India took 15 Bangladesh wickets on day three in
Mirpur to wrap up the two-match Test series 1-0.
Mohammad Ashraful hit the joint second fastest
fifty in Tests, from 26 balls, but his efforts could not prevent
defeat by an innings and 239 runs.
Resuming on 58-5, Bangladesh’s batsmen had no
answer to Zaheer Khan as the left-arm pace bowler finished with
figures of 5-34 and 2-54. Veteran leg-spinner Anil Kumble also
cashed in, with 3-32 and 2-72.
India took only two balls of Sunday’s play to
collect their first wicket, when Saqibul Hasan (top scorer with
30 in the first innings total of 118) fell lbw to Zaheer.
From 58-6, the innings unravelled in predictable
fashion and only a dogged 25 from Khaled Mashud pushed the score
past 100.
India enforced the follow on and Javed Omar fell
for a king pair with a thin edge off Zaheer through to Mahendar
Dhoni.
Skipper Habibul Bashar gave mid-on a simple
catch with a pull shot that went horribly wrong and an athletic
dive from Dhoni brought about the wicket of Shahriar Nafees to
make the score 10-3.
Finally, a Bangladesh batsman played an innings
as Mohammad Ashraful (67 off 41 balls) gave the scoreboard a
modicum of respectability with an array of lofted drives and
pulls.
Only Jacques Kallis, against Zimbabwe, had
produced a faster Test half-century.
India’s spinners then took centre stage, as
Kumble, Ramesh Powar and Sachin Tendulkar shared the remaining
wickets.
But there was time for one final biffing innings
from Mashrafe Mortaza.
Not for the first time, he looked to be batting
far too low at number eight and was last man out for 70.
Scoreboard
India 1st inngs. 610 for 3
Bangladesh 1st inngs. 118 all out
Bangladesh 2nd Innings
Javed Omar c Dhoni b Khan 0
Shahriar Nafees c Dhoni b Singh 4
Habibul Bashar c Dravid b Khan 5
Rajin Saleh c Ganguly b Powar 42
Mohammad Ashraful c Tendulkar b Kumble 67
Shakib Al Hasan c Dravid b Powar 15
Khaled Mashud c Tendulkar b Powar 8
Mashrafe Mortaza c Dhoni b Tendulkar 70
Mohammad Sharif c and b Kumble 17
Mohammad Rafique lbw b Tendulkar 11
Syed Rasel not out 1
Extras (9nb, 3w, 1lb) 13
Total (all out in 57.3 ovs.) 253
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-10, 3-10, 4-91,
5-135, 6-148, 7-152, 8-206, 9-221, 10-251
Bowling: Khan 8-1-54-2, Singh 6-2-28-1,
Sharma 6-1-30-0, Kumble 15-1-72-2, Powar 16-4-33-3, Tendulkar
6.3-1-35-2
Umpires: B R Doctrove, D J Harper
Result: India won by an innings and 239 runs
