Bangladesh Test Records: Greatest wins by Innings in Test Format

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A Test match is managed to win when one team scores more runs than the opposing team scores in their two innings combined. A win by runs occurs when both teams have completed their allotted innings and the team that fielded last has the greater overall total of runs. This represents the number of runs they managed to score more than the opposition team. A win by innings and runs occur when one team scores more runs in a single inning than the other team scores in both innings combined.

In this article, we will look at the greatest winning margins of Bangladesh in an inning in Test format.

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Greatest Win Margins (by innings)

RankMarginOpposition VenueDate
1Innings and 184 runsWest IndiesSher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh2 December

2018

2Innings and 106 runsZimbabwe25 February

2020

  • Bangladesh vs West Indies

Bangladesh won by innings and 184 runs; took the series 2-0. The Windies were much better in their second attempt, but Bangladesh were simply too good all around. That is a huge margin! They completely dominated the two-match series. Mehidy had put up a great show in the BAN-WI series. The game featured twelve wickets, seven in the first innings and five in the second. On the outskirts, his father was seen giving him a warm hug. The two best performing batsmen in the match were Mahmudullah with the following statistics, R (134), B (241) and SR (55.60) and Shakib Al Hasan with the following statistics, R (80), B (139), SR (57.55).

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  • Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe

Bangladesh pace bowlers took nine wickets in the second innings, helping Zimbabwe lose by innings and 106 runs in the one-off Test on Tuesday, 25th February 2020 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. Zimbabwe resumed day four at 9/2 in the second innings but immediately lost the wickets of Kevin Kasuza (10) and Brendan Taylor (17) and was whittled down to 44/4 in the 17th over. Craig Ervine and Sikandar Raza then rescued the visitors’ innings, putting on 60 runs for the fifth wicket. Mominul Haque’s run-out of Ervine ended their stand (43). Immediately following the lunch break, Zimbabwe ended up losing the crucial wicket of Raza (37) and were whittled down to 121/6, dragging Bangladesh by 174 runs.

Timycen Maruma and Regis Chakabva later met. They managed to score 44 runs by hitting frequent boundary lines. Chakabva’s (18) vigil, however, came to a halt in the 48th over when Taijul Islam sent him back to the pavilion. Following this, Bangladesh finished Zimbabwe’s innings and struck them out for 189 to win the game by an inning and 106 runs.

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