Kuldeep Yadav took 5 wickets for 40 against Bangladesh in the opening test encounter.
Kuldeep Yadav claimed his third five-wicket haul in red-ball cricket.
Kuldeep had taken five wickets in an innin
gs in Australia and against West Indies.
Kuldeep broke Ravichandran Ashwin's and An
il Kumble's records to register the best figures by an India spinner in Bangladesh.
Ravi Ashwin's best figures of 5 for 87 in Fatullah in 2015.
Anil Kumble's best figures of 4/55 in 2004 in Fatullah.
Before Kuldeep Yadav, only two Indian spinners had five-wicket hauls in Test cricket in Bangladesh- Ashwin and Sunil Joshi.
Zaheer Khan, who claimed 7/87 in Mirpur in 2007, was the best figure by an Indian in Bangladesh.
Kuldeep Yadav is the only Indian spinner to take 5 wicket haul in all three formats.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is another bowler who has taken 5 wicket haul in all three formats of cricket.