West Indies nudged its manner again into the competition because it ended Day Two at 86/1 after bowling out India for 438 within the first innings within the second Take a look at on Saturday on the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul and captain Kraigg Brathwaite led the cost for the house facet with a sedate, however in-control 71-run opening partnership.
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After having been blown away by the Indian bowlers within the first Take a look at, the place they misplaced by an innings, West Indian batters had been compact and risk-averse as they put their facet at some extent of chance.
West Indies although misplaced Chanderpaul late within the day, with Ravindra Jadeja snaring the left-handed batter. However Kirk McKenzie helped his captain see out the remainder of the day, with West Indies nonetheless trailing India by 352 runs.
Earlier within the morning, Virat Kohli received to his twenty ninth Take a look at hundred, his first away from dwelling since 2018. He, together with Jadeja, who scored a affected person fifty, threatened to bat West Indies out of the sport.
However West Indies capitalised on a misjudgment in working between the wickets from Kohli, whose 76th worldwide hundred was constructed on sharply run singles and doubles. After nudging one near the pitch on the leg facet, the previous Indian captain hesitated for a second, earlier than setting off, just for Alzarri Joseph to throw down the stumps on the non-striker’s finish.
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Jadeja too quickly adopted after he poked at one on the hall off a Kemar Roach outswinger.
Ravichandran Ashwin took over the mantle for India from there on as he compiled his thirteenth half-century to information India to a powerful place, which although could be chipped away by some level-headed batting from West Indies.