2nd Test: Gill’s 129 powers India; Jadeja spins Windies into trouble

NEW DELHI: India's spinners dominated West Indies successful the 2nd Test match, maintaining their beardown presumption aft skipper Shubman Gill's awesome period connected Saturday. West Indies ended the time astatine 140-4, trailing India by 378 runs astatine Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium.Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja claimed 3 wickets, with Shai Hope scoring 31 and Tevin Imlach connected 14 remaining astatine the crease astatine stumps.Gill demonstrated exceptional enactment with an unbeaten 129, marking his 5th period of the twelvemonth successful 8 Tests. This came aft Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 175 aboriginal successful the 2nd day.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!West Indies began their effect to India's declared full of 518-5 with Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Alick Athanaze showing little resistance, scoring 34 and 41 respectively earlier their dismissals.Jadeja dismissed Chanderpaul erstwhile KL Rahul caught his borderline astatine slip. Kuldeep Yadav past removed Athanaze, followed by Roston Chase's duck successful the adjacent implicit disconnected Jadeja's bowling.Hope continued batting aft surviving a adjacent lbw appeal, which India unsuccessfully reviewed.John Campbell's innings ended astatine 10 runs erstwhile Sai Sudharsan made a singular drawback astatine guardant short-leg, utilizing his helmet, chest, and hands portion ducking for cover.

Gill, who resumed astatine 20, displayed awesome batting skills with 16 fours and 2 sixes successful his tenth Test century. He reached his 100 with 3 runs disconnected Khary Pierre's bowling.A 102-run concern developed betwixt Gill and Dhruv Jurel, who scored 44. Their speedy scoring aft luncheon accrued unit connected the West Indies team.The time began with Jaiswal's run-out astatine 175, adding conscionable 2 runs to his overnight score.

A miscommunication with Gill led to his dismissal erstwhile attempting a azygous to mid-off.Gill maintained his composure and formed a 91-run concern with Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored 43 earlier falling to Jomel Warrican's bowling.India clasp a commanding presumption to triumph the two-match bid aft securing triumph successful the archetypal Test by an innings.