India has established tremendous dominance in the ongoing first Test match against the West Indies. At the end of the second day, they have a first innings lead of 162 runs with eight wickets still in hand. Former captain Yashasvi Jaiswal is in strong position after scoring 143 on debut Virat Kohli He is giving good support by scoring 36 runs in 96 balls. Despite India being in a strong position, it got off to a slow start.
Not that he was not in control of his innings, but the slow nature of the pitch caused the Indian batsmen to play some struggling Test cricket that day. Things started very slowly for Kohli and he could not hit a single boundary in 80 balls. In the 101st over of the innings, he was successful in playing a brilliant cover drive on the 81st ball off left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican.
This shot took India to 300 runs in the first innings. However, what happened later took everyone by surprise as Virat Kohli celebrated the moment while looking towards the dressing room. Perhaps, he too wanted to get off the block early and the boundary would have come at the right time for him and the team.
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It was a day of records as far as matches are concerned Rohit Sharma And Yashasvi Jaiswal shared a record partnership of 229 runs for the first wicket. It was the first time in the history of Test cricket for India that they took a lead in the first innings with all wickets in hand. This partnership proved to be the highest partnership for India vs West Indies in Tests. Rohit and Jaiswal are the sixth opening pair for India and the first since 2015 to score a century in an overseas Test.