The biggest build-up leading up to Afghanistan's maiden Test has been the one relating to their talented spin line-up. But Karun Nair, fighting for a place in the Indian middle-order, refused to make too much of it. Asghar Stanikzai, the Afghanistan captain, had made a bold statement earlier saying his spinners were better than the Indian spinners.

"That's a pretty big statement to make, considering they haven't played Test cricket," said Nair, only the second Indian to have made a triple hundred in Test cricket. "All of our spinners have proven themselves in Test cricket, so there isn't much to add to that."