India vs Bangladesh Tests 2019: India Win 2-0 — Ishant Sharma Player of Series, Mayank Agarwal 243 at Indore, India's First Day-Night Test at Kolkata (9/61)
India won the Bangladesh Test series November 2019 by 2-0. Ishant Sharma won Player of the Series with 9/61 (5/22 + 4/39) in the historic 2nd Test Day-Night pink ball match at Eden Gardens, Kolkata — India's first-ever Day-Night Test. Mayank Agarwal scored 243 at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore in the 1st Test. India won the 1st Test at Indore by an innings and 130 runs. India won the 2nd Test at Kolkata by an innings and 46 runs (Bangladesh bowled out for 106 in first innings). Umesh Yadav took 12 series wickets. Virat Kohli captained India; Mominul Haque captained Bangladesh.
India won the Bangladesh Test series November 2019 by 2-0. Ishant Sharma won Player of the Series with 9/61 (5/22 + 4/39) at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Mayank Agarwal scored 243 (career-best) at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore in the 1st Test. India won the 1st Test at Indore (November 14-16) by an innings and 130 runs. India won the 2nd Test at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (November 22-24) by an innings and 46 runs — India's first-ever Day-Night Test (pink ball). Bangladesh were bowled out for 106 in their first innings at Kolkata. Umesh Yadav took 12 wickets across the series. Virat Kohli captained India; Mominul Haque captained Bangladesh (Shakib Al Hasan was unavailable due to an ICC suspension).
India's First Day-Night Test: Ishant Sharma's 9/61 at Eden Gardens
The 2nd Test at Eden Gardens, Kolkata — India's first-ever Day-Night Test match, played with the pink kookaburra under floodlights — becoming the bilateral's most historically significant match both for India's cricket calendar (first pink ball Test on Indian soil) and for Ishant Sharma's bilateral performance: the Delhi seamer taking 5/22 in Bangladesh's first innings (Bangladesh bowled out for 106) and 4/39 in their second innings, producing match figures of 9/61 that gave the Eden Gardens Day-Night inaugural match its Player of the Match performance. The pink kookaburra ball — which behaves differently from the red ball (retains its shape longer, swings earlier, loses shine more predictably) — in Eden Gardens' November evening conditions (cooler temperature under floodlights, dew beginning to affect the outfield and ball grip in the final session) generating the seam movement that Ishant exploited through his classical away-seam and cutter action. Bangladesh, without Shakib Al Hasan (suspended by the ICC for failing to report corruption approaches) and captained by Mominul Haque, being bowled out for 106 in the first innings of India's first Day-Night Test — with Ishant's 5/22 the primary dismissal mechanism — gave Eden Gardens' historic inaugural pink ball bilateral match the result (India winning by an innings and 46 runs) that the most dominant bowling performance of the series produced.
Mayank Agarwal 243: Career-Best at Holkar Stadium Indore
Mayank Agarwal scoring 243 at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore in the 1st Test — his career-best Test score, and among the highest individual scores by an India opener in a home bilateral — gave the Indore Test its defining batting contribution: the Karnataka opener batting for 330 balls with 28 fours and 8 sixes across an innings where India declared their first innings at 493/6, leaving Bangladesh to bat in deteriorating conditions. Agarwal's 243 included a 190-run partnership with Ajinkya Rahane (86), a 123-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja (60*), and a 91-run partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara (54) — three substantial partnerships across the middle and lower-middle order that transformed a solid start into a match-defining total. India winning the Indore 1st Test by an innings and 130 runs — Bangladesh unable to approach India's 493/6d across either of their two innings — gave Agarwal's 243 the bilateral impact of setting up the first-match win that, combined with the Kolkata Day-Night innings win, produced India's 2-0 sweep of Bangladesh in their only two Tests of the November 2019 home programme.
India vs Bangladesh Tests 2019 in Context
The Bangladesh tour of India Tests November 2019 — Holkar Cricket Stadium Indore (India won innings and 130) and Eden Gardens Kolkata Day-Night (India won innings and 46) — produced India's 2-0 bilateral win with Ishant's 9/61 Player of the Series, Agarwal's 243 Indore career-best, Umesh's 12 bilateral wickets, and India's inaugural Day-Night bilateral Test as the series' primary landmarks. The 2019 India-Bangladesh series — both Tests won by innings margins within 3 days — confirmed that Bangladesh's batting, without Shakib Al Hasan (ICC suspension) and on turning Indian pitches with pink ball under floodlights at Eden Gardens, could not sustain bilateral resistance against India's pace (Ishant, Umesh) and spin (Ashwin, Jadeja) combination. The Eden Gardens Day-Night Test's historical place — India's first pink ball bilateral Test, producing a 3-day innings win — gave the 2019 Bangladesh bilateral an additional landmark beyond the series result itself.
Frequently asked questions
Who won the India vs Bangladesh Test series 2019?
India won the 2019 Bangladesh Test series 2-0 (Indore: India won by innings and 130 runs — Agarwal 243; Kolkata Day-Night: India won by innings and 46 runs — Ishant 9/61, Bangladesh bowled out 106). Ishant Sharma won Player of the Series. It was India's first-ever Day-Night Test. Kohli captained India; Mominul Haque captained Bangladesh.