IND vs WI | Jadeja-Siraj tumble out Windies for 146 to inflict innings defeat within three days in first Test

‌IND 448/5d defeat WI 192 & 146 [Athanaze 38, Greaves 25; Jadeja 4/54 (13)] by an innings and 140 runs

The second half and third day of the first Test between India and West Indies began with Tagenarine Chanderpaul and John Campbell walking out to bat chasing a first innings deficit of 286, while Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj wielded the new ball for India. The openers showed good restraint to play out the tricky phase against the shiny new SG but jsut when they seemed to have done the hard work, Chanderpaul loosely glanced a ball off his pads in the eighth over allowing a diving Nitish Kumar Reddy to take a blinder and hand Siraj his first second innings wicket on a home soil. Campbell followed suit once the spinners came on in similar fashion, poking a leg-side ball to be caught at short-leg without much ado. The scalp triggered a brutal collapse, as Brandon King edged to slip off Jadeja while Kuldeep Yadav beat Roston Chase's outside edge to rattle his stumps in the space of seven deliveries. Jadeja added a third when Shai Hope's cut met a diving Yashasvi Jaiswal as the visitors went from 24/1 to 46/5. Alick Athanaze and Justin Greaves avoided any more calamities before Lunch, quietly building a 20-run stand until the break.

The duo continued cautiously upon resumption even as the pitch seemed to come to life with each passing over, the two surviving a Jasprit Bumrah spell to grow their stand to 46. The inevitable arrived soon enough though when Athanaze tried to turn a ball against the spin, only to pop a simple return catch to Washington Sundar and end his stay for 38. A brilliant reverse swinging yorker by Siraj to Greaves the very next over sent the all-rounder packing too for 25, before Jomel Warrican offered a simple catch to mid-off two balls later as the quick's tally grew to three. Johann Layne and Jayden Seales provide some closing entertainment thereafter with cameos of 14 and 22 featuring a combined four boundaries and two maximums, while Khary Pierre stood tall for a 28-ball 13. However, it merely delayed the result, as Jadeja and Yadav eventually snuck through to bowl out the Windies for 146 and seal a mammoth victory for the Men in Blue.

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