All Stats From India’s Series Win Feat. Ishant, Umesh and Mayank

All the records broken by both India and Bangladesh in the Eden Gardens’ Day-Night Test.

It was lights out. India’s first staging of a day-night cricket test resulted in a big win on and off the field.

Virat Kohli’s lineup ended Bangladesh’s rearguard resistance in broad daylight just 8.4 overs into the third day, sealing victory by an innings and 46 runs on Sunday to secure a 2-0 win in the series.

Umesh Yadav took 5-43 and Ishant Sharma snared 4-55 for a match haul of nine wickets as Bangladesh was bowled out for 195 runs in its second innings.

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Here are the big records broken during the 2-match Test series.

• India’s 2-0 series victory is their sixth against Bangladesh.
• With two wins each against South Africa and Bangladesh by an innings, India became the first nation to achieve the distinction of registering four successive innings wins in Tests.
• India have won nine Tests and drawn two out of eleven contested against Bangladesh - winning % being 81.81.
• India's seven consecutive triumphs is their best sequence in the Tests - two against West Indies; three against South Africa and two against Bangladesh.
• Twelve successive series victories by India on Indian soil is a world record by any team in a home series.
• Since April 2017, Bangladesh have lost eight successive overseas Tests.
• Of the 55 Tests played by Bangladesh away from home, they have won four, lost 48 and drawn three.

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Bowlers’ Stats

• The just concluded Kolkata Test is the second occasion when Indian spinners have failed to capture a single wicket in India's victory - the first instance was against South Africa in the 2017-18 Johannesburg Test.
• Umesh Yadav (5/53) has recorded a five-wicket haul in the second innings for the first time in Tests, surpassing the 4 for 45 against West Indies at Hyderabad in 2018-19.
• Umesh has produced three five-wicket hauls in Tests - the first two being 6 for 88 against West Indies at Hyderabad in October 2018 and 5 for 93 against Australia at Perth in January 2012.
• Umesh is averaging 24.32 in a winning cause - his tally being 98 wickets in 30 Tests, including two five-wicket hauls.
• Ishant Sharma has got his third Man of the Match award in Tests.  He also received his third player of the series award.
• Indian pacers have claimed 19 wickets at 12.52 runs in the Kolkata Test - their best ever tally in a Test in India. They have bagged 19 wickets or more for the third time - the previous occasions being 20 wickets at 17.50 against South Africa at Johannesburg in 2017-18 and 19 wickets at 21.47) against England at Nottingham in 2018.
• Indian speedsters have taken 33 wickets at 13.48 in two Tests - their best performance in any series, surpassing the 16.23 while taking 13 wickets at 16.23 in two Tests against West Indies in 2018-19.
• Ishant Sharma & Umesh Yadav have bagged five-wicket hauls in the Kolkata Test, providing the second instance when two Indian fast bowlers took five wickets in an innings in the same Test -  the first occasion was -  Kapil Dev (5/70) and Madan Lal (5/23) against England in the 1981-82 Mumbai Test.

Batting Records

• Mayank Agarwal (243) has recorded his third century in Tests - two vs South Africa and one vs Bangladesh.
• Mayank's aforesaid innings is his career-best in Tests, obliterating the 215 vs South Africa at Vizzy last month.
• Mayank is the second Indian batsman after Rohit Sharma to reach his 200 with a six in Tests.  Rohit had achieved the feat against South Africa at Ranchi in October 2019.
• With eight sixes in his career-best knock, Mayank has established an Indian record for most sixes in a Test innings.  Navjot Singh Sidhu had recorded eight sixes during his innings of 124 vs Sri Lanka at Lucknow in January 1994.
• Mayank has taken just 12 innings to register two double hundreds - the second quickest in Tests next only to India's Vinod Kambli's feat of reaching the same in five innings.
• Mayank's runs' tally of 754 at an average of 68.54.00 in eleven innings is the most by an Indian batsman this year.  Only Australia's Steve Smith has more runs to his credit this year - 778 in eight innings, including three hundreds and three fifties, at an average of 97.25.
• In four successive Tests, four Indian batsmen have recorded double hundreds - the first instance in Tests - Mayank (vs S.Africa at Vizag), Kohli (254 not out vs South Africa at Pune), Rohit Sharma (212 vs South Africa at Ranchi) & Mayank (vs Bangladesh at Indore).
• Ajinkya Rahane, in the course of his innings of 86 (his 21st fifty), has completed his 4000 runs in Tests and became the 16th Indian batsman to accomplish the feat.
• Virat Kohli is the sixth captain to manage 5,000 runs in Tests.  His feat of reaching the milestone in 86 innings is a record, obliterating the 97 innings taken by Ricky Ponting.