India wraps up proceedings in quick time

Jayant and Ashwin strike in tandem to record team’s highest run-margin victory

Forty-three minutes and 69 balls was all it took for India’s spinners to wipe out New Zealand’s lower order and register a 372-run win — India’s biggest Test victory in terms of runs — to pocket the two-Test series 1-0 at the Wankhede Stadium here on Monday.

Riding on the off-spin wizardry of Jayant Yadav and R. Ashwin, India picked up the remaining five wickets for just 27 runs on the fourth morning to bundle New Zealand out for 167 runs and add 12 vital points to its World Test Championship kitty.

New Zealand being 400 runs adrift with five wickets in hand and two full days remaining, the challenge for Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra was to try and frustrate India’s spin trio.