West Indies suffer heavy defeat to India in 2nd Test

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC):

West Indies lost their last six wickets for 65 runs in quick time to tumble to a massive 257-run defeat to India inside four days of the second Test here Monday.

Set an improbable target of 468, West Indies were dismissed for 210 in their second innings nearly half-hour before tea.

Shamarh Brooks top-scored with exactly 50 while captain Jason Holder got 39 and Jermaine Blackwood, 38, but India’s varied attack proved clinical in the second session to bring a swift end to the contest at Sabina Park.

Seamer Jasprit Bumrah celebrates the wicket of Jermaine Blackwood as West Indies slide to defeat on the penultimate day of the second Test at Sabina Park.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3-58) and seamer Mohammed Shami (3-65) claimed three wickets apiece while pacer Ishant Sharma picked up two for 37.

The defeat meant yet another clean sweep for West Indies, after they suffered a chastening 318-run defeat also inside four days in Antigua a week-and-a-half ago.

Resuming the day on 45 for two, West Indies lost the wickets of Roston Chase (12) and Shimron Hetmyer (1) to be 145 for four at lunch.

Left-hander Darren Bravo (23), unbeaten on the start at 18, left the game in the fourth over never to return after complaining of feeling unwell, forcing West Indies to employ Blackwood as their first-ever ‘concussion sub’.

Brooks, who faced 119 balls and struck nine fours, put on 60 for the third wicket – first with Bravo and then with Chase – before adding a further 61 for the fifth wicket with Blackwood.

Unbeaten at lunch on 39, Brooks completed his maiden Test fifty before becoming the second wicket to fall after the interval, run out by Virat Kohli’s direct hit.

Blackwood, on 36 at tea, was the first to fall when he caught at slip off seamer Jasprit Bumrah.

Debutant Jahmar Hamilton (0) fell two balls after Brooks with no addition to the total at 177 for seven and the other debutant Rahkeem Cornwall (1) perished in the next over, caught behind off Shami, leaving Windies on the brink.

West Indies failed to win a single match on tour, suffering a 3-0 clean sweep in the Twenty20 series and a 2-0 loss in the three-match one-day series.

 

SCOREBOARD

INDIA 1st Innings 416

WEST INDIES 1st Innings 117

INDIA 2nd Innings 168-4 decl.

WEST INDIES 2nd Innings (target: 468 runs)

(overnight 45 for two)

J Campbell c Kohli b Mohammed Shami 16

K Brathwaite c wkp Pant b Ishant Sharma 3

D Bravo ret. hurt 23

S Brooks run out 50

R Chase lbw b Jadeja 12

S Hetmyer c Agarwal b Ishant Sharma 1

J Blackwood c wkp Pant b Bumrah 38

*J Holder b Jadeja 39

+J Hamilton c Rahul b Jadeja 0

R Cornwall c wkp Pant b Mohammed Shami 1

K Roach c wkp Pant b Mohammed Shami 5

S Gabriel not out 0

Extras (b14, lb2, w5, nb1) 22

TOTAL (all out, 59.5 overs) 210

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Brathwaite), 2-37 (Campbell), 3-97 (Chase), 4-98 (Hetmyer), 5-159 (Blackwood), 6-177 (Brooks), 7-177 (Hamilton), 8-180 (Cornwall), 9-206 (Roach), 10-210 (Holder)

Bowling: Ishant 12-3-37-2, Bumrah 11-4-31-1, Shami 16-2-65-3, Jadeja 19.5-4-58-3, Vihari 1-0-3-0.

Result: India won by 257 runs.

Series: India won two-match series 2-0.

Man-of-the-Match: Hanuma Vihari.

N.B – Jermaine Blackwood replaced Darren Bravo as concussion-sub in second innings.

Toss: West Indies.

Umpires: Richard Kettleborough, Paul Reiffel; TV – Rod Tucker