Virat and Co end Test cricket year with four out of four series wins

It was the sort of stroke that summed up the Bangladesh batting in the face of some hostile pace bowling. Fear was a factor, as was the obvious lack of technique and temperament. Umesh would go on to complete a five-for even as Man of the Series Ishant Sharma added to his five from the first innings to finish with a match haul of nine. The experienced Mushfiqur Rahim, who had kept the dying embers of hope glowing with a patient 59 on Saturday, abandoned that approach for an aggressive one. It fetched a few boundaries but his also his wicket. His 74 had 13 fours.

The domination of pace in the Indian attack was underlined once more as the two spinners came back empty-handed and with a small slice of the bowling. India have thus won four consecutive matches by an innings, and enjoy their best-ever winning streak of seven. As it often happens, Kohli scored an imperious hundred at an iconic venue. On Sunday, he revealed a tip which batting titan Sachin Tendulkar gave him. "He [Tendulkar] made very interesting points that probably with the pink ball, you'll have to treat the second session like the morning session, when it's getting darker and the ball starts to swing and seam. So first session, you invariably play like you play from lunch to tea, in a normal timing," said Kohli.

And about pundits comparing his team and pace attack with the feared West Indies line-up of the 1970s and 1980s, the skipper said: "I can only say we are at the top of our game. You can't judge a team's dominance with just seven games — seven years, yes."

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