Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Highlights: West Indies were all out with 127 runs, India defeated them with a staggering ten wickets to attain victory in spectacular fashion.
Day 3 could see Rishabh Pant and Ajinkya Rahane get to a century and that would mean India slot in the driver’s seat. After Pant and Kohli missed out after getting starts it seemed like there could be a collapse, but Pant and Rahane ensured nothing of the kind happens as they ended Day 2 three runs behind the Windies total. With three wickets left, Umesh Yadav polished off the Windies early in the second morning of the Test for 311, Roston Chase got to a brilliant hundred. Umesh Yadav picked career-best figures of 6/88 in 26.4 overs.
For Pant, it was more about brute power. He hit back-to-back sixes off left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican (1/76), who had till his arrival had decent figures including the wicket of Shaw. There was a steer and sweep and a slog sweep off the senior leg-spin bowler.
When off-spinner Roston Chase dropped short, he cut it ferociously. When leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo flighted the ball, he took a step forward and whacked it through mid-off. He hit 10 fours and two sixes.
Pant’s approach also gave Rahane time to build his innings even though he never looked in control. However going to Australia, India needed its vice-captain to get some runs and to his credit he hung around to do the needful.
Rahane, on Indian sub-continent, has had problem facing spinners during last home season and here Pant was taking the spinners on most of the time while Rahane was seen more comfortable facing Gabriel for a lengthy period of time. The vice-captain hit six fours in his knock.
The Indians were also helped by poor fielding from the West Indians. It also didn’t help their cause that their main keeper Shane Dowrich got a nasty hit on the knee and reserve keeper Jahmar Hamilton wasn’t up to the mark.
He dropped a regulation caught behind chance when Pant was on 24 off Shannon Gabriel (1/73) and it did prove to be costly as the youngster started taking the bowling apart.
Skipper Virat Kohli (45, 78 balls) missed out on an opportunity to add another ton to his growing list of international hundreds as he looked in no trouble whatsoever during his stay at the crease.
He hit the cover drive well and ran the singles as a time when India were in a spot of bother at 102 for 3 after Shaw and Cheteshwar Pujara (10) were out in quick succession.
Kohli was the dominant partner in the 60-run stand for the fourth wicket as Rahane was initially struggling to score runs. He was finally dismissed by his opposite number with an incoming delivery.
On a reasonably good day, what stuck out like a sore thumb was yet another failure from opener KL Rahul (4), who seemed be batting on a different pitch from his other colleagues. He has now 15 failures in 17 Test innings this year.
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: Both the victories, at Rajkot and Hyderabad, have been convincing wins. This is also the first time India has defeated the Windies by 10 wickets.
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: Shaw and Rahul are making it look very easy, they do not want the Test to spill over to Day 4 and India need 23 more runs to win. IND 49/0
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Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: West Indies were all out with 127 runs, India require 72 runs to acquire victory.
Indian pacers taking ten-fers:
Kapil Dev (2)
Chetan Sharma
V Prasad
J Srinath
Irfan Pathan (2)
Ishant Sharma
Zaheer Khan
Umesh Yadav
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates:
STAT: Ten wkts by an Indian pacer at home:
11/146 Kapil Dev v Pak, Chennai, 1980
10/135 Kapil Dev v WI, Ahmedabad, 1983
13/132 J Srinath v Pak, Kolkata, 1999
10/133 UMESH YADAV, Hybd, 2018
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: Kuldeep gets rid of Hetmyer in the same fashion as in the first innings. The Windies have not yet polished off the deficit and have already lost three wickets. WIN: 45/3
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: 350 comes up for India in 103 overs, they lead by 41 runs and West Indies need just one wicket to wrap-up hosts’ innings. Ashwin is batting along with Shardul who’s seething in pain while taking singles. Lunch time has been extended as India has one wicket left. IND 357/9
Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: India lose No 9 and it is Umesh Yadav who bites the dust. Warrican picks up the wickets and India could be all out before lunch. IND 339/9
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