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Roston Chase makes debut for West Indies.

Dhawan looking all at sea against the short ball

very long tail, ashwin 7, saha 6 and mishra 8 and then 3 number 11s.
mishra at best is a number 9.
Ashwin is probably 7.5 and Saha 7 or 8.

backfootpunch wrote:Dhawan looking all at sea against the short ball

no idea why he is even playing TBH.

Excellent bowling from Gabriel

150kph and good control

He'll be looking to get dhawan soon as well

Good to see Gabriel getting a wicket...he's the only genuine quick in this Test side.

mikesiva wrote:Good to see Gabriel getting a wicket...he's the only genuine quick in this Test side.

probably the only real bowler as well in terms of pace or seam bowlers.
WI really only got a 2 man attack with 2 bit and pieces bowlers and one part time spinner.

Can't believe a man of brathwaites size only bowls high 70's mph

Bit of a slow scoring morning session, but India have only lost 1 wicket so they would get the first piece of pie under a system Bob Willis once used a few years ago.

backfootpunch wrote:Can't believe a man of brathwaites size only bowls high 70's mph

Yep...one back injury too many in his early days. He's 28 now, so he's unlikely to bowl any faster...there are three bits-and-pieces players in this XI - Carlos Brathwaite, Jason Holder and Roston Chase.

do you mean the session count thing they did before in the verdict.

decent session for india after losing the key opener vijay.
dhawan looked ok after a dodgy first hour.

pujara out to a long hop.

I thought Sri Lanka had the worst seam bowlers in world cricket but I think I was wrong it's the windies

That second session was painful to watch...Holder and Carlos bowling innocuous medium pace buffet fare, that Dhawan and Kohli helped themselves to.

It looks like Bishoo will have to be overbowled again....