November 08, 2013

India vs West Indies, Test 1, Day 3

India started the day from 354/6 with Rohit Sharma on 127* and R Ashwin on 92*. Both started the day well for India. They added 82 runs to India’s corpus and to their partnership of 198* before Rohit was judged LBW by umpire Kettleborough on Permaul’s bowling. Their partnership of 280 runs was the record partnership for India for seventh wicket.
Mohammed Shami
Rohit added 50 more runs to his overnight score and finished on 177 runs with 23 fours and one six. With that Rohit become the second highest runs getter on debut for India. Ashwin wasn’t too behind and completed his second ton of the career. He made 124 runs with 11 boundaries. 

After that, Indian tail Enders only managed to put nine runs to the scoreboard and India finished on 453 runs. India got the lead of 219 runs which was a huge one on that pitch. West Indian Bowlers or you can say spinners picked up all four wickets remaining wickets on Day 3. 

Permaul, who was wicket less on Day 2, scalped two wickets and their strike bowler, Shane Shillingford, also added two more to his last night four wickets. With that Shillingford finished at 6/167.

West Indies must be expected a great start from his openers, Chris Gayle and Kieran Powell. Gayle started in his very own style and smashed few boundaries which led him to 33 runs. West Indies score was parallel to him that is 33 runs for no loss. 

But that’s ended when he tried to pull the B Kumar’s short delivery and was caught by Virat Kohli. Darren Bravo (37), who came to the crease after Gayle’s wicket, had tried to consolidate the innings with Powell They made 68 runs for second wicket before Powell was plumbed in front of wickets and given out on Ashwin’s Delivery.  

West Indies was at 101 for 2 and they need 118 runs more to shunned the innings defeat. But after that there wasn’t much for West Indies who lost next eight wickets in the span of 67 runs. Samuels (4), Ramdin (1) and Sammy (8), all collapsed before Shami’s storm. Shivnarine Chanderpaul was the last man stand for West Indies and he made unbeaten 31.

Once again, Indian bowling revolves around Mohammed Shami. He was fast and accurate and to prove that true, he has stats with him. He got three wickets bowled and one LBW that shows bowling on wickets is always a good idea. Mohammed Shami finished this innings with five wicket haul. If he was good in first innings then he was deadly in second.

Ashwin couldn’t stop after scoring a ton and done what was expected from him that is picking up some wickets and he did exactly that by scalping three wickets. Indian Bowling figures (See at the end of post)

India had won the game by 51 runs and Rohit Sharma was awarded with Man of the Match in his debut match.

CvC Indian bowling Figure

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