India vs Bangladesh Tests 2022: India Win 2-0 — Pujara 222 Runs Player of Series, KL Rahul Acting Captain, Mehidy 11 Wickets, Chattogram and Dhaka

India won the Bangladesh Test series December 2022 by 2-0 across 2 Tests — part of the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23 cycle. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 222 runs across the series to win Player of the Series. KL Rahul captained India as acting captain (Rohit Sharma absent through injury); Shakib Al Hasan captained Bangladesh. Kuldeep Yadav took 8 wickets for India; Mehidy Hasan Miraz took 11 wickets for Bangladesh — the most wickets by any bowler in the series. Tests: 1st at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram; 2nd at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka.

Cheteshwar Pujara 222 Runs: India's Most Consistent Batter on Tour

Cheteshwar Pujara's 222-run series total against Bangladesh in December 2022 — the most by any batter across both sides in the 2-Test bilateral — gave India their Player of the Series award and their most reliable batting anchor on a Bangladesh tour where sub-continent spin conditions (similar in some ways to Indian pitches but with different surface preparation) required patient, technically correct batting rather than aggressive strokeplay. Pujara, the Saurashtra right-hander whose Test career had been defined by marathon defensive innings building India's totals (most notably his 521 runs in the 2018-19 BGT series in Australia), producing 222 series runs in Bangladesh confirmed his value as India's most technically sound batter against high-quality spin in sub-continent away conditions — Mehidy Hasan Miraz's 11 wickets for Bangladesh demonstrating that the Dhaka and Chattogram surfaces offered enough spin assistance to challenge even India's batting when conditions were prepared for off-spin. Pujara's Player of the Series in Bangladesh came during his late-career Test resurgence: having been dropped from India's Test squad in 2022 and returning through domestic form, his Bangladesh 222-run series performance was one of his more sustained contributions of the 2022-23 period.

KL Rahul Acting Captain: India's Leadership in Rohit's Absence

KL Rahul captaining India in Bangladesh as acting captain — Rohit Sharma absent through injury — gave the 2022 Bangladesh tour a leadership dimension beyond the bilateral result: Rahul's captaincy of India's full Test squad on a 2-Test away series confirmed his standing as India's reserve Test captain while also placing him in the position of leading a side expected to win against Bangladesh in Bangladesh with India's full bowling resources (Kuldeep Yadav 8 wickets, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav) alongside India's top-order batting (Shubman Gill, Pujara, Virat Kohli). Shakib Al Hasan captaining Bangladesh — Bangladesh's most experienced and decorated all-rounder, whose Test batting and left-arm spin had been Bangladesh's primary match-influencing contributions since his 2007 debut — gave the Bangladesh side its senior tactical leadership while Mehidy Hasan Miraz (11 wickets, the series' leading wicket-taker across both sides) demonstrated the off-spin depth Bangladesh had developed as their primary bowling weapon against visiting sides on Dhaka and Chattogram pitches.

India vs Bangladesh Tests 2022 in Context

The India vs Bangladesh Test series December 2022 — Chattogram and Dhaka — produced India winning 2-0 in WTC cycle bilateral away cricket, with Pujara's 222-run Player of the Series, Rahul's acting captaincy, Kuldeep's 8 wickets, and Mehidy's series-leading 11 wickets as the key individual contributions across both sides. India winning in Bangladesh — an away bilateral in sub-continent conditions where Bangladesh's spin and slower pitches historically provide home-side assistance — confirmed India's away Test quality during the Rohit/Kohli era: India having also won in South Africa (2021-22, 1-2 series loss but their best-ever result in SA) and Sri Lanka in the preceding bilateral period. The 2022 Bangladesh 2-0 win gave India maximum WTC points from the bilateral while Bangladesh demonstrated the competitive home bowling quality (Mehidy 11 wickets) that gave their subsequent Test calendar context.