A dominant India made light work of Afghanistan, thrashing them by an innings and 300 runs in the one-off Test at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh on Monday.
India posted a mammoth 564/8 after deciding to bat first, before bundling out Afghanistan twice on the same day to wrap up the game on just the third day. Afghanistan could only manage 152 in the first innings and 112 in the second, losing the match by a massive margin.
The win by an innings and 300 runs is India’s biggest victory in Test cricket.
Debutant Manav Suthar was the pick of the bowlers, registering a six-wicket haul in the first innings. Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav accounted for seven wickets between them in the second innings, helping India register a colossal win.
Sundar picked four wickets in the second innings and said he felt he was getting rhythm right from the start. “I felt really good, especially to play this format after a while. Yeah, I just wanted to get a lot of volume coming into the game and obviously I felt like I was getting the rhythm right from the scratch, from ball one. And that was definitely a very good feeling,” he said after the win.
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Sundar also shone with the bat, scoring a half-century earlier in the innings. Speaking on his batting, he said, “definitely, it felt really good, both with the bat and the ball. I wanted to show good discipline with the bat and glad the way I sort of approached the entire innings and God was kind.”
Earlier, KL Rahul and skipper Shubman Gill struck centuries, taking India to a big total.
India registered their biggest Test win ever after beating Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs in New Chandigarh. (CREIMAS for BCCI) 
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