Scorer: Gopi Rangarajan | Commentator: Sidharth Monga
That then brings us to the end of my contribution to the coverage of this Tests. Sriram Veera is still unbeaten, though, and will write in from Jamaica. Until the next Test, this is Sidharth Monga saying so long, and thanks for all the fish
Time for the presentation
MS Dhoni: "I always believe our lower order can perform with the bat, and our part-timers can take wickets. We consider all XI as batsmen. Bhajji batted really well with Raina. PK is a very skilful bowler, and if there is anything for him he will make full use. That's the main reason he got six wickets in this game. The spinners bowled decently, they can improve the line of attack. They can get slightly better. of course it was a bit difficult to bowl with the breeze."
Rahul Dravid is the MoM. He says, "The pitch in 2006 was a lot more difficult. This was a great cricket wicket, that one had lots of shooters and lifters. Kudos to the groundmen. It's a challenge to play Test cricket without warm-ups, but nowadays Test tours are so tight that you don't even have side games. A bit disappointed with my shot in the first innings. Enjoying it as much as ever. Days like this, that's what you play for." Never says the wrong words
Darren Sammy first of all "Showed again today if we bat properly, we can come out victorious. The bowling has been delivering, we need to bat well as a unit. We as batsmen when we got out there we have to focus and be mentally tougher, play the situation, think of the team... We didn't bowl as well as we should have to Harbhajan, and he came out and played very positive, and we reacted too late. That said, we restricted them to 246. As a batting unit, we need to do better... Bishoo has been a good asset. Can't fault the effort of the bowlers. Ravi and Fidel came out and kept doing the job too."
Wise words from Sammy, especially about the batting
Dhoni has now won 15 Tests as India's captain. Only Ganguly, with 21, has more. He carries a stump too. It's a splendid effort after they were 80-odd for 6 on the first morning. For West Indies, as usual, it is a case of those small what-ifs. Oh well. Siddarth Ravindran's Bulletin will soon be up
D Bishoo b Raina 26 (36m 33b 2x4 1x6) SR: 78.78
On comes Raina, who was smart yesterday in bowling a lot of straighter ones, which should be the thing to do when the pitch is turning too much. The other two specialist spinners have simply turned the ball too much to get edges
World-beaters? Us? Could you take the beating part out, it's so violent
One of India's brightest young talents looks back on what he regards as the key formative experience of his career, how he got his act together, and the West Indies tour
In the last four years he has been a model of consistency. The only slight problem is his stats in the first Test of a series
Daryl Harper has rebuked the ICC's failure to take any action against India captain MS Dhoni for criticising his umpiring decisions in the first Test against West Indies
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the West Indies batsman, has rated his unbeaten 116 against India in Dominica as one of his finest Test innings
