{"id":627542,"date":"2026-06-08T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627542\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:10:08","slug":"india-vs-afghanistan-hosts-claim-record-victory-in-one-off-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627542\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs Afghanistan: Hosts claim record victory in one-off Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Debutant Manav Suthar took seven wickets in the match as India thrashed Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs to claim their biggest Test win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left-arm spinner Suthar took 6-33 in Afghanistan&#8217;s first innings in the one-off Test at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh stadium in New Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After centuries from opener KL Rahul and captain Shubman Gill helped India to post a mammoth 564-8 declared in their first innings, Afghanistan were quickly in trouble in reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They began day three on 113-5 and, despite Rahmat Shah reaching his half-century, were swiftly bundled out for 152 as Suthar completed his maiden five-wicket haul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been asked to follow-on, Afghanistan began well but collapsed from 74-1 to 112 all out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Off-spinner Washington Sundar was the pick of the India bowlers second time around, taking 4-36, before left-arm wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav wrapped up a comprehensive win with two wickets in two balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A complete win, ticked all the boxes so very happy,&#8221; said Gill, who registered his 11th Test hundred on day one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India&#8217;s record win in the format surpasses their hammering of West Indies by an innings and 272 runs in Rajkot in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debutant Manav Suthar took seven wickets in the match as India thrashed Afghanistan by an innings and 300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}