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England won the first Test by 227 runs, [6] and India won the second Test by 317 runs, [7] to level the series at 1–1. [8] The third Test, a day/night fixture, [9] was completed inside two days, with India winning by ten wickets. [10] The loss meant that England could no longer qualify for the final of the World Test Championship. [11]
Akash Deep (Ind) made his Test debut. Shoaib Bashir (Eng) took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests. [59] Ravichandran Ashwin equalled Anil Kumble's record for the most five-wicket hauls by an Indian bowler in Tests (35). [60] Rohit Sharma (Ind) scored his 4,000th run in Tests. [61] World Test Championship points: India 12, England 0.
India's captain, Virat Kohli, acknowledged that New Zealand were the better team, but also called for a best-of-three series to decide future World Test Championships. [10] New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson was named as the man of the match, after taking seven wickets, including a five-wicket haul in the first innings.
Sehwag is the first Indian to score a triple century (300 or more runs), and has done so twice—309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008. [10] The latter is the fastest triple century in Test cricket, the 300 coming up off just 278 balls, and is also the highest score with a strike rate over 100. [11]
England won the third Test by an innings and 76 runs before the lunch break on day four, levelling the series 1–1. [11] It was Joe Root's 27th win as captain, the most by a captain of England in Test cricket. [12] India won the fourth Test by 157 runs, to lead the series 2–1 with one match to play. [13]