India Have Become The First Team To Win Four Consecutive Tests By An Innings Margin

After crushing Bangladesh by an innings and 46 runs, India registered their fourth consecutive innings win - making them the first side to do so.?

The 2-0 series win was all team India's third consecutive series sweep since the ICC Test Championship began in August this year.?India had defeated the West Indies 2-0 in an away series and demolished South Africa 3-0 at home.

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Having beaten South Africa by an innings margin in the last two Tests in the three match series, India followed it up by decimating Bangladesh by an innings margin in both the Tests.

After winning the first Test in Indore by an innings and 130 runs, India followed it with another comprehensive win in the historic day-nigh Test in Kolkata, after beating Bangladesh?by an innings nad 46 runs.?

The Kolkata Test was more special for the Indian pace bowlers who looked deadly and had Bangladesh batsmen in all sorts of bother. In the 19 Bangladesh wickets that fell - with exception of Mahmadullah in the second innings after retiring hurt - Indian pace bowlers accounted for all the wickets.?

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It marked the first time on home soil that fast bowlers walked away with all the wickets of the opposition, and spinners have little to no part to play in the Kolkata Test.?

The victory also gave India their seventh successive Test win?as the hosts recorded their best-ever run in the longest format. The previous best was six on the trot under MS Dhoni in 2013.?

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As far as the match is concerned,?Virat Kohli hit a sparkling century, his 27th in Tests and 70th in international cricket, to ensure India did not need to bat for the second time in their maiden day-night five-day game.?

But it was the Indian bowlers who were terrific again as they have been in the last few years. Ishant Sharma accounted for 9 wickets in the match, Umesh Yadav got 8, while Mohammed Shami picked two.?