New Delhi:- The Indian team has demolished Afghanistan within three days in the only Test match. In the match played in Mullanpur, the Indian team had declared its innings at 564/8 on the second day. In response, the Afghan team was all out for 152 runs in the first innings on the third day of play and then Team India declared the follow-on. In the last session, India all out the Afghan team for 112 runs and recorded its biggest win in Test cricket by an innings and 300 runs.
Debutant Manav Suthar took 7 wickets in both the innings and made his Test debut very special. But this victory of India over Afghanistan also left everyone confused. Let's know why this happened?
When the 9th wicket of the Afghan team fell in the last moments, everyone thought that there was still one more batsman to play, but the players immediately shook hands.
The umpires came out of the field and India's big win was announced. In such a situation, questions started arising on social media on how Afghanistan lost its only Test match by 9 wickets. The real reason behind this was related to Afghanistan's batting innings. Afghanistan's batsman Sharafuddin Ashraf was seen in a lot of trouble after injuring his leg during the first innings.
Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant had seen Ashraf groaning in pain and had taken care of him and the medical team had reached the field, but still Ashraf did not stop playing his innings. After this, he was in no condition to bat in the second innings. In such a situation, he was declared 'retire hurt' and did not come on the field to bat.
This was the reason why Afghanistan's second innings was declared over as soon as their 9th wicket fell and India won the match by an innings and 300 runs.