Jadeja, Ashwin strike after India declare 271 forward
Tea West Indies 150 and 27 for two (Reifer 7*, Blackwood 4*) path India 421 for five dec (Jaiswal 171, Rohit 103, Kohli 76) by 244 runs
R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja picked up a wicket every to place West Indies in a spot of hassle after India declared their first innings on 421 for five. At tea on day three, West Indies had been 27 for two, with Raymon Reifer and Jermaine Blackwood on the crease.
On a pitch aiding spinners, Rohit Sharma had Ashwin and Jadeja working in tandem after the fourth over of the innings itself. Jadeja instantly induced Kraigg Brathwaite’s outdoors edge however Ishan Kishan dropped it. Jadeja wasn’t to be denied for lengthy, although. He struck in his very subsequent over, trapping Tagenarine Chanderpaul lbw for 7.
Brathwaite took 30 balls to get off the mark, earlier than Ashwin squared him up from across the wicket and had him caught at first slip.
In the morning, as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli resumed India’s innings from 312 for two, West Indies began with a few handicaps. Alzarri Joseph could not open the bowling as a result of he was off the sphere for 28 minutes earlier than stumps final night. Rahkeem Cornwall was additionally not allowed to bowl for 2 hours as he had gone off the sphere with a chest an infection earlier than lunch on day two.
Jaiswal seemed fluent even on a pitch that was slowing down each over. He was snug driving on the up in opposition to seamers, and picked up his first boundary of the day with an on-drive off Jason Holder. Three balls later, he turned the third Indian after Shikhar Dhawan (187) and Rohit Sharma (177) to score 150 or more on Test debut.
Joseph changed Holder as quickly as he was eligible to bowl. By then Jaiswal was seeking to rating shortly. He uppercut Joseph over backward level for 4 to carry up the 100-run partnership with Kohli, earlier than skipping down the bottom to launch Jomel Warrican for a straight six.
Joseph then pulled his size again, bowled 5 successive dot balls to Jaiswal, and had him caught behind with the sixth because the left-hander seemed to punch off the again foot.
Ajinkya Rahane didn’t account for the slowness of the pitch and fell for 3, chipping Kemar Roach’s first ball of the morning to cowl.
West Indies had the chance to dismiss Kohli within the sixth over of the day, when Warrican obtained him to push uppishly in the direction of further cowl however Brathwaite dropped the catch. Kohli was on 40 on the time and he needed to work laborious for his runs. It took him 147 balls to carry up his half-century, his third slowest in Test cricket.
The run-scoring turned barely simpler when, round 25 minutes earlier than lunch, Brathwaite deployed Alick Athanaze from one finish and himself from the opposite. Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja used that window to attain a few boundaries every and take India to 400.
Just after lunch, Kohli obtained one other reprieve on 72. Driving away from the physique, he edged Roach behind the stumps, and Joshua Da Silva, regardless of his one-handed diving effort, could not maintain on to the prospect. Kohli’s innings ultimately got here to an finish on 76 when he flicked Rahkeem Cornwall to leg slip.
Like the man debutant Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan additionally took a very long time to open his account. Jaiswal had obtained off the mark off the sixteenth ball; Kishan did so on the twentieth. As quickly as Kishan scored his first run, Rohit declared the innings.
Hemant Brar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo