Afghanistan set shortest records on Test debut
India recorded their biggest innings victory and became the first Asian side to win inside two days
Bharath Seervi
15-Jun-2018
All the key stats from India's two-day win over Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan were bowled out twice on Friday as India became the first Asian side to win a Test in less than two days. Afghanistan's debut was the 21st two-day Test, only the second in Asia and just the sixth in the last 70 years. The India-Australia Test in Mumbai in 2004 was the previous shortest Test in India in terms of balls bowled. That Test lasted 202.1 overs; this one in Bengaluru lasted just 171.2 overs.
Afghanistan became only the third team to get bowled out twice on the same day in a Test. Their opponents India had suffered the same fate against England at Old Trafford in 1953, while Zimbabwe were bundled out twice against New Zealand, in 2005 and 2012.
Team 1 | Team 2 | Wkts | Day | Venue | Year |
England | Australia | 27 | 2 | Lord's | 1888 |
Australia | England | 25 | 1 | Melbourne | 1902 |
England | Australia | 24 | 2 | The Oval | 1896 |
India | Afghanistan | 24 | 2 | Bengaluru | 2018 |
South Africa | Australia | 23 | 2 | Cape Town | 2011 |
The 24 wickets that fell on the second day in Bengaluru (20 Afghanistan, 4 India) are the most to have fallen in a day of Test cricket in the last 115 years. The highest number of wickets to have fallen in a day previously in India is 20: Mumbai 2004 against Australia, and Nagpur 2015 against South Africa.
Bharath Seervi is stats sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @SeerviBharath