India vs West Indies second Test | Gill, Jadeja excel as India continues to name the photographs

For India, Shubman Gill’s tenth Test century — his fifth in seven matches since turning into captain — arrange one other day of one-way visitors on this Test collection. For the West Indies, barring an hour or so of defiance from Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Alick Athanaze after tea, there was no escape from agony.

At stumps on day two of the second Test on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday, the boys from the Caribbean had been grimly positioned at 140 for 4, nonetheless 378 runs adrift of the host’s first-innings whole of 518 for 5 declared. That the West Indians batting 43 overs with six wickets intact was an enchancment on the primary Test paints a sorry image.

After India declared an hour after lunch with Gill unbeaten on 129, the new-ball pair of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj probed the openers. For the primary time since Roston Chase’s group landed within the subcontinent, a modicum of resistance was on proof.

Miraculous catch

It took a miraculous catch from B. Sai Sudharsan for John Campbell to be dismissed within the eighth over, for he had middled his sweep in opposition to Ravindra Jadeja. But Sai Sudharsan didn’t flinch at quick leg and noticed the ball ricochet off his proper hand onto his left. On finishing the catch, the 23-year-old needed to stroll off the sphere for remedy. His swelling is learnt to not be severe.

The most heartening part of the day for the West Indies was when Chanderpaul and Athanaze put collectively a 66-run alliance. The battle between Athanaze and Kuldeep Yadav was engrossing because the Dominican sought to dictate phrases to the left-arm wrist-spinner. He launched the bowler for a six over long-on, and located candy connection on his sweeps and reverse-sweeps. But it’s symptomatic of his profession thus far that he nonetheless fell 9 runs shy of a fifty. In the thirty third over, not lengthy after Chanderpaul edged Jadeja to Okay.L. Rahul at slip, the southpaw slog-swept Kuldeep to midwicket. Skipper Roston Chase was caught and bowled by Jadeja with out opening his account.

The first session was an illustration of Gill’s class and composure. Once Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out on 175 within the second over of the day — the seventeenth occasion of an Indian batter being dismissed on this vogue since 2023 — Gill took centrestage. After a 91-run stand between the No. 4 and Nitish Kumar, an extra 102 runs had been added by the skipper with Dhruv Jurel for the fifth wicket.