{"id":18780,"date":"2026-06-09T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/india-register-their-biggest-victory-in-tests-crush-afghanistan-by-an-innings-and-300-runs-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:31:17","slug":"india-register-their-biggest-victory-in-tests-crush-afghanistan-by-an-innings-and-300-runs-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/india-register-their-biggest-victory-in-tests-crush-afghanistan-by-an-innings-and-300-runs-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"India register their biggest victory in Tests; crush Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\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-131584550,imgsize-42450,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mmb-12.jpg\" alt=\"India register their biggest victory in Tests; crush Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs\" title=\"Washington Sundar\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: India registered their biggest victory in Test cricket on Monday, defeating Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs on the third day of the one-off Test in New Chandigarh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The win surpassed India&#8217;s previous biggest Test victory margin (Inns &amp; 272 runs vs WI, Rajkot, 2018) and was set up by a dominant bowling performance that saw them take 15 Afghanistan wickets on the third day.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Biggest innings wins for India<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"11\">\n<ul>\n<li>Inns &amp; 300 runs vs AFG, Mullanpur, 2026*<\/li>\n<li>Inns &amp; 272 runs vs WI, Rajkot, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Inns &amp; 262 runs vs AFG, Bengaluru, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Inns &amp; 239 runs vs BAN, Mirpur, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Inns &amp; 239 runs vs SL, Nagpur, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"13\">\n<ul>\n<li>The only bigger innings victory on Indian soil was West Indies&#8217; innings-and-336-run win over India at Eden Gardens in 1958.<\/li>\n<li>Among Asian teams, only Pakistan&#8217;s innings-and-324-run win over New Zealand in Lahore in 2002 was bigger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>India bowled Afghanistan out for 152 in their first innings and then wrapped up the second innings with ease after enforcing the follow-on. While debutant left-arm spinner Manav Suthar led the way with a six-wicket haul in the first innings, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav shared seven wickets in the second innings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"-\" msid=\"131586764\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131586764\/.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Afghanistan resumed the day at 113\/5 but could not recover. Prasidh Krishna removed Azmatullah Omarzai early before Suthar ran through the lower order to finish with figures of 6\/33 in 22 overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The 23-year-old Rajasthan spinner dismissed Sharafuddin Ashraf (11), ended Rahmat Shah&#8217;s resistance after the batter scored 60 off 135 balls, and completed a five-wicket haul on Test debut. He later trapped Mohammad Saleem Safi leg-before and took the wicket of Ziaur Rahman Sharifi to end the innings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Suthar&#8217;s figures are the second-best by an Indian bowler on Test debut, behind Narendra Hirwani&#8217;s 8\/61 against the West Indies in Chennai in 1988. He also became the 10th Indian bowler and the seventh Indian spinner to take a five-wicket haul in his maiden Test appearance.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>With Afghanistan asked to bat again, India quickly tightened their grip on the match. Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav shared seven wickets between them, as Afghanistan&#8217;s batting struggled once more.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>India eventually completed an innings-and-300-run victory, the biggest win in the country&#8217;s Test history.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Brief Scores:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>India 1st innings: 564\/8 declared in 127 overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>Afghanistan: 152 and 112 all out 35.5 overs. (Sediqullah Atal 42, Rahmanullah Gurbaz 24; Washington Sundar 4\/36, Kuldeep Yadav 3\/30). <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-vs-afghanistan\/suthar-sundar-and-kuldeep-spin-india-to-biggest-victory-in-test-history-crush-afghanistan-by-an-innings-and-300-runs\/articleshow\/131584548.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India registered their biggest victory in Test cricket on Monday, defeating Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs on the third day of the one-off Test in New Chandigarh.The win surpassed India&#8217;s previous biggest Test victory margin (Inns &amp; 272 runs vs WI, Rajkot, 2018) and was set up by a dominant bowling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18780","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\/18780","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=18780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}