India's 6 greatest away victories in Test cricket since 2000

1. Second Test, P Sara Oval, Colombo (August 2015)

Kohli’s first win as a Test captain

Angelo Mathews would have wanted to give Kumar Sangakkara the perfect send-off in his final Test match at Colombo but it was not to be, as India pulled off one of its most convincing Test wins in a long time. Riding on a first innings hundred from KL Rahul, India looked confident coming out to bowl on the second day. Sri Lanka looked in the dumps as they lost early wickets, but a confident Mathews scored a century to bring them closer to India’s first innings total.

KL Rahul was not able to emulate his first innings form as he fell cheaply for 2 but Ajinkya Rahane who had been promoted to No. 3 for this match showed why is one of our best batsmen abroad, scoring a patient 126 off 243 balls and also put up a 140 run partnership with Murali Vijay for the second wicket. With over 400 runs to get on the last day, the Sri Lankan batsmen folded like a pack of cards against the Indian bowlers.

Falling one after another, the wickets of Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews paved the way for a huge Indian victory as the tail just withered away under the pressure.

Ashwin with five wickets and Mishra with three pecked away at the Sri Lankan batting order not allowing partnerships to spring up. Ashwin was once again successful against Sangakkara to claim his wicket for the fourth time in as many innings. Sri Lanka collapsed, losing their last 6 wickets for 45 runs. This can be considered one of India’s greatest Test wins and is also Virat Kohli’s first win as India’s test captain.