🏏India vs West Indies,1st Test: N M Stadium, Ahmedabad, Day 3🏏 - Page 10

Wow so many 100s congrats KL, Jurel and Jadduu.

Jaddu

Also kya fhuk kar Navratro ke next day test rakha woh bhi in Ahmedabad

🔔 log aayenge, log subha subha garba karke toh ghar laute hain.

On top of that festive season mein interesting opponents hone chahiye the.

KL and Jurel

4.44pm Another session dominated by India through and through and they now have a firm hold on this first Test. India scored 122 runs in this final session in 32 overs, going at 3.81 runs an over. They now lead by 286 runs, with Dhruv Jurel and Ravindra Jadeja scoring centuries after Rahul's 100. West Indies only managed three wickets in the entire day and have been made to toil. The Jadeja-Jurel stand would have hurt them the most with the duo adding 206 for the fifth wicket. Jurel fell late in the day, but Jadeja remains unbeaten on 104 and has Washington Sundar for company. How long will India continue batting tomorrow? Join us nice and early on day three to find out.

KL Rahul: Yeah, it has. Really enjoyed my batting. Playing in different conditions. England was fun. Obviously getting runs there gives you a lot of confidence and coming into this game with some runs behind me also helped. Feeling fresher after a longish break after the series. Yeah, I really enjoyed being back. (Were you nervous?) No, not really. Because I just played a game last week (for India A). So yeah, I was a bit nervous playing there because I haven't been on the field for a good 5-6 weeks. So just to get back into that rhythm, just to get back into getting runs and spending time in the field and coming in day after day for 4-5 days is a bit of a challenge physically as well. The conditions here have been really really challenging physically. The game that I played last week was even worse. So yeah, physically it's been really challenging. But yeah, it's good to be out in the middle and it was good for me to have that game and get some miles in me. (Why it is only his 2nd hundred at home?) Not sure really. But yeah, somehow I think the only thing that I've worked on in the last year or so has been maintaining my batting tempo. Just enjoying the phases that are not as exciting for me in my own head. Obviously when you travel abroad and play seaming swinging conditions with extra bounce, there's a lot of challenge doing that. And when you come back home, when there's 3 spinners playing and the field's spread out, you really need to get your runs with singles. The boundaries don't come that easily. So yeah, that's something that I've worked on and needed to make that mental switch to enjoy doing that, enjoy grinding and getting 100s with singles and twos as well. So that's something that I've worked on in the last year or so. And yeah, I think that's the only difference that I can see and probably that's what I wasn't doing that well previously when I played at home. (About the celebration) It was for my daughter.

STAT: Five sixes by Jadeja off Warrican - the joint second most by an Indian batter against an opposition bowler in a Test innings, only behind MS Dhoni's six sixes off Dave Mohammad in St John's in 2006 (where ball-by-ball details are available).

16:44 Local Time, 11:14 GMT, 16:44 IST: India end Day 2 firmly in the driver’s seat, leading by 286 runs and on this surface, that already looks plenty against an inexperienced West Indies batting line-up. It was a day of milestones for the hosts, with three centurions. KL Rahul began scratchily, edging one through the slips early on, but grew into his innings to bring up just his second Test hundred at home. Dhruv Jurel, in contrast, looked assured from the moment he arrived after Gill’s dismissal - calm, composed, and clinical on his way to a maiden Test century. Ravindra Jadeja lit it up with an aggressive start, launching into the spinners before reining himself in to reach yet another hundred in what has already been a prolific year. West Indies had their moments, showing discipline in patches, but couldn’t sustain the pressure long enough. Now, they face a mountain to climb. Can they summon more fight on Day 3? or will India wrap it up?

It's day 3 and the sun is out today as well. There were three hundreds on day 2 and the centurions negotiated the wear and tear well, there are many areas which would be of interest for the Indian spinners. The West Indian batters will definitely bat at some point today and they'll need to apply themselves. Lot of footmarks have developed on the pitch, batting against spin will be the key, reckon Deep Dasgupta and Daren Ganga, in the pitch report.

Breaking News: India have declared and West Indies will come out to bat first up today. They've asked for a light roller as they begin their second innings, still 286 runs adrift of India's first innings score!

IND 448/5 d

WI 162 & 6/0 (3.2)

CRR: 1.8

Day 3: 1st Session - West Indies trail by 280 runs