India v West Indies: 2nd Test – India seal series with an innings victory
India crushed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Thursday, November 17, 2011.
Today’s victory means that India have now won the series by 2-0 and even if they go onto lose the final game, the overall result of the series will remain the same.
West Indies will be extremely disappointed with the result of this Test, as they played poor cricket overall.
The team fought hard in the first Test of the series, but lost it by five wickets in the end. They would have been confident of at least putting up a solid fight in this game as well, but ended up losing it by an innings.
The main reason behind West Indies’ loss in this match was a dismal first innings performance, as the entire team was dismissed for 153 runs.
Although the batting conditions in Kolkata were perfect, the tourists failed to capitalise. They played irresponsible cricket and were forced to follow on, as the Men in Blue gained a first innings lead of 478 runs.
Batting first, the hosts had scored 631 runs for the loss of seven wickets before skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 declared.
There were three centuries scored in the Indian innings by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 and the captain Dhoni. They scored 176, 119 and 144 respectively.
However, none of the tourists’ batsmen managed to make an impression in the first innings with the highest score of 30 from middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DM-Bravo-c1386.
The Caribbean Kings displayed a much better performance in their second outing, but it was a little too late for them, as the massive first innings deficit proved to be too much.
West Indies scored 463 runs in their second innings, courtesy a magnificent century from Bravo. The stylish left-handed batsman ended up with 136 runs, but the effort was not enough to guide the team towards safety.
India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PP-Ojha-c2198, who bagged six overall.
However, veteran batsman Laxman was named man of the match for his unbeaten ton in the first innings.
The final Test of the series will be played in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820, starting from Tuesday, November 22.
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