Zaheer's left-arm pace bowling was too hot for Bangladesh

India took 15 Bangladesh wickets on day three in Mirpur to wrap up the two-match Test series 1-0.

Mohammad Ashraful hit the joint second fastest fifty in Tests, from 26 balls, but his efforts could not prevent defeat by an innings and 239 runs.

Resuming on 58-5, Bangladesh's batsmen had no answer to Zaheer Khan as the left-arm pace bowler finished with figures of 5-34 and 2-54.

Veteran leg-spinner Anil Kumble also cashed in, with 3-32 and 2-72.

India took only two balls of Sunday's play to collect their first wicket, when Saqibul Hasan (top scorer with 30 in the first innings total of 118) fell lbw to Zaheer.

From 58-6, the innings unravelled in predictable fashion and only a dogged 25 from Khaled Mashud pushed the score past 100.

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India enforced the follow on and Javed Omar fell for a king pair with a thin edge off Zaheer through to Mahendar Dhoni.

Skipper Habibul Bashar gave mid-on a simple catch with a pull shot that went horribly wrong and an athletic dive from Dhoni brought about the wicket of Shahriar Nafees to make the score 10-3.

Finally, a Bangladesh batsman played an innings as Mohammad Ashraful (67 off 41 balls) gave the scoreboard a modicum of respectability with an array of lofted drives and pulls.

Only Jacques Kallis, against Zimbabwe, had produced a faster Test half-century.

India's spinners then took centre stage, as Kumble, Ramesh Powar and Sachin Tendulkar shared the remaining wickets.

But there was time for one final biffing innings from Mashrafe Mortaza.