09/08Result
3rd Test, India tour of West Indies and United States of America at Gros Islet, Aug 9-13 2016
India won by 237 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia
09/08Result
3rd Test, India tour of West Indies and United States of America at Gros Islet, Aug 9-13 2016
India won by 237 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia

2.30pm Bhuvneshwar sheepishly holds the ball up and leads India off the field. This has been India's session. This has been Bhuvneshwar's session. He began the middle session at 13-4-19-0 and finishes at 23.4-10-33-5. From 194 for 3, WI have crashed to 225. Be back for India's second innings.

avnish anshu: "Nothing gives me more joy than watching a simple, honest and hardworking guy like Bhuvneshwar Kumar taste success at the highest level in cricket. Incredible bowling today! "

Nilswap: "A fast bowler bowling more than 10overs in a spell!! Commendable"

Siva: "India loose last 5 wickets for 14 runs, WI matched that with 7 wickets for 23 runs. They could have even bettered that if not India grossed those catches."

Sahil: "Excellent comeback for bhuvi, he's waited long worked hard, improved speed , rediscovered swing. Hope he continues same way"

karthick: "WI top 5, every batsman >20. Lower 5, every batsman <20 !"

Rajesh: "WI were 202/4 when the 5th wicket fell. So they went from 202/4 to 225 all out. They lost the last 6 wickets in 23 runs... Excellent bowling by India and in that Bhuvi took 5 for 16"

103.4
W
Kumar to Dowrich, OUT, bobble, bobble, and taken finally by Dhawan! Bhuvneshwar's third Test five-for wraps WI up for 225. Say cheese: Coach Kumble snaps up the moment with his camera. Back of a length and outside off with extra bounce. No real movement. Dowrich jabs and nicks it to first slip. Dhawan grabs it against his chest, on the rebound. Take a bow, Bhuvneshwar!

SO Dowrich c Dhawan b Kumar 18 (60m 38b 2x4 0x6) SR: 47.36

Match Coverage

All Match News

Big win

2

No. of bigger wins in terms of runs for India outside Asia, before this 237-run win. They had won by 279 runs at Headingley in 1986 and by 272 runs in Auckland 1967-68.

Fifty at last

9

No. of inns without a 50+ score for Bravo at home, before this inns. He was dismissed in scores of 10 to 30 in 7 of those inns.

Bravo's game

45.54

Bravo's average in the 4th inns of Tests, before this match. He averages better only in 3rd inns, marginally, 46.47.

Can West Indies repeat?

88.1

Overs batted by West Indies on the fifth day in the last Test, losing just 2 wickets, to draw the Test. They are set 346 runs to win in 87 overs today.

How much more?

298

Highest score by West Indies in 4th inns vs India at home, in St John's, 2006. The lead has already gone past 340 for India now.

Ro-hit

113.33

Rohit Sharma's strike rate off his last 30 balls till end of play, in which he scored 34 runs with 3 sixes. He had made just 7 runs off his first 27 balls with only a four.

India's No. 3 woes

24.74

Average of India's batsmen at No. 3 in Tests since Jan 2014 - worst among all teams. Excluding WI, Ban and Zim, all the other teams' No. 3 average 40+.

Bhuvi's turn-around

51

No. of balls in which Bhuvneshwar took his five-wickets. In his first 91 balls, he was wicket-less.

Handy contributions at top

2012

Last time West Indies' top-5 all scored 20 or more in a Test inns at home, before this match - vs Aus, Bridgetown. Last time vs India at home was in 1996-97, Kingston.

Long time ago

23

No. of inns for West Indies against India without their top-2 wickets adding 50 or more runs, before this. Their last such inns was in Basseterre in 2006.

Some start

35

West Indies's highest opening stand in Tests since start of 2015 in 26 inns, before this. Johnson-Brathwaite have added more than 50 runs in this inns.

Collapsed at end

14

Runs added by India's last 4 wickets after Ashwin-Saha's stand. India lost their last 5 wickets in 48 balls.