If Manav Suthar don’t get you, Washington Sundar will. That was the stark reality which stared Afghanistan in the face as they keeled over without a fight, handing India a record innings-and-300-run victory on the middle day of the one-off Test on Monday.

Exactly what Afghanistan gained from this insipid all-round display is hard to fathom. True, they came into this game with only 12 matches in their eight years as a Test entity, but that can’t be used as an excuse for horrendous shot selection across the two innings. If it was debutant left-arm spinner Suthar who feasted on their largesse in the first knock with a terrific spell of 6-33 that fetched him the Player of the Match award, then off-spinner Sundar was the recipient of their generosity in the second, finishing with 4-36.