West Indies dragged its strategy to 229 for 5 in opposition to India on a day of attritional cricket, always interrupted by rain, with the run price barely floating over two within the second Check on Sunday on the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Ranging from an in a single day rating of 86 for one, West Indies captain Kraig Brathwaite and Kirk McKenzie started with warning as they noticed out the Indian bowlers in flip.
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McKenzie was the primary to fall, after he edged a Mukesh Kumar size ball to wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan, to reward the debutant pacer his first worldwide wicket. Quickly after the left-hander’s dismissal, it started to rain, inflicting the primary rain-enforced first light.
Brathwaite was persistence personified as he performed out 235 balls to get to his 75. Solely an out-of-ordinary ball by Ravichandran Ashwin — which drifted in like a frisbee and spun viciously to strike the stumps — may put an finish to the West Indian batter’s vigil.
The Indian bowlers, who had been shuffled round extra in hope than imaginative and prescient by captain Rohit Sharma, discovered no help from a docile pitch. India did attempt to manufacture prospects, by utilizing left-armer Jaydev Unadkat over the wicket to create footmarks on the pitch for the spinner to extract chunk. However the fixed rain interruptions meant the spinners by no means received an extended sufficient spell to benefit from it.
The spotlight of the day was a surprising catch taken by Ajinkya Rahane to dismiss a well-set Jermaine Blackwood. Ravindra Jadeja, working from over the wicket, pitched one on center and leg and spun it away from the batter.
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The ball kissed the surface fringe of Blackwod’s bat, ricocheted off Kishan’s gloves, earlier than going low onto Rahane’s left. The Indian vice-captain rapidly readjusted his physique to convey his left hand below to pluck the ball out of skinny air.
Mohammed Siraj dismissed Joshua Da Silva with a late inswinger that went by way of his defence to provide India the fifth and final wicket of the day earlier than the sport stopped for the second because of rain interruption.
Alick Athanaze and Jason Holder performed out the final hour with care as West Indies trails by 209 runs with two days of the sport in hand.