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<\/p>\nIndia completed a dominant 2-0 series whitewash over the West Indies with a seven-wicket victory in the second Test in Delhi.<\/p>\n
KL Rahul’s unbeaten 58 and Sai Sudharsan’s 39 off 76 balls saw India chase down 121 for victory before lunch to hand Shubman Gill his first series win as captain.<\/p>\n
India wrapped up the series opener in Ahmedabad within three days and seized control of the second Test by piling on 518-5 before declaring.<\/p>\n
West Indies crumbled for 248 in their first innings but, after being forced to follow on, they responded with a spirited second-innings effort.<\/p>\n
Inspired by centuries from John Campbell and Shai Hope, the West Indies posted 390 all out to extend the match to the final day.<\/p>\n
India resumed their chase on day five at 63-1 and needed just an hour to reach the target, though West Indies snatched two wickets through outstanding catches.<\/p>\n
Captain Roston Chase removed Sudharsan, with Hope diving low in the slips, while Gill (13) miscued a shot off Rose, and Justin Greaves sprinted from midwicket to take a swirling catch.<\/p>\n
That was the last twist, as Rahul struck the winning boundary to seal India’s victory.<\/p>\n
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\n Indian players celebrate with the trophy after their series whitewash over the West Indies<\/p>\n
Gill savours first series win<\/p>\n
India captain Shubman Gill: “Captaincy is a really big honour, I would say I’m getting used to it.<\/p>\n
“Managing all the players and leading this team is a great honour. It’s about taking the right options based on game situations and I try to make the one with the best probabilities.”<\/p>\n
Positives in defeat for West Indies<\/p>\n
West Indies captain Roston Chase: “The positives for us in this match were that Campbell and Hope played well and scored hundreds.<\/p>\n
“We batted 100 overs first time in a long time and took the game to a fifth day. We were trying to find ways to bat 80 overs and came up with ideas to play spin.<\/p>\n
“We have some of the best players, we have to use experience from here as a stepping stone and do well going forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India completed a dominant 2-0 series whitewash over the West Indies with a seven-wicket victory in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}