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Kohli's eight wins in 2016 is the most for an Indian captain in a year bettering the seven wins for MS Dhoni in 2010. © Cricbuzz
India completed a comprehensive series win over England by sealing the fourth Test in Mumbai by an innings and 36 runs on Monday (December 12). India needed just eight overs to pick the last four England wickets with Ravichandran Ashwin taking all wickets falling on the fifth morning. Ashwin finished the match with 12 wickets, his seventh ten-fer and first against England.
Stats highlights for India's innings victory in Mumbai:
17 India are now unbeaten in 17 Test matches. Their last defeat came against Sri Lanka in Galle in August 2015. They have equaled their record for the longest run without a Test defeat. They enjoyed a similar run between September 1985 and March 1987.
5 This is India's fifth series win in a row, a streak that started with the 2-1 win in Sri Lanka last year. They beat South Africa 3-0 at home, West Indies 2-0 away and New Zealand 3-0 at home before this series win. This is their joint-longest stretch of series wins. They also won five in a row between October 2008 and January 2010.
Longest series winning streaks for India
3 This was the third instance of a team losing by an innings margin after posting 400 or more in the first innings of a Test. The previous instances were
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