Jaiswal and Kohli take India’s lead to 250

Lunch India 400 for 4 (Kohli 72*, Jadeja 21*) lead West Indies 150 by 250 runs

West Indies had the chance to dismiss Kohli within the sixth over of the day, when Jomel Warrican received him to push uppishly in the direction of further cowl however Brathwaite dropped the catch. Kohli was on 40 on the time and he needed to work laborious for his runs. It took him 147 balls to deliver up his half-century, his third slowest in Check cricket.

Joseph changed Holder as quickly as he was eligible to bowl and by then Jaiswal was seeking to rating rapidly. He uppercut Joseph over backward level for 4 to deliver up the 100-run partnership with Kohli, after which skipped down the bottom to launch Warrican for a straight six.

Joseph then pulled his size again, bowled 5 successive dot balls to Jaiswal, and had him caught behind with the sixth because the left-hander regarded to punch off the again foot.

Ajinkya Rahane didn’t account for the slowness of the pitch and fell for 3, chipping Kemar Roach’s first ball of the morning to cowl.

The run-scoring grew to become barely simpler when, round 25 minutes earlier than lunch, Brathwaite deployed Alick Athanaze’s spin from one finish and himself from the opposite. Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja used that window to attain a few boundaries every, and took India to 400 for 4 on the stroke of lunch.