NEW CHANDIGARH, India — Debutant spinner Manav Suthar took seven wickets as India beat Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs Monday on day three of the one-off test.Suthar claimed 6-33 in the first innings to help give India a mammoth 412-run lead and took 1-29 in the second to finish with 7-62.After India enforced the follow-on, Washington Sundar took 4-36 while Kuldeep Yadav picked 3-30 as Afghanistan was bowled out for 112 runs in 35.5 overs.India had scored 564-8 in the first innings, while Afghanistan was out for 152 earlier on day three. It was India’s biggest win in tests, by innings. Only West Indies has scored a bigger win on Indian soil — it beat India by an innings and 336 runs at Kolkata in 1958.Afghanistan had resumed Monday at 113-5 in its first innings and lost Azmatullah Omarzai — bowled by Prasidh Krishna (3-37) — in the fifth over. Suthar then picked up two wickets in two overs, having Sharafuddin Ashraf (11) caught behind and bowling Rahmat Shah around his legs, completing his maiden five-wicket haul.Suthar’s 6-33 was the second-best figures for India on test debut, after Narendra Hirwani’s 8-61 against West Indies in 1988. He also became just the second Indian spinner to take a five-wicket haul in his maiden test innings after Amit Mishra’s 5-71 against Australia in 2008.Shah was Afghanistan’s leading scorer with 60 off 135 balls, including nine fours and a six. It was the first test half-century for an Afghan b …
