Team India achieve more wins than losses in Tests for the first time in history

In a massive achievement, India now have more Test wins than losses for the first time in their history. They earned their 179th win to take over the 178 losses in 580 matches by beating Bangladesh by 280 runs in the first of the two-Test series at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.

India came to this series with an equal number of wins and losses and 223 draws. They now have equaled South Africa for most Test wins, and the two countries are ranked joint-fourth behind West Indies (183), England (397) and Australia (414).

Only four other of the 12 Test-playing nations have more wins than losses in Tests - Australia, England, South Africa, and Pakistan.

Interestingly, India's first-ever Test win also came at Chepauk, all the way back in 1952 against England. That was 20 years after their first Test in 1932 at Lord's which ended in a 158-run loss for CK Nayudu's visiting team.

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How India made history vs Bangladesh in Chepauk

It's a testimony to India's improvement in the format that such a historic win came in an expected and typical manner. The hosts collapsed in the first innings but Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja's record-breaking seventh-wicket stand worth 199 runs saved them from 144/6 to put up a good first-innings score.

Jasprit Bumrah and his pace partners Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep took 8 of the 10 wickets to fall in the next innings to keep Bangladesh out to a measly 149. Then, almost to nail down the gulf between the two teams, India declared at 287/4 with Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant scoring classy hundreds.

Ashwin and Jadeja then did what they do best to share nine wickets in the final innings, overcoming Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto's fighting 82 (127), to clean up the visitors for 234 for a 280-run win on the fourth day.