India defeated West Indies with one day to spare in Antigua.
Team India secured their first points in the two-match Test series against West Indies after an emphatic 318 runs win on Sunday at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound in Antigua.
While chasing the target of 419 runs, the Windies kept on losing wickets at regular intervals as Indian pacers started to dominate the scene from the first ball onwards.
It was Jusprit Bumrah who initiated an early breakthrough by dismissing Kraigg Brathwaite for one run in the second over. Windies then lost John Campbell and Shamarh Brooks back-to-back as their score showed 10/3.
As both teams went in for tea, the Indian pacers had already sent half of the Windies batting team back to Pavillion with Ishant Sharma removing Shimron Hetmyer for one run just before the umpires called for the break.
Things did not get better even after that as Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah kept raining hell on the Caribbean batsmen.
On the day, Bumrah was exceptional with the ball as he picked up five wickets for his troubles and gave away just seven runs in the eight overs that he bowled. Other than him, Shami and Sharma bagged two and three wickets each respectively as West Indies folded for 100 after 26.5 overs.
Earlier today, India started day their day four action with a healthy lead of 260 runs. But they lost skipper Virat Kohli(51) to Roston Chase's wicket delivery in the 73rd over.
That loss did not cause the Blues too much harm as Hanuman Vihari came in to bat and settled in quickly.
Ajinkya Rahane kept batting sensibly and scored his 10th Test century for India.
Vihari also stepped up big time and scored his half-century on the day as the pair started building a formidable partnership between them.
Towards the end of the innings, both Vihari and Rahane got dismissed in quick succession. Gabriel removed Rahane while batting on 102 whereas Windies skipper Jason Holder picked Vihari's wicket on 93.
Rishabh Pant also made a brief appearance for India with the bat but his bad form for the national side continued as his poorly struck pull shot found the safe hands of Keemo Paul-- who came on as a substitute fielder for West Indies.
India were 243/7 when Virat Kohli decided to call back his batsmen and handed over a target of 419 runs to the Windies to chase down who failed miserably. After winning the T20I and ODI series, the tourists now lead 1-0 in the two-match Test series as well.
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