After being outplayed in first two test matches West Indies strongly come back here, first day,in third and final test match between India V/S West Indies at Wankhede Stadium Mumbai.
With the help of half centuries by all the top four batsmen West Indies managed to get themselves in a great situation. West Indian young batting line up did a fare job in the absence of Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
Brathwaite and A Barath scored 68 and 62 respectively.
After winning the toss West Indies immediately chose to bat on a batsman friendly pitch. But MS Dhoni was looking for a moisture on the wicket but it wasn't happen intially.
Both Ishant Sharma and debutant Varun Aaron - taking the place of the rested Umesh Yadav - got little sideways movement.
Spinners were introduced as early as ninth over of the innings. Pragyan Ojha did well-documented trouble against West Indies with the turning ball. The first wicket came in the 51st over of the WI innings.
Ashwin picked two quick wickets and sent West Indies on backfoot. Now it was the turn of Brain Lara copied D Bravo and Kirk Edwards to set themselves on the turning and bouncy pitch.
They provided a sample of their forceful strokeplay in the short period they were in the middle before tea, and continued their cavalier scoring after the interval as well. It's still early days in their career but their performances so far point towards an exciting long-term middle-order pairing for West Indies.
Ashwin continued to harry the batsmen with his variations, getting the odd delivery to jump sharply, but it was the other two spinners who produced India's chances in the final session. Virender Sehwag got an edge down the leg side off Edwards but Dhoni couldn't hang on to a tough chance, while Ojha was denied a wicket as Rahul Dravid put down a Bravo catch at first slip.
Towards the end of the day's play two faster bowlers didn't get any reverse swing as they took new ball avail but it wasn't also helped them along and WI were in strong position with 267/2.
Scorecard : 1st Innings
West Indies : Batting 267/2
A Barath 62, K Brathwaite 68, K Edwards 65*, D Bravo 57*
India : Bowling
Ashwin 89/2.
After winning the toss West Indies immediately chose to bat on a batsman friendly pitch. But MS Dhoni was looking for a moisture on the wicket but it wasn't happen intially.
Both Ishant Sharma and debutant Varun Aaron - taking the place of the rested Umesh Yadav - got little sideways movement.
Spinners were introduced as early as ninth over of the innings. Pragyan Ojha did well-documented trouble against West Indies with the turning ball. The first wicket came in the 51st over of the WI innings.
Ashwin picked two quick wickets and sent West Indies on backfoot. Now it was the turn of Brain Lara copied D Bravo and Kirk Edwards to set themselves on the turning and bouncy pitch.
Towards the end of the day's play two faster bowlers didn't get any reverse swing as they took new ball avail but it wasn't also helped them along and WI were in strong position with 267/2.
Scorecard : 1st Innings
West Indies : Batting 267/2
A Barath 62, K Brathwaite 68, K Edwards 65*, D Bravo 57*
India : Bowling
Ashwin 89/2.
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