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India vs West Indies, LIVE Score, Second Test, Day 2 in Hyderabad: Chase Key as Windies Look to Post Challenging Total

Cricketnext Staff | Updated: October 13, 2018, 8:36 AM IST

2nd Test, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad 12 - 16 October, 2018

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08:46(IST)

West Indies will be looking to post somewhere above 350 to ensure they can atleast pose a stiff challenge to India, for them to cross 350, Roston Chase will have to lead from the front and play a key role. Jason Holder's wicket late in the day didn't help the visitors cause!

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Umesh Yadav is expected to play a key role here, considering he is the only fit paceman India have in the line-up. With Shardul Thakur limping off yesterday due to a groin strain, the pressure will firmly be on Umesh. Otherwise India might well have to turn to spinners to script a comeback

08:34(IST)

Speedster Umesh Yadav on Friday joined the growing chorus of Indian players who feel 'SG Test' ball is not ideal, saying the bowlers are unable to run through the lower-order when it gets old.
India skipper Virat Kohli has already advocated the use of hand-made Dukes from England.
"If you are saying that lower order has scored runs, then you must realise that in India, with SG Test balls on these kind of flat tracks, you neither get pace nor bounce. So the option to use variations ends," Yadav said at the end of Day 1 of the second Test against West Indies. 
"So (with SG) all you can do is to bowl one spot but then you will realise that nothing is happening even off the pitch nor is it swinging. So when middle and lower order comes in they know that ball has become soft and it doesn't come at a pace and batting becomes easier," said Umesh, who had figures of 3 for 83 from 23 overs.
"Tail-enders know that it will neither swing nor reverse. You just have to wait for something to happen and keep trying. But you can't really do it on such a big ground, the ones and twos keep coming. And West Indies' game is like that," he said.

08:27(IST) WATCH | Windies Reaped Benefits of Old Fashioned Test Match Discipline: Kalra

West Indies batting, for the first time in the series against India, looked in control as they ended day one of the Hyderabad Test at 295/7.

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Chase is just two short of what would be his fourth Test ton, but stressed he wouldn't lose his sleep over the landmark. His plan for himself is to play each ball as it comes, and hoped the team would go 'as far as they can'.
"I must say it's nothing major," he said when asked about his thought process for the upcoming day. "I have to wait and come back tomorrow. My process is simple - not to get too ahead of myself. I don't play the ball before it's released. Watch the ball and play as late as possible. We just have to bat as long as possible, go as far as possible. We'll have our discussion tomorrow in the huddle and take it from there."
West Indies' coach, Stuart Law was all praise for Chase and complimented him on the way he handled the Indian spinners.
"I think he understands spin. They face a lot of spin back in the Caribbean in domestic cricket. He has got a long reach and he takes half-a-stride and is there to the length of the crease. He uses that to his advantage, he is a clean striker of the ball," Law said.

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"I just took my time more than what I did in the first game," he said at the end of the match. "I was in a bit of a rush in the last game where I thought I just went away from my strengths and tried to over-hit the ball. On these fields, that's not necessary. I was working hard with my coaches and as I said in the press conference, it is about believing in the ability and processes. The results would come."
The latest knock extended Chase's good record against India; he made a match-saving 137* at Kingston two years earlier and had also made a fifty in the first-innings in Rajkot last week. Chase explained that playing spin on slow tracks in first-class cricket at home helped him build his game against spinners. 
"I didn't worry about what was happening at the other end and was only looking to focus on my game. If a good ball comes, I just have to put the bat and move on. In the Caribbean in first-class cricket, spinners dominate the bowling and I've come across a lot of spin and turning pitches, so I am accustomed to playing spin bowling. I thought the wickets here would spin a lot more but they are really good. 

07:54(IST) The pitch looked to have tons of runs in it. Kuldeep was the bowler who mainly troubled the Windies batsmen, mainly because they failed to read him. But Jason Holder and Chase then got together to put up a 104-run p'ship which prevented Windies from collapsing yet again!
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Hello everyone and welcome to our live blog for the second day of the second Test between India and West Indies in Hyderabad. Roston Chase led the Windies revival, as he remained unbeaten on 94 and took WI to 295/7 by stumps on day 1. India though won't be too disappointed as the pitch looks a flat one with lots of runs in it

India vs West Indies, LIVE Score, Second Test, Day 2 in Hyderabad: Chase Key as Windies Look to Post Challenging Total

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Roston Chase and Jason Holder struck solid half-centuries in a rare show of grit from the visitors as the first day of the second Test between India and Windies at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad finished in an even keel. India struck early, but Chase and Dowrich, and later Holder ensured the hosts did not run away with the game. When stumps were drawn on the first day's play, Windies were 295 for 7 after 95 overs. Chase remained unbeaten on 98 and had Devendra Bishoo for company on 2. Batting first in conditions ripe for batting, Windies started off positively with Kraigg Brathwaite slamming Umesh Yadav for a for a four first ball of the Test and then clipping him neatly off his pads in the same over to collect eight of the first over.

Shardul Thakur, for whom the day started quite brightly after he received his maiden Test cap, ended quite bitterly just 10 balls into his spell after a groin strain forced him off the field. R Ashwin, brought into the attack earlier than he would have expected, then didn't take much time to strike, getting rid of Keiron Powell (22) who was caught at covers going for a lofted drive. Shai Hope and Brathwaite thwarted the Indian attack for a brief while before the latter missed a leg-break from Kuldeep Yadav only to be trapped right in front of the stumps for 14.

Shimron Hetmyer, batting at No.4, had little inkling of which direction the ball was turning as he set about looking for the big heaves from the word go. He got lucky when a top edge flew just wide of the backward point before he found the middle of his bat by thumping fours off Umesh and Ravindra Jadeja. Hope, on the other end, looked much more solid. He looked the only one to read the spinners well and found the boundaries at every given chance. His luck though ran out in the last over before the interval when an in-dipper from Umesh trapped him lbw for 36 as Windies went into lunch at 86 for 3.

Wickets continued to tumble post the interval with Windies losing Hetmyer and Sunil Ambris in quick succession. Hetmyer fell first as he failed to read a wrong'un from Kuldeep ending up offering no shot to a delivery coming in only to be struck right in front of middle stump. Ambris, like in the first Test, started going for his shots straight away. He struck three fours but was soon dismissed when he went for one shot too many only to be caught failing to read a Kuldeep wrong'un popping a simple catch to Jadeja at cover.

At 113 for 5, it seemed another capitulation was in order. But, Chase, who has by far looked the best batsman for the Windies on tour, along with Shane Dowrich ensured that did not happen. Both batsmen did not curb their natural stroke play but played intelligently with Chase, in particular, mixing defence with aggression rather well. He took a liking to Jadeja with the left-armer not getting his lengths on point for a change.

The duo added 69 runs for the sixth wicket before Umesh struck again, trapping Dowrich lbw with his trademark in-swinger for 30. Chase, however, looking increasingly comfortable, soon reached his seventh Test half-century and found an able ally in Holder as Windies reached tea at 197 for 6. The hour after the interval proved to be the best of the tour so far for the visitors. Holder showed just why he was the fulcrum of this Windies side as he along with Chase put their heads down to take their side to a respectable score.

Holder struck six fours on his way to an eighth Test fifty before Umesh struck yet again, this time with the new ball. The pacer dug the ball short and Holder, who had played the pull so well till the time, only managed a glove down to Rishabh Pant for 52. The 104-run stand between him and Chase was easily Windies' best for the series so far. Chase survived a few nervous moments before the end of the day's play but to his credit remained unscathed. For India, Umesh and Kuldeep picked up three wickets each.

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