Cricket: India beat Bangladesh by 280 runs to win first Test in Chennai

Bangladesh were each retired for 234 connected the 4th time successful Chennai arsenic hometown leader Ashwin took 10 wickets aft his century.

Ravichandran Ashwin wrecked Bangladesh arsenic helium claimed six wickets successful the 2nd innings and bowled India to a broad 280-run triumph connected the 4th time of the opening Test lucifer successful Chennai.

Chasing a mammoth 515 triumph target, Bangladesh were each retired for 234, with lone skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto (82 runs) offering immoderate absorption with the bat arsenic India took a 1-0 pb successful the two-match bid connected Sunday.

Playing astatine his location ground, the MA Chidambaram Stadium successful India’s confederate Tamil Nadu state, Ashwin followed up his first-day batting heroics (113 runs disconnected 133 balls) by taking 10 wickets crossed the 2 Bangladesh innings. He was named subordinate of the match.

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Ashwin’s spin-bowling spouse Ravindra Jadeja claimed 3 wickets connected the last time aft scoring 86 runs successful a 99-run concern with Ashwin successful India’s archetypal innings.

After Bangladesh resumed their innings connected 158-4 connected the 4th day, Shanto and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan kept India astatine bay with their dogged absorption successful the opening hour.

Home skipper Rohit Sharma pressed Ashwin into work and the section lad responded by breaking the concern successful his archetypal implicit of the day.

The wily off-spinner lured the batter guardant and Yashasvi Jaiswal took a bat-pad drawback astatine abbreviated limb to extremity Shakib’s sound of 25.

Left-arm spinner Jadeja had Litton Das caught successful the gaffe and returned to extremity Shanto’s defiant sound arsenic Bangladesh collapsed successful a heap to suffer with 5 sessions to spare.

India declared their 2nd innings astatine 287-4 connected time 3 aft centuries from Shubman Gill, who deed an unbeaten 119, and returning Rishabh Pant, who made 109, flattened the opposition.

Gill and the left-handed Pant, who is playing his archetypal Test since a superior car clang successful December 2022, enactment connected 167 runs for the 4th wicket.

The Test was besides Virat Kohli’s archetypal since the commencement of his 2nd kid made him miss India’s 4-1 triumph implicit England astatine location earlier this year.

Kohli scored conscionable 6 and 17.

Bowlers, led by Jasprit Bumrah, gave India an aboriginal vantage aft they bundled retired Bangladesh for 149 successful their archetypal innings.

India are looking to widen their pb astatine the apical of the World Test Championship rankings successful the caller Test play of 10 matches.

Bangladesh came to Chennai caller from a landmark bid triumph successful Pakistan. They person ne'er beaten India successful Tests.

The 2 teams present caput to the bluish Indian metropolis of Kanpur for the 2nd Test starting connected Friday.

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