West Indies surprised everyone in the second test being played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. After following on in the first innings, West Indies showed amazing spirit in the second innings. West Indies averted the danger of defeat by an innings and gave India a target of 121 runs. West Indies scored 390 runs in the second innings. The most important thing was that West Indies made a partnership of 79 runs for the last wicket.

After following on in the first innings and falling behind by 270 runs, West Indies performed strongly in the second innings. Everyone felt that the West Indies team would lose by an innings, but John Campbell’s 115 runs and captain Shai Hope’s 103 runs averted the danger of defeat by an innings. After this Justin Greaves scored a half-century. He made a partnership of 79 runs for the 10th wicket with Jayden Seals 32. Now India will have to score 121 runs to win the second test.

Kuldeep Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah took 3-3 wickets for India in the second innings. Whereas Mohammad Siraj got two successes. Apart from this, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar took one wicket each. However, the Indian bowlers had to work hard to take the last wicket.

India still has to bat even after following on for the fourth time

Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bat first. Yashasvi Jaiswal played a brilliant inning of 175 runs, after which captain Gill also scored a century. He scored 129 unbeaten runs. India declared its first innings at 518 runs. After this, the first innings of West Indies started on the second day of the test. By the second session of the third day, West Indies’ first innings ended at 248 runs, then India decided to follow-on West Indies.

In the first innings, Kuldeep Yadav took 5 wickets, Ravindra Jadeja took 3 and Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj took 1-1 wicket. The way West Indies was batting, it seemed that India would win this test also by an innings. India had taken a lead of 270 runs in the first innings. Even after this, India has to bat in the second innings. The last time this happened was in November 2012. This happened only for the fourth time in the history of Indian cricket.

Team India has also tightened its grip on the second Test being played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. On the second day of the second test, the Indian team declared its first innings at 518 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill scored centuries for India. After this, Ravindra Jadeja’s spin started and the top order of West Indies collapsed. After the end of the third day’s play, Jadeja made a big statement regarding the pitch.

Ravindra Jadeja’s ball was spinning a lot on the third day of the second test. It seemed that the pitch was helpful for the spinners, but such a scenario was not seen during the West Indies innings. Jadeja took 3 wickets in the last session on the third day of the second test. After the end of the day’s play, Jadeja said that the Indian team had not asked for a turning pitch.

After the end of the third day’s play, Ravindra Jadeja said, “I am not surprised because we had only asked for slow turning pitches. We had not asked for a ‘rank turner’ (a pitch completely supporting the spinners). Our expectation was that as the game progressed, the pitch would start turning slowly. We have to work hard, bowl well throughout the innings, only then we will be able to get them out. We will keep doing that. And hopefully it will give good results.”

Jadeja feels that due to the slow nature of the pitch and the low speed of the balls on the surface, it is becoming easier for the batsmen to play on the backfoot. He said, “The bounce is low and there is not much turn. You have to use your shoulders more. Not every ball is taking turn, so you have to work a little hard. If we break this current partnership, it will be easy because there is not much depth in their batting.”

This was how the third day of Delhi Test was

By the end of the second day’s play, West Indies had scored 140 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. West Indies is still 378 runs behind India in the first innings. Team India had declared the first innings on the score of 518, in response to which the West Indies team struggled and reached the score of 140. The Caribbean team still has to score 179 more runs to save the follow-on. On the second day, Indian captain Shubman Gill also dominated, who broke many records by playing an inning of 129 runs.

On the second day, the Indian team continued its innings with a score of 318/2. By the end of the first day’s play, Jaiswal had scored 173 runs, but he was run out after scoring 2 runs on the second day. Jaiswal missed scoring the third double century of his Test career.