The first match of the 3-match Test series New Zealand vs West Indies ended in a draw, while at one time West Indies was close to defeat. Justin Greaves scored a historic double century and saved his team from defeat. Before this, Shai Hope also played an amazing inning of 140 runs.

New Zealand and West Indies were not able to score big in the first innings, in the second innings the Kiwi team declared the innings at 466 runs. West Indies had a target of 531 runs to win, while the Caribbean team was all out for 167 runs in the first innings. The start in the second innings was also very bad, the team lost the fourth wicket for 72 runs.

John Campbell (15), Tejnarine Chanderpaul (6), Alec Athanaz and captain Roston Chase (4) were out cheaply, then Shai Hope and Justin Greaves took over the innings, making a partnership of 196 runs for the fifth wicket. Hope was out after scoring 140 runs. In this innings played in 234 balls, he hit 2 sixes and 15 fours.

Justin Greaves created history by scoring a double century

Justin Greaves faced 388 balls and scored a double century. He remained unbeaten after scoring 202 runs, he hit 19 fours in this innings. By the end of the fifth day’s play, West Indies’ score was 457 for 6 wickets and with this the match remained a draw. However, when 4 wickets fell at 72, everyone had agreed that now no one can save West Indies from defeat.

Justin Greaves has become the 7th batsman in the world to score a double century in the fourth innings in the history of Test cricket. Before him, Kyle Mayers (210*, West Indies), Gordon Garinidge (214*, West Indies), George Hadlee (223, West Indies), Nathan Astley (222, New Zealand), Sunil Gavaskar (221, India), William Edrich (219, England) have done this.

Second highest score of the fourth innings

457 runs is the second highest total in the fourth innings in Test cricket history, this is the highest total of West Indies in the last innings. England is at number one, which had scored 654 runs in the fourth innings against South Africa in 1939. Now West Indies team has come at second position, who scored 457 runs in the fourth innings.

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.