 declared, powered by magnificent centuries from KL Rahul and captain Shubman Gill. <!-- -->Sai Sudharsan, Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar chipped in with valuable half-centuries as the hosts batted Afghanistan out of the game.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The visitors had no answers to India&#8217;s spin attack and were bundled out for 152 in their first innings, conceding a massive 412-run lead. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Suthar was the chief destroyer, ripping through the batting line-up with a six-wicket haul on debut.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Asked to follow on, Afghanistan&#8217;s resistance lasted only 35.5 overs in the second innings. India&#8217;s bowlers once again ran through the batting order to seal a crushing victory and complete one of the most one-sided contests in recent Test history.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>The win by an innings and 300 runs is India&#8217;s biggest victory in Test cricket, eclipsing the previous record of an innings and 272 runs against the West Indies in Rajkot in 2018.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Incidentally, India&#8217;s third-largest Test win also came against Afghanistan, when they secured an innings-and-262-run victory in Bengaluru in 2018.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Suthar&#8217;s figures of 6\/33 were not only instrumental in the victory but also placed him among an elite group of Indian bowlers to claim a six-wicket haul on Test debut<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>India&#8217;s biggest Test wins (by margin)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"32\">\n<ul>\n<li>Innings &amp; 300 runs vs Afghanistan, New Chandigarh (2026)<\/li>\n<li>Innings &amp; 272 runs vs West Indies, Rajkot (2018)<\/li>\n<li>Innings &amp; 262 runs vs Afghanistan, Bengaluru (2018)<\/li>\n<li>Innings &amp; 239 runs vs Bangladesh, Mirpur (2007)<\/li>\n<li>Innings &amp; 239 runs vs Sri Lanka, Nagpur (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">India&#8217;s innings-and-300-run victory over Afghanistan surpassed the previous national record of an innings and 272 runs against the West Indies in Rajkot eight years ago.<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">The win is also among the 10 biggest victories in the history of Test cricket, jointly ranking as the 10th-largest winning margin by innings.<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-vs-afghanistan\/india-vs-afghanistan-manav-suthar-stars-on-debut-as-india-script-biggest-win-in-test-history\/articleshow\/131584618.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Left-arm spinner Manav Suthar announced his arrival on the Test stage in stunning fashion, weaving a web around Afghanistan&#8217;s batters as a ruthless India cruised to a record-breaking innings-and-300-run victory in the one-off Test at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh on Monday.Making his Test debut, the 23-year-old from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}