Resuming at the overnight score of 264 for five, India posted a total of 418 runs before reducing West Indies to a pitiable situation.
KL Rahul (2L) and Rishabh Pant (R) look on as Virat Kohli (L) gives the ball to Jasprit Bumrah (2R) of India during day 2 of the 2nd Test between West Indies and India at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, on August 31, 2019. (Photo by Randy Brooks / AFP)
Riding on a hat-trick from ace bowler Jasprit Bumrah, India reduced the West Indies to 87 for 7 after piling up 416 runs.
Before the exhibition from Bumrah, Hanuma Vihari scored a maiden ton to take the visitors to a commanding position in the second Test against the West Indies at the Sabina Park in Jamaica.
Bumrah became only the third Indian after Harbhajan Singh in 2001 and Irfan Pathan in 2006 to bag a hat-trick in the white-ball cricket.
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The pace spearhead ended Day 2 with the figures of 6 for 16 producing a lethal opening spell and rattling the West Indies by picking up the first five wickets, three of which came in successive balls in the ninth over to leave West Indies tottering at 87 for seven at stumps.
West Indies still trail India by 329 runs with three full days play remaining.
Earlier, Vihari scored a career-best 111 off 225 balls with the help of 16 boundaries to held India’s innings together with Ishant Sharma (57 off 80 balls), who scored his maiden fifty. Vihari shared a 112-run stand with Ishant for the eighth wicket to take India to the driving seat.
Resuming at the overnight score of 264 for five, India posted a total of 418 runs before reducing West Indies to a pitiable situation.
Brief Scores:
India 1st Innings: 416 all out in 140.1 overs (Hanuma Vihari 111, Virat Kohli 76; Jason Holder 5/77, Rahkeem Cornwall 3/105).
West Indies 1st innings: 87 for 7 in 33 overs (Shimron Hetmyer 34; Jasprit Bumrah 6/16)
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