R Ashwin picked 8 wickets in the match and scored a century as well.
Set 482 runs to win in just over 2 days, England batting was not equipped to handle the turn and bounce that the Chennai pitch provided the Indian spinners. Joe Root made 33, while Rory Burns, Dan Lawrence, and Moeen Ali (43, 5 sixes), all contributed well to reduce the margin of defeat.
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However, Akshar Patel on his debut picked five wickets (5/60) including the scalps of Root, Pope, and Sibley. R Ashwin contributed with 3 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav picked 2 wickets as well, in his first Test in two years.
India had batted first after Virat Kohli had won the toss and posted 329 with Rohit Sharma making 161 and Ajinkya Rahane (67) and Rishabh Pant (58*) being the major contributors. Moeen Ali picked 4/128 for England.
R Ashwin then came to the party with the bat, scoring his 5th Test century (106), while Virat Kohli made a sublime 62 runs, as India made 286 and gained a total lead of 481 runs.
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The victory also helped India go to the second spot in the World Test Championship. The next Test will be played in the New Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, Ahmedabad, which will also be the very first day/night Test between India and England.
The cricket fraternity was elated at the Indian team’s clinical performance and lauded the performances of the Indian players on Twitter.
Here are the tweets: