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Kanpur
India completed a remarkable seven-wicket win over Bangladesh on the final day of a rain-hit second Test in Kanpur to seal a 2-0 series victory.
The win was set up by a record-breaking performance with the bat on day four, and means they have won 18 home Test series in a row - extending the record they already held.
Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja each took three wickets as Bangladesh were skittled out for 146 before lunch on Tuesday, leaving India needing 95 to win.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal hit 51, his second half-century of the match, as India comfortably chased down their target to secure victory in a match that lost two-and-a-half days to rain.
They now lead Australia at the top of the World Test Championship by eight points.
Speaking of the win, India skipper Rohit Sharma said, "Once we lost two and a half days, when we came on day 4 we wanted to get them out as quickly as possible and see what we could do with the bat. When they got bowled out for 230, it wasn’t about the runs we got but the overs we got at them. The pitch didn’t have much. To make a game out of it on that pitch was a superb effort.”
Reflecting on the defeats, Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto said, "Both the Tests we didn’t bat well. In these conditions, we need to bat well. If you look at our batters - we played 30-40 balls and got out.”
India star batter Virat Kohli gifted his cricket bat to former Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan for his remarkable Test career.
India set the platform for victory during a record-breaking fourth day that saw them become the fastest team to reach 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 in Tests.
It is India’s first Test series since the appointment of former opener Gautam Gambhir as head coach.
The two teams now face each other in a three-match T20 series starting on Sunday in Gwalior.
ScorescColor:> Bangladesh 233 (Mominul 107*) & 146 (Shadman 50; Bumrah 3-17, Ashwin 3-50, Jadeja 3-34) lost to India 285-9 declared (Jaiswal 72, Rahul 68) & 98-3 (Jaiswal 51) by 7 wkts.
India win series 2-0.