21/07Result
1st Test, India tour of West Indies and United States of America at North Sound, Jul 21-24 2016
India won by an inns & 92 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia
21/07Result
1st Test, India tour of West Indies and United States of America at North Sound, Jul 21-24 2016
India won by an inns & 92 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia

4.23 pm An excellent display of skill from the Indian fast bowlers. Not many would have thought they would be India's trump cards, but Kohli certainly did, and they responded. Mohammed Shami generated extra bounce. Umesh Yadav worked the crease nicely. They shared eight wickets between them. Ishant Sharma was tight enough. Only two wickets to spin. Good signs for India's chances abroad. And in Antigua, they have asked West Indies to follow-on. It appears there will be 13 overs to play until stumps

Hypocaust: "From 90-2 to 243 all out. West Indies have been bowled out for less than 250 in 14 of their last 25 Test innings.

90.2
W
Mishra to Gabriel, OUT, doesn't read the googly! Throws it up outside off to suck Gabriel into a slog sweep, misses and the middle stump takes a shellacking

ST Gabriel b Mishra 2 (29m 8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

90.1
0
Mishra to Gabriel, no run, pushed through on middle and off, Gabriel defends

Mishra brought on against the No. 11. Slip and silly point

END OF OVER:
90 | 8 Runs | WI: 243/9

  • Shane Dowrich57 (79b)
  • Shannon Gabriel2 (6b)
  • Umesh Yadav18-8-41-4
  • Ishant Sharma20-7-44-0
89.6
4
Yadav to Dowrich, FOUR, scurries away to the third man boundary, played that rapid delivery like he was playing a spinner. Keeping leg side of the ball, bat straight and then working his wrists to divert the ball from his off stump to the boundary instead

Meet: "The attitude and intent with which Dowrich hit that boundary to reach his fifty sums up his innings today" Also sums up how good the pitch can be

89.5
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, stays in line with a 138 kph length ball on off stump
89.4
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, full on off stump, drilled to mid-on
89.3
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, fuller ball outside off, driven to mid-off, along the ground this time
89.2
4
Yadav to Dowrich, FOUR, that's outstanding! The bowler goes fuller, looking for swing, Dowrich slaps him over the top and down the ground to record a fifty. Questions over his place, his promotion ahead of Ramdin. Responded well
89.1
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, short of a good length on off stump, blunted

END OF OVER:
89 | 2 Runs | WI: 235/9

  • Shannon Gabriel2 (6b)
  • Shane Dowrich49 (73b)
  • Ishant Sharma20-7-44-0
  • Umesh Yadav17-8-33-4
88.6
0
Sharma to Gabriel, no run, banged in short and it soars over the tailender, without him having to do much
88.5
0
Sharma to Gabriel, no run, handles a short ball on off stump with decent poise
88.4
1
Sharma to Dowrich, 1 run, hard-handed push into the covers, Dhawan has to move to his left but misfields. Dowrich is doing his all to eat into this lead
88.3
0
Sharma to Dowrich, no run, sweetly crunched to cover as he gets on top of the shortish ball outside off
88.3
1nb
Sharma to Dowrich, 1 no ball, 141kph, the front foot strays as Ishant looks for the blockhole, driven to mid-on

Kumar Abhisekh: "People keep forgetting Ishant winning the series in Windies last time around in 2011, the Lords test in 2014, Umesh doing well in Australia in 2012. all under Dhoni! Right?"

88.2
0
Sharma to Dowrich, no run, looks for the yorker on off stump, worked to midwicket
88.1
0
Sharma to Dowrich, no run, 141 kph, fuller ball on leg stump, clipped to midwicket

Dowrich two shy of his fifty. Ishant returns

END OF OVER:
88 | 5 Runs | WI: 233/9

  • Shannon Gabriel2 (4b)
  • Shane Dowrich48 (68b)
  • Umesh Yadav17-8-33-4
  • Mohammed Shami20-4-66-4
87.6
0
Yadav to Gabriel, no run, fuller ball on off stump, keeps it out amid much applause from the dressing room

Ayush Beria: "Fair game to Kohli, but it is not right to judge the performance of the fast bowlers against two of the weakest test teams going around. We need to wait for the the tours to big countries and more high-pressure situations for that. "

87.5
1
Yadav to Dowrich, 1 run, that could have been the end of the innings, with a run-out. Dowrich tapped it into the covers and took off for a single, Gabriel wasn't alert enough. The throw - was it Dhawan? - just misses
87.4
4
Yadav to Dowrich, FOUR, clears his front leg, takes the short ball outside off and slaps it over the covers. Dowrich is batting with thrilling purpose
87.3
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, fuller ball on off stump, driven to mid-on
87.2
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, gets behind a shortish delivery outside off. The drill, intended to go through the covers winds up at mid-on
87.1
0
Yadav to Dowrich, no run, back of a length on off stump, kept out

Konaan: "Did Saha just nonchalantly move across to take a catch in front of first slip? No panicky dive, just a nimble light-footed step and reach (unlike Lokesh Rahul or Naman Ojha) ... well-deserved record for Saha, hope he can go on and on and on. I think that tweaked technique (the late crouch rather than crouching all the way through the bowler's run-up, similar to a goalkeeper) is working."

END OF OVER:
87 | 13 Runs | WI: 228/9

  • Shane Dowrich43 (63b)
  • Shannon Gabriel2 (3b)
  • Mohammed Shami20-4-66-4
  • Umesh Yadav16-8-28-4
86.6
1
Mohammed Shami to Dowrich, 1 run, clips a back of a length ball off his pads to deep midwicket to retain strike

Match Coverage

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Biggest win outside Asia

0

No. of bigger wins for India outside Asia, than the Inns & 92 runs win in this Test. Their previous biggest win was by an Inns & 90 runs v Zim, Bulawayo, 2005-06.

Century, yes; 5-for, yes

2

No. of times Ashwin has scored a century and took a five-wicket haul in the same Test - only India cricketer to do it twice. Mankad and Umrigar did it once.

Can Samuels save WI?

84

Samuels' score in his only previous innings against India while following-on, at Eden Gardens in 2011-12. WI made 463 then but lost by an inns & 15 runs.

India again

2006

Last time West Indies were asked to follow-on in Tests at home, also by India - Gros Islet, 2006. This is their 8th follow-on in home Tests against all teams.

Saha's five-for

0

No. of India wicketkeepers to effect 5 or more dismissals in a Test inns in West Indies, before Saha in this Test. More and Dhoni had effected 4 dismissals.

Brathwaite the man

6

No. of inns for WI at home without their openers scoring 50+, before this. Brathwaite's 118 vs Eng in St George's was the last 50+ by an WI opener at home.

Swift Shami

0

No. of India fast bowlers who completed 50 Test wickets in fewer matches than Shami's 13. Venkatesh Prasad also took 13 Tests to reach the milestone.

Brathwaite gets going

9

Kraigg Brathwaite's average in his last six Test inns at home, before this. He scored 54 runs in those inns with highest of 25 including two ducks.

Opening woes continue

22

No. of innings without a 50-plus stand for West Indies, including this. Their last 50-plus stand was 55 vs SA, Port Elizabeth, Dec 2014.

Contributions from all

2

No. of instances of a team having 50+ partnerships for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th wkts, including India in this Test. First was SL v Ind, Colombo (SSC), 2008.

Century on first attempt

4

No. of India players who scored centuries in their maiden Test innings in West Indies, including Ashwin. Others: Polly Umrigar, Brijesh Patel, Sanjay Manjrekar.