For a Veerender Sehwag-led India, it was like a script perfectly executed on the floor of the sets. Just before tea on the final day, India registered a 113-run comfortable victory against minnows Bangladesh in the first Test at Chittagong on Thursday.

Set a stiff fourth innings target of 415 for an improbable win, Bangladesh put up a semblance of fight through a belligerent Mushfiqur Rahim before going down fighting for 301. India leads the two-Test series 1-0. For the visitors, Amit Mishra starred with four wickets for a match tally of 7, while pacers Ishant and Zaheer took 3 and 2 wickets respectively.

Resuming their second innings at 59/2, Bangladesh kept going down the hill steadily even as opener Tamim Iqbal showed the right character holding one end up. Tamim’s 52 was soon shadowed by the blinder of innings played by Rahim that provided a bit of consolation for the crowds. Rahim was the last man out for a breezy 102 which happens to be the fastest hundred by a Bangladeshi.

The Indian victory is however not as simple as it may look. There were enough anxious moments for the visitors right from Day One. The world-class batting line-up crumbled unusually on a truncated first day and they were in danger of ending well within 200. But a workman-like little master Sachin Tendulkar showed his teammates how to bat on this wicket by scoring his 44th Test ton. He also became the only batsman to go past 13,000 runs in the process bettering his own record for highest Test aggregate.

In the second innings, a fine century by opener Gautham Gambhir put him within the reach of Sir Don Bradman’s record. Gambhir who notched up five centuries in his last five Tests is just one knock away in the next match to rub shoulders with the Bradman.