India's 5 biggest defeats in Test cricket

Pakistan (341 runs), Karachi 2006

Mohammad Asif floored the Indian batsmen in the second innings

Pakistan were 39-6. Irfan Pathan had taken a hat-trick to send the top three batsmen for nought, and there seemed to be no way out of jail for them. But what started with a rearguard effort from Kamran Akmal turned into something big: Pakistan’s then biggest win in Tests.

Replying to Pakistan’s first innings score of 245, the Indian team put up a weak total, troubled primarily by Mohammad Asif and Abdul Razzaq. The Pakistan batsman capitalised in the second innings, scoring a massive 599 spearheaded by Faisal Iqbal’s century. A 607-run target was always going to be too much, and despite Yuvraj Singh’s 122-run knock, the team fell way short, their biggest defeat away from home.