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WI vs IND, 2nd Test, Day 5 Live Updates:West Indies will begin the fifth and final day of the ongoing Test against India at 76/2. Currently, the hosts have Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Jermaine Blackwood standing unbeaten at the crease, needing 289 runs to win.
India pacer Mohammed Siraj is confident spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will prove to be more than a handful for the West Indies batters on the final day of the second Test in Port of Spain on Monday and help the visitors make a clean sweep of the two-match series. India, after setting a 365-run target for the hosts to level the series, had West Indies struggling at 76/2 at stumps on day four with veteran spinner Ashwin taking both the wickets on Sunday. The Caribbean side still has to score 289 runs to achieve an improbable win on Monday with the wicket assisting spinners.
India's star pacer Mohammed Siraj credited his five-wicket haul on a flat track to the team's Strength and Conditioning coach Soham Desai and stated that he accepted the challenges presented to him. Siraj has been playing Test cricket for just over two years. It is a credit to his development that India's team management chose him to lead a fairly inexperienced fast bowling squad on their maiden foreign assignment in the new World Test Championship cycle, while Shami and Jasprit Bumrah rested and rehabilitated back home.
After smashing a half-century against West Indies in the second Test, Indian wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan said that Virat Kohli backed him to bat at number four and play his natural game, adding that Rishabh Pant also helped him out with his bat positioning at the National Cricket Academy (NCA). India set a massive total of 365 runs for West Indies to win the ongoing second Test, and Windies lost two wickets in the final session of day four in Port of Spain on Monday.
The Indian cricket team re-wrote the Test record books following a rare display of ultra-attacking long-format cricket on day four of the second Test against West Indies at Port of Spain on Monday, becoming the team with the highest team run-rate in a Test inning lasting a minimum of 20 overs. While England drawing polarising reactions from Test cricket lovers, and purists with their 'Bazball' school of cricket, which focuses on positive and attacking gameplay and the need to achieve clear results, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid seemed to have taken a leaf from England's book to present to fans what could be the first exhibition of 'Dravball'.
India gave themselves the best chance to win the second Test against the West Indies with an ultra-aggressive batting approach after lead pacer Mohammed Siraj produced career-best figures on another rain-hit day in Port of Spain. Siraj's five-wicket haul in the morning session allowed India to bowl out the West Indies for 255 in their first innings after the hosts started day four at 229 for five. Having gained a massive 183-run first innings lead, India went for an all-out attack in the second innings to smash 181 for two in 24 overs before declaring 35 minutes after the tea break to set the home team a 365-run target.
Virat Kohli marked his 500th appearance for India with his 76th international century in the ongoing second Test against West Indies in Trinidad. In the first innings, Kohli slammed a brilliant 121 to set up India's total of 438 runs after the hosts had opted to bowl. Kohli looked in good touch before getting run out unfortunately. The former India captain, who made his Test debut during the tour of West Indies in 2011, also overtook batting great Brian Lara in the list of players with the most numbers of centuries while batting at no. 4.
WI vs IND, 2nd Test, Day 4 Live: West Indies will resume play at 229/5 against India (438) on Day 4 of the second and final Test at Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad on Sunday. The hosts trail the visitors by 209 runs, with Alick Athanaze and Jason Holder unbeaten on 37 and 11, respectively.