India's thumping win Vs Bangladesh

India got its best ever test win over Bangladesh improving its previous big win over Austrailia tha was by an inning and 219 runs. India beat Bangladesh by an inning and 239 runs. Below is the match summary :
India 610 for 3 dec
Jaffer 138 retd hurt,
Karthik 129,
Dravid 129,
Tendulkar 122*)

Bangladesh 118 (Zaheer 5-34) and 253
Mortaza 70
Ashraful 67

Zaheer Khan got his first man of the match award. His 5 for 34 helped to restirct hosts out for 188 in first inning later in the second innings Zaheer managed two more wickets.



Aprt from Zaheer's preformance min the match there were some more great individiual performance. For the first tiem in the history of cricket first four batsmen scored centuries.

Also fastest half century was recorded a record holded for more than 112 years. This was from Bangla batsmen Mohammad Ashraful who broke the 112-year-old record for the fastest half-century in Test cricket when he reached his 50 in just 27 minutes. Previously record was holded by John Thomas Brown of England who smashed half century in 28 mins.


Remember it has been a long time Old guns fired for India

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Old guns fire fir India against Bangladesh

Sachin n Saurav Ganguly both hit TON in the comeback after thery both were rested from the one day series. Thing to note here is Sourav Ganguly reached three figures in Tests for the first time since September 2005 and this was Tendulkars 36th test century.
Below is the full scoreboard @ the end of day 2

India 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR
W Jaffer b Mashrafe Mortaza 0 1 1 0 0 0.00
KD Karthik c Mohammad Ashraful b Mashrafe Mortaza 56 146 102 8 0 54.90
R Dravid c Khaled Mashud b Shahadat Hossain 61 154 99 11 0 61.61
SR Tendulkar c Mohammad Ashraful b Shahadat Hossain 101 169 9 0 59.76
SC Ganguly c Mohammad Rafique b Mashrafe Mortaza 100 165 13 2 60.60
MS Dhoni not out 36 35 6 0 102.85
RR Powar b Mohammad Rafique 7 12 1 0 58.33
A Kumble not out 1 9 0 0 11.11
Extras (b 2, lb 8, w 2, nb 10) 22

Total (6 wickets; 97 overs) 384


Bowling O M R W Econ
Mashrafe Mortaza 24 5 95 3 3.95 (4nb, 1w)
Shahadat Hossain 17 1 75 2 4.41 (2nb, 1w)
Mohammad Rafique 24 3 99 1 4.12
Enamul Haque jnr 15 0 59 0 3.93 (4nb)
Saqibul Hasan 13 2 29 0 2.23
Mohammad Ashraful 1 0 5 0 5.00
Rajin Saleh 3 1 12 0 4.00