India thumped Bangladesh to win the historic day-night Test by an innings and 46 runs insideꦐ th🦩ree days and clinched the two-match series 2-0 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday.
With the win, India becamᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe the first side in Test history to register four consecutive victories by an innings. And, by the virtue of this win, Virat Kohli became the first captain to win four consecutive Tests by an innings.
In addition to this, the win at the Eden Gardens was also India’s seventh consecutive Test victory as the hosts recorded their best-ever run in the longest format.
India had previously won six consecutive Tests under MS Dhoni’s leadership in 2013.
As far as the match is concerned, Kohli hit a sparkling century, his 27th in Tests and 70th in inter﷽national cri👍cket, to ensure India did not need to bat for the second time in their maiden Pink Ball Test.
T꧟he Indian skipper scored 136 as the hosts declared their innings on 347/9 after Ishant Sharma rattle𒉰d Bangladesh. The visitors were bowled out for 106 on the opening day.
Then Umesh Yadav claimed five wickets as Bangladesh were bowled out for 195 in the first session of play on Day▨ 3.
Here are some of the best tweets:
This is 's 7 straight Test win in a row, which is our longest streak 🙌💪😎
— BCCI (@BCCI)
Kolkata you have been amazing. 🙌🏼
Terrific display by the lads. 💪🏼Let's keep the momentum going 🇮🇳— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli)
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision" First pink ball test victory ! 👍Well🥂 done boys 😊🇮🇳💪👏🏻
— Ishant Sharma (@ImIshant)
Privileged to be a part of the , was a great experience to play the game in front of a packed Eden Gardens crowd.
Thank you & CAB for promoting the D/N Test in India. And a🐼 big cheers to our pace bowling trio who took all the𒊎 wickets in this game.— Ajinkya Rahane (@ajinkyarahane88)
Congratulations Team! It was an amazing experience to play this special Test match & to see the nuꦅmber of ppl who turned up, even on the 3rd day. Congratulations to for being the first captain in history to win 4 Consecutive Games by an innings.
— Wriddhiman Saha (@Wriddhipops)
⛄Just 7 overs for the spinners in a home test match and India win by an innings. Fantastic crowd at a landmark event and a great victory for Team India
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Doe🤪sn’t happen often in India when the spinners hardly roll their arm over in the test match. Well done on winning the𒁃 game For the team🇮🇳 Disappointing cricket from Bangladesh to say the least
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
India skipper Virat Kohli 🎃is now among the top five captains with the most n👍umber of Test wins!
53 – Graeme Smith
48 – Ricky Ponting
41 – Steve Waugh
36 – Clive Lloyd
33* – Virat Kohli— ICC (@ICC)
Now all 12 day-night Tests have ended in a result.
1 in 2 days
3 in 3 days
2 in 4 days
6 in 5 days— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
Most wickets by Indian pacers in a home Tests:
19 wickets vs BAN, 2019 Kolkata
17 wickets vs SL, 2017 KolkataIndia ജwill begin their next Test in Kolkata having picked each of their last 37 wickets at the Eꦯden Gardens by pacers!
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Outstanding series for India’s pace 🌞bowlers, especially Ishant and Umesh
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Interesting week for Test cricket! finished within 4 days, all set to end on day 3, likely to finish on day 5 and may not have a winner💦 or loser! Test cricket ka jawab nahi!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Winning by spﷺin is fun but winning by pace is more funܫ!
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
For a whopping 17 wickets between these two, let's say that test was…Umm…pink-Ish! 🦁💗
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Virat Kohli creates another world record as India's Test captain
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
9/78 from & it's all over in India's first-ever at Kolkata! 🏏
Here's Rudra Dalmia, Executive Director, handing over a well-deserved Paytm Man of the Match to Ishant Sharma.
— Paytm (@Paytm)
India's Test wins in which spinners did not pick any wickets:
v SA, Johannesburg, 2018
v Ban, Kolkata, 2019India's current pace attack is at the very best in their history.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
And there it is. Afr✨aid it has been a one-sided series. India have been too good for their opponents at test cricket 🍷in this home season.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Virat Kohli🔯 also becomes the first Indian captain to win 7 consecutive Test matches.
IC: BCCI
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
