Cricket is called a game of glorious uncertainties. This showed again in the last day of the second test between India and West Indies. On the fourth day which was mostly rained off India managed to get 4 top order wickets for just 48 runs in the 15.5 overs bowled. However in the fifth day it was a different story.
The last day of the Test match was a clear day with the sun shining hard play started on time. Anyone would have thought that 98.1 overs were more than enough to dislodge the West Indian middle and lower order. However things took a different turn. First Blackwood and Chase formed an excellent partnership 93 runs. They scored the runs very fast, in fact Blackwood got one of the fastest fifty ever made in a test match by a West Indian player.
At the fall of Blackwood's wicket, Dowrich came in to bat, Chase and Dowrich batted aggressively. They added 144 runs to their partnership but unfortunately Dowrich got a bad decision from umpire Ian Gould and was adjudged out LBW. At the fall of Dowrich's wicket captain Jason Holder came in to bat and he made the most of the situation scoring 64 of 99 balls.
Chase who got 5 wickets in Indian innings scored a brilliant 137 not out of 269 balls. India were able to take only 2 wickets in the 88 odd overs bowled by them.
It was indeed a huge surprise to see the batting that was tottering against Indian bowling put up such a positive and spirited display. This performance should have increased the self confidence of the people involved in the partnerships on the 5th day. We can expect to see better batting performance from West Indies for the rest of the series, it may rub into their bowling performance as well.
Chase was rightly given the Man of the Match award for his all round performance.
The last day of the Test match was a clear day with the sun shining hard play started on time. Anyone would have thought that 98.1 overs were more than enough to dislodge the West Indian middle and lower order. However things took a different turn. First Blackwood and Chase formed an excellent partnership 93 runs. They scored the runs very fast, in fact Blackwood got one of the fastest fifty ever made in a test match by a West Indian player.
At the fall of Blackwood's wicket, Dowrich came in to bat, Chase and Dowrich batted aggressively. They added 144 runs to their partnership but unfortunately Dowrich got a bad decision from umpire Ian Gould and was adjudged out LBW. At the fall of Dowrich's wicket captain Jason Holder came in to bat and he made the most of the situation scoring 64 of 99 balls.
Chase who got 5 wickets in Indian innings scored a brilliant 137 not out of 269 balls. India were able to take only 2 wickets in the 88 odd overs bowled by them.
It was indeed a huge surprise to see the batting that was tottering against Indian bowling put up such a positive and spirited display. This performance should have increased the self confidence of the people involved in the partnerships on the 5th day. We can expect to see better batting performance from West Indies for the rest of the series, it may rub into their bowling performance as well.
Chase was rightly given the Man of the Match award for his all round performance.
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