Quickest Test Win: Rohit Sharma's India Enter History Books With Clinical Victory In Kanpur

Team India beat Bangladesh by 7 wickets [Source: PTI]

Team India defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium to clinch their two-match series 2-0. The Indian batters enforced speedy action on the penultimate day of the match, after Day 2 and Day 3 were called off with no play possible owing to rains and wet outfield.

Moreover, rains also hampered the opening day of the match, where only 35 overs were possible to lose out nearly two session’s worth of play. Needless to say, India’s win over Bangladesh in less than six sessions courtesy of blazing batting and impeccable bowling is now one for the records in Test cricket history.

Rohit Sharma and co. record one of quickest Test wins

Team India batters faced just 52 overs combined across both innings of the Kanpur Test to scored 383 runs at a match run-rate of 7.36. Remarkably, India batted with a run-rate of 8.22 to score 285 of those runs in just 34.4 overs during the first innings, where they recorded Test cricket’s fastest team 50, team 100, 150, 200 and 250 all in the space of a single afternoon.

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With Team India batting at a breakneck pace throughout the Kanpur Test, their 52-over effort has now helped them record of the quickest Test victories in terms of number of balls faced. The top five quickest result list, encompassing the game’s 147-year-old history, features Rohit Sharma’s team twice for recording two swift wins in the space of just nine months, with the first of them being India’s seven-wicket triumph over South Africa in Cape Town earlier this year.

List of fastest team victories in Test history in terms of number of balls faced:

Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, India will now host New Zealand in a three-match series at home in October and November. They will subsequently travel to Australia for a blockbuster five-match ‘Border-Gavaskar Trophy’ assignment later this year.

The aforementioned fixtures all form a part of the 2023-25 WTC cycle as Team India aims to qualify for the third successive final next year.

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