Innings & 300 runs India's win margin against Afghanistan in the one-off Test match in New Chandigarh was their biggest by innings margin in Test cricket. Their previous biggest win was against West Indies in 2018 at Rajkot, by an innings and 272 runs.
India defeated Afghanistan in their previous meeting in 2018 by an innings and 262 runs, their biggest win at the time.
15 Matches played by India against Afghanistan across all formats without facing a defeat. They have won 13, including one Super Over victory, while the other matches ended in a tie and a washout. No team has played as many matches against an opponent without a defeat in men's internationals.
6 for 33 Manav Suthar's bowling figures in Afghanistan's first innings. Only one bowler has returned better figures on their Test debut for India - Narendra Hirwani, who took eight wickets in both innings on debut against West Indies in 1988.
5.5 Average runs per wicket for Suthar during his six-wicket haul. Only eleven men have taken a haul of five-plus wickets on Test debut at a better rate than Suthar. Only one of them was a spinner - Akila Dananjaya, who took five for 24 against Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2018.
9 Indians with a Player-of-the-Match award on debut in men's Tests, including Suthar. Six of the previous eight won the match award for scoring a hundred, with RP Singh against Pakistan in 2006 and R Ashwin against West Indies in 2011 being the exceptions who won it for their bowling.
3 Number of players before Suthar to score 25 or more runs, take five or more wickets, and claim three or more catches on Test debut. Suthar scored 28 in India's first innings and claimed three catches across both innings to go along with his seven wickets in the game. Albert Trott in 1895, Alex Kennedy in 1922, and Joel Garner in 1977 are the others to achieve this treble.
15 Innings that Shubman Gill has taken to score six hundreds as captain in Test cricket. Only Don Bradman (14) and Alastair Cook (14) have taken fewer innings than Gill. He also completed 1000 Test runs as captain on Saturday, making him the second-fastest among Indian captains to reach the milestone behind Sunil Gavaskar (14 innings).
1043 Runs by Rahmat Shah in Test cricket, making him the first batter to complete 1000 Test runs for Afghanistan. He surpassed the milestone in the first innings, scoring 60, the first half-century for Afghanistan against India in Tests.
126.16 KL Rahul's batting average while scoring a hundred in Test cricket is the lowest among 148 batters with ten or more hundreds in the format. Rahul was dismissed exactly on 100 in each of his previous three Test tons. Overall, only Len Hutton (4) has been dismissed more often on 100.