Ajinkya Rahane hit consecutive half hundreds of years while captain Virat Kohli too made a well-made fifty as India assumed responsibility for the primary Test against the West Indies in Antigua on Saturday. After a profession characterizing 81 in the principal innings, Ajinkya Rahane stayed unbeaten on 53 while Kohli was batting on 51 as India arrived at 185 for three at stumps on the third day of the match. The guests presently appreciate a general lead of 260 keeps running with seven wickets close by and two entire days play remaining. Dropped on 17 by John Campbell off Kemar Roach’s bowling, Ajinkya Rahane utilized the life to enroll the eighteenth 50 years of his profession.
Ajinkya Rahane and Kohli shared an unbeaten 104 keeps running off 41.4 overs for the fourth wicket to take India to an agreeable position in the match.
India lost three wickets after lunch yet then Ajinkya Rahane and Kohli held hands and the pair played without going for broke to keep the guests’ nose ahead. Off-spinner Roston Chase was the pick of the bowlers for the hosts, grabbing two wickets for 69 runs.
Opener Mayank Agarwal (16) was the primary wicket to succumb to India in the subsequent innings, LBW by Chase in the fourteenth over in spite of the fact that TV replays demonstrated the ball was feeling the loss of the leg stump however the batsman went poorly survey.
After Agarwal’s takeoff, KL Rahul (38) and Chesteshwar Pujara (25) included 43 keeps running for the subsequent wicket to take India forward. Rahul, be that as it may, gave away his wicket, bowled by Chase. He went over his stumps while going for a scope, just to uncover all the three stumps and the West Indian spinner stuck as the batsman neglected to associate the ball.
An over later, Roach experienced Pujara’s resistance to lessen India to 81 for three.
India prior took a solid 75 runs first innings lead, which swelled to 89 by noon on the third day.
India bowled out West Indies for 222 in 74.2 overs in their first innings in answer to 297 with Ishant Sharma coming back with best figures of 5 for 43.
Other than Ishant, Mohammed Shami (2/48) and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (2/64) scalped two wickets a piece.
For West Indies, Chase top-scored with 48, while captain Jason Holder played a battling 39-run thump as the hosts neglected to develop associations.
At the opening break of the third day, India were 14 for no misfortune in their subsequent innings.
Prior, continuing at the medium-term score of 189 for eight, Holder and Miguel Cummins stuck together for 103 balls, fashioning a significant 41-run organization for the ninth wicket to take West Indies near the Indian aggregate. Holder kept a quiet head and guided his more youthful accomplice Cummins splendidly to get as close as conceivable to the Indian aggregate.
While Holder made 39 off 65 balls with the assistance of five limits, Cummins gave his captain the correct help from the opposite end by simply remaining at the wrinkle in spite of the fact that he couldn’t open his record.
Cummins’ assurance to remain at the wrinkle and give his captain organization can be checked from the way that he played 45 balls for no runs.
The Indian bowlers thought that it was hard to break the obstinate association among Holder and Cummins as they required 85 balls in the opening session of the third day to unstick the stand.
The organization was at long last broken when Holder edged a Mohammed Shami conveyance to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant behind the stumps in the 74th over.
Left-arm spinner Jadeja at last closed draperies on West Indies innings when he tidied up Cummins an over later.