IND vs BAN: Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin (Shreyas Iyer, Ravichandran Ashwin) made an unbroken 71-run partnership for the eighth wicket to give India a three-wicket win in the second and final Test cricket match against Bangladesh here on Sunday. Chasing a target of 145, India lost three quick wickets in the morning to be reduced to 74 for seven. Iyer and Ashwin took over the responsibility from here. Ashwin remained unbeaten on 42 and Iyer scored 29 runs. With the efforts of these two, India made a 2-0 clean sweep in the two-match series and strengthened their position in the World Test Championship. India won the first Test match played in Chittagong by 188 runs.
Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin have also done a special feat by sharing a 71-run partnership for the eighth wicket. Let us tell you that the unbeaten partnership of 71 runs for the 8th wicket by Iyer and Ashwin is the record for the second largest partnership made by India in the fourth innings.
By doing this, Ashwin and Iyer have broken the records of Kapil Dev and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan. Both shared a 70-run partnership for the 8th wicket in the fourth innings against Sri Lanka in Colombo in the year 1985. At the same time, Amar Singh and Lal Singh are at number one in this case, who shared a 74-run partnership for the 8th wicket for India in the fourth innings of the Lord's Test match against England in India's first Test match in 1932.
Please tell that Ashwin has also completed 3000 runs in his Test career. Ashwin has become the only cricketer to score more than 400 Test wickets and more than 3000 runs in Tests. Now if Ashwin is successful in taking a wicket, then he will become the third cricketer in the world to do so in Test cricket. In whose name 3000 Test runs and more than 450 wickets are recorded.
Shane Warne and Stuart Broad are the only cricketers who have scored more than 3000 runs in Tests and more than 450 wickets in their careers. Warne has scored 3,154 runs in Test cricket and taken 708 wickets. At the same time, Stuart Broad has scored 3,550 runs and taken 566 Test wickets. Now Ashwin has managed to score 3043 runs and 449 Test wickets in Test cricket.