Cricket - India vs West Indies - A Disappointing End To Test Series

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Well, if you are a Cricket Sports lover, I am sure you are enjoying it right now as the matches are going on between most of the popular Cricket playing nations except for New Zealand and South Africa.

There is a series going on between arch rivals England and Australia, there is a series bein played between India and West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and Ireland too are playing some Cricket.

Not to forget, the United States is playing the Major League Cricket T20 tournament as well in an effort to popularize the Cricket in United States.

As the India vs West Indies test series just got concluded, here I am sharing my thoughts about the series as it had a disappointing end in the Second test with Fifth day's play washed out due to rain and thus the match ending in a tame draw!!!

India rested/dropped regular players like Cheteshwar pujara, Mohammad Shami and replaced them with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Mukhesh Kumar respectively and since some other usual test players like KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Ayyar got injured, players like Ajinkya Rahane, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Undakat got extended opportunities.

Thus, Indian team for this series is a mixture of senior players and youth and I must admit, the players who got opportunity, made best use of those and were part of some records too!!!

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ravichandran Ashwin:

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India started the First test with an win and debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal stole the limelight with 171 runs in the only innings India played and his century on debut made him the 17th Indian player to start his test career with a century on debut and overall, he is also the First Indian test player to score a century on debut in overseas matches.

Apart from Jaiswal, there were contributions from skipper Rohit Sharma who too scored a century and Virat Kohli made a patient 76.

In the bowling department, it was Ravi Ashwin who reaped in rich with 5 wickets hauls in both the West Indies innings with a match haul of 12 wickets.

West Indies were disappointing as they bundled out for 150 and 130 runs respectively in First and Second innings with highest score of 47 coming from debutant Alick Athanaze.

Second Test:

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While Virat Kohli made a patient 70+ score in First test, he showed the signs of back in form with a century in Second test and most of the other Indian batters chipped in with Jaiswal continuing his form with a Fifty this time and Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin too scoring half centuries in India's First innings total of 438.

West Indies did put up a better show with the bat this time with 75 from skipper Kraigg Brathwaite and most of the top and middle order batters chipped in with 30+ scores, but the score wasn't enough to cross India's First innings total with West Indies folding out for 255.

India's bowling spearhead Mohammed Siraj in Shami's absence, was the main destroyer of West Indies batting with 5 wickets to his name in this test and debutant Mukesh Kumar chipped in with 2 wickets as well.

As there was loss of many overs due to rain by the time India started Second innings, India decided to go in with quick scoring and promoted Ishan Kishan in Fourth position in place of Virat Kohli and he didn't disappoint as he made a quickfire 52 from 34 balls and with useful contributions once again from Jaiswal and Rohit, India declared for 181 runs in Second innings on Fourth day allowing West Indies to bat for 30+ overs.

West Indies were gritty and patient in Second innings as they ended the Fourth day on 76 runs for the loss of 2 wickets and India were hoping to get rid of other 8 wickets on Fifth day as the ball was turning with Ashwin claiming both the wickets to fall.

But in contrast, it was a disappointing end as the Fifth day's play was washed out due to rain and the match ending in a draw.

While it's too early days for Indian debutants, but positives for India would be Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ishan Kishan as they displayed their batting skills and it will be interesting to see how they fare in SENA countries like South Africa, England, Australia and New Zealand in overseas matches and time only will tell.

That's it from me for today, we will have ODI's beginning from this Thursday, 27th July and have few other young prospects ready to showcase their skills and with Yashasvi Jaiswal not part of the ODI team, Ruturaj Gaikwad may get a chance to bat.

Will be back with few more updates, Thanks.

Thanks and Have a good day :)

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